Toronto Pearson International Airport

Toronto Pearson International Airport

Aéroport international Pearson de Toronto
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerTransport Canada
OperatorGreater Toronto Airports Authority
ServesGreater Toronto
LocationMalton, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
OpenedAugust 29, 1938 (1938-08-29)
Hub for
Focus city for
Operating base for
Time zoneEST (UTC−05:00)
 • Summer (DST)EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL569 ft / 173 m
Coordinates43°40′36″N 079°37′50″W / 43.67667°N 79.63056°W / 43.67667; -79.63056
Public transit access Pearson station
Websitewww.torontopearson.com
Maps
FAA airport diagram from 2004, which shows the old Aeroquay 1, the then-new Terminal 1, the former Terminal 2, Terminal 3, and the Infield Terminal
FAA airport diagram from 2004, which shows the old Aeroquay 1, the then-new Terminal 1, the former Terminal 2, Terminal 3, and the Infield Terminal
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 11,120 3,389 Asphalt
06L/24R 9,697 2,956 Asphalt
06R/24L 9,000 2,743 Asphalt
15L/33R 11,050 3,368 Asphalt
15R/33L 9,088 2,770 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers44.8 million
Aircraft movements338,577
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[3]
Environment Canada[4]
Transport Canada[5]
Movements from Statistics Canada[6]
Toronto Pearson Traffic Summary[7]

Toronto Pearson International Airport (IATA: YYZ, ICAO: CYYZ; originally Malton Airport, simply Toronto Pearson or Pearson, and officially Lester B. Pearson International Airport) is an international airport located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the main airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and the surrounding region known as the Golden Horseshoe. The airport is named in honour of Lester B. Pearson, who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968) and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his humanitarian work in peacekeeping.[8]

Toronto Pearson is located 22.5 kilometres (14.0 mi) northwest of Downtown Toronto with the majority of the airport situated in Mississauga and a small portion of the airfield, along Silver Dart Drive north of Renforth Drive, extending into Toronto's western district of Etobicoke.[9] It has five runways and two passenger terminals along with numerous cargo and maintenance facilities on a site that covers 1,867 hectares (4,613 acres).[10]

Pearson is the largest and busiest airport in Canada, handling 36.3 million passengers in 2022.[11][12] As of 2019, it was the second-busiest international air passenger gateway in North America and the 29th-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic.[11]

Toronto Pearson is the primary hub for Air Canada.[13] It also serves as a hub for WestJet, cargo airline FedEx Express, and as a base of operations for Air Transat and Sunwing Airlines. Toronto Pearson is operated by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) as part of Transport Canada's National Airports System.[14] The airport also maintains facilities for United States border preclearance.[15]

An extensive network of non-stop domestic flights is operated from Toronto Pearson by several airlines to all major and many secondary cities across all provinces and territories of Canada.[16] Since 2014, over 75 airlines operated around 1,250 daily departures from the airport to more than 180 destinations across five continents.[17][18][19]

  1. ^ Liu, Jim. "Porter Airlines".
  2. ^ "Porter Airlines Outlines Embraer E195-E2 Toronto Pearson Network from Feb 2023".
  3. ^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Synoptic/Metstat Station Information". Archived from the original on June 27, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  5. ^ "Airport Divestiture Status Report". Tc.gc.ca. January 12, 2011. Archived from the original on February 23, 2007. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
  6. ^ "Aircraft movements, by class of operation and peak hour and peak day of movements, for airports with NAV CANADA towers, monthly". Stats Canada. June 27, 2018. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  7. ^ "GTAA reports 2021 annual results". torontopearson.com. March 24, 2022. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  8. ^ "Lester B. Pearson". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca.
  9. ^ "Chapter 14: Land Use" (PDF). The Airport Master Plan (2000–2020). Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 28, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2012. The Airport occupies some 1,867 ha (4,613 acres) and is adjacent to Highway 401, the main east/west highway route through southern Ontario and the busiest highway in North America. The bulk of the Airport (1,824 ha 4,507 acres) is within the City of Mississauga with 43 ha (106 acres) located within the City of Toronto.
  10. ^ "Chapter 6: Passenger Terminals" (PDF). Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2018. Retrieved July 23, 2018. Toronto Pearson now operates two main passenger terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.
  11. ^ a b "ATR 2022" (PDF). panynj.gov. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  12. ^ "About Toronto Pearson". Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Archived from the original on June 19, 2018. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  13. ^ "About Air Canada – Corporate Profile". Aircanada.com. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016. Retrieved July 24, 2018. Air Canada's four hubs, Toronto (YYZ), the primary global hub, Montreal (YUL), the gateway to French international markets, Vancouver (YVR), the airline's premier gateway to Asia Pacific, and Calgary (YYC), offer Air Canada customers smooth connections under one roof.
  14. ^ "Airports in the national airports category (Appendix A)". Transport Canada. December 16, 2012. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
  15. ^ "Preclearance Locations – U.S. Customs and Border Protection". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  16. ^ "Airlines & Destinations: Canadian Destinations". Torontopearson.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  17. ^ "TORONTO PEARSON – AIRPORT 101" (PDF). Torontopearson.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 30, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  18. ^ "Airlines and Destinations: International Destinations". Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  19. ^ "Airlines and Destinations: US Destinations". Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.

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