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September/October 2000 issue |
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FEATURE
Facts of flight
Although there are 726 certified airports in Canada,
94% of all air passengers and cargo are handled at only 26 of
them
Canadian airports process nearly 80 million air passengers
a year
Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport is Canada’s
busiest, handling 23 million passengers a year
There are 5 million aircraft take-offs and landings every
year, and nearly 400,000 take place at Pearson
760 million kilograms of cargo are transported to and from
Canada by air every year
Canadian planes consume 5.3 billion litres of aircraft fuel
a year
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