Statistics Canada reports that Canada's major and select small airports recorded a total of 380,486 aircraft movements in January, up 19.6% from January 2024. Local movements jumped 44.2% year over year to 114,564 in January 2025, while total itinerant movements rose 11.5% to 265,922.

Itinerant domestic movements rose 14.2% year over year to 214,512 in January, driven by other commercial operations including flight school activity.

Following two consecutive months of year-over-year declines, transborder movements (to and from the United States) in January edged up 0.8% from the previous year to 32,401. Other international traffic (outside the United States) rose 1.9% to 19,009.

The seven Canadian Level I air carriers flew 6.9 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in January, compared with 6.8 million in the same month of 2024.

The number of passenger-kilometres in January 2025 was 19.0 billion, a 2.2% increase from January 2024, while capacity reached 23.5 billion available seat-kilometres, up 4.9%.

 

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