Number of flights in and out of Canadian airports up 2.7% in May

July 30, 2025

Statistics Canada reports that aircraft movements at Canada's major and select small airports totalled 560,048 in May 2025, up 2.7% from the previous year. Local movements rose 7.6% year over year, while itinerant movements edged up 0.5%.

Domestic itinerant movements edged up 0.9% year over year in May. Other international traffic (outside the United States) grew 1.2% from the same month of the previous year to 15,707.

In contrast, transborder activity (to and from the United States) recorded a second consecutive month of year-over-year decline in May, down 3.1% to 36,442 movements.