Ken hAAmer

... does Air Canada operate on a typical day.

Or perhaps a better indication... how many transborder flights a week does Air Canada operate?

I'm interested in the total number, as in YVR-SEA return would be counted as 2 flights.

Just a long standing curiousity.

emcampbe

I'm assuming you mean AC and Jazz combined (since YVR-SEA is operated exclusively by Jazz).

RockoHorse

http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/me...usnetwork.html

Air Canada in the United States

With its regional affiliate Jazz, Air Canada operates up to 446 non-stop flights per day on 87 routes to and from 62 U.S. and eight Canadian airports.

Within Canada, the carriers operate over 985 non-stop flights per day on 130 routes to and from 62 Canadian airports. With hubs in four major Canadian cities - Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Montreal - Air Canada provides convenient connections to its extensive international network flying directly into 54 cities in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America.

Ken hAAmer

Ah, thanks very much. Never thought about looking there.

Now, for the really tricky question... how many trans-border flights in total - all airlines - on a given day or week.

CdnFlier

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/51-209-...1/t019-eng.htm

According to Statscan there were 422,012 itinerant (flights from one airport to another) transborder aircraft movements in 2009 (at airports with NAV CANADA towers and flight service stations). That's a -4.5% decrease from 2008, and makes up 10% of the total Canadian aircraft movements in 2009. Not quite sure if it's 100% accurate to divide that by 365 and get a daily average but for what its worth it would imply ~1150 transborder flights/day.


Otherwise.. you could visit the websites of the 10-20 airports that have transborder flights and just do a quick count...

Added after (all are itinerant movements):
Year Domestic Transborder Other Int'l Total
1993 2,504,434 268,530 55,029 2,827,993
1994 2,606,317 272,815 55,663 2,934,795
1995 2,706,037 314,698 59,597 3,080,332
1996 2,712,723 346,713 63,270 3,122,706
1997 2,806,552 365,978 65,805 3,238,335
1998 3,085,342 410,404 69,319 3,565,065
1999 3,079,554 411,241 68,773 3,559,568
2000 2,857,810 444,545 72,193 3,374,548
2001 2,815,937 439,608 77,395 3,332,940
2002 2,604,605 420,165 75,947 3,100,717
2003 2,674,373 415,542 79,890 3,169,805
2004 2,682,798 429,506 93,222 3,205,526
2005 2,707,634 436,378 103,347 3,247,359
2006 2,795,459 432,745 106,632 3,334,836
2007* 2,544,696 440,967 112,857 3,098,520
2008* 2,639,623 439,711 118,612 3,197,946
2009* 2,604,310 422,012 121,149 3,147,471

* FWIW These years were manually added up from Statscan TP-577 reports

And because it's interesting to see how far off projections can be...
2010 2,815,988 623,661 172,451 3,612,100 (**estimated by Transport Canada in 2007)

Table data from:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/policy/repor...ts-2-1472.html
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/policy/repor...look-1247.html
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-c...opg=1&lang=eng