Montreal-Trudeau Airport

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Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal
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Characteristics
ICAO code CYUL
IATA code YUL
Coordinates

45 ° 28 '18 "  N , 73 ° 44' 12"  W Coordinates: 45 ° 28 '18 "  N , 73 ° 44' 12"  W.

Height above MSL 36 m (118  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 20 km west of Montréal
Street TCH / A 13 / A 20 / A 520
Local transport Bus :
STM Route 747
Basic data
opening 1941
operator Aéroports de Montréal (ADM)
surface 1325 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 20,305,106 (2019)
Air freight 107,660 t (2018)
Flight
movements
236,908 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year)
15,000,000
Employees 27,821 (2014)
Runways
06L / 24R 3353 m × 60 m concrete
06R / 24L 2926 m × 60 m concrete
10/28 2134 m × 60 m concrete

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The Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal ( IATA : YUL , ICAO : CYUL , English: Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Montréal-Trudeau for short ) is the busiest airport in the province of Québec and is measured by the number of passengers and Aircraft movements in Canada in third place (after Toronto-Pearson and Vancouver ). The airport used to be called “Aéroport international de Montréal-Dorval”. He is also a hub of Air Canada .

meaning

In 2014, 219,326 aircraft took off and landed in Montréal-Trudeau, carrying a total of 14,174,375 passengers (+ 4.9% compared to 2013). The airport is one of four hubs of Air Canada . Montréal-Trudeau is A380- compatible and was also served by this aircraft type as scheduled between May 2011 and October 2012 ( Air France flights from / to Paris-Charles de Gaulle ). Currently (September 2015) there are no regular A380 flights to Montréal-Trudeau, so Toronto-Pearson is the only Canadian airport that is served by this large Airbus. Another special feature is the equipment with two control towers.

About 130 destinations are served from Montréal, 35 of them in Canada. Lufthansa (from Frankfurt am Main and Munich) and Air Canada (to Frankfurt) offer non-stop flights between Montréal and Germany, while Austrian Airlines flies to Vienna-Schwechat. Connections with Switzerland all year round with Swiss (Zurich) and Air Canada (Geneva) and in summer Air Transat (Basel). Other year-round destinations in Europe are Belgium, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey. In Africa Algeria and Morocco, in Asia China, Jordan, Qatar, in America the USA, Mexico, Panama, Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean are served.

The airport is located in the Montreal suburb of Dorval . It can be reached by bus from downtown Montréal; including the Aérobus express bus from the central bus station and from large hotels in the city center. Regional and national bus companies offer connections to Québec (City) , Gatineau , Trois-Rivières and the Canadian capital Ottawa in Ontario.

history

The airport was opened on September 1, 1941 under the name “Aéroport international de Montréal-Dorval”. From the beginning it was equipped with three paved tracks. During the Second World War it was an important starting point for military supply flights to Europe. It then quickly developed into the most important civil airport in Canada. The number of one million passengers per year was already reached in the mid-1950s and the two million mark was reached in 1960.

The federal government of Canada under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau expected further rapid growth and fears that the airport would not have sufficient reserve space. It was therefore decided to build the completely new Aéroport international Montréal-Mirabel airport outside of Montreal on a total area of ​​392 km 2 . This airport opened on November 29, 1975. As a result, only national and US connections remained in Montréal-Dorval. The closure of Montréal-Dorval was also planned at the time.

At the beginning of the 1980s, however, it became clear that Mirabel Airport was developing into a gigantic bad investment for several reasons (see there) . Only gradually and since 1997, the international scheduled flights have been handled again via Montréal-Dorval. Mirabel became increasingly insignificant for passenger traffic and is now mainly used as a cargo airport.

With effect from January 1, 2004, the airport was renamed to its current name in honor of the former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

The airport tower

expansion

Since the year 2000 the airport has been extensively renovated, modernized and expanded with a budget of 716 million US dollars . In 2006, for example, the international “transboard terminal” for connections to the USA and the new international arrival complex were completed. In this terminal area there is already a dedicated area for flights to the USA, which is processed and checked by the US Coustoms and Border Protection (CBP), which enables a smooth transfer for connections to the USA without further controls when entering the USA. Further measures are being planned to increase the capacity from today's 15 million passengers to 20 million. There are also plans to build a rapid transit connection between the airport and the city center.

Traffic figures

Source: Aéroports de Montréal
Source: Aéroports de Montréal
Traffic figures from Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal 2008–2019
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons )
(with airmail)
Aircraft movements (
with military)
National International total
2019 7,192,116 13.112.990 20,305,106 236.908
2018 7,145,771 12,282,372 19,428,143 107,660 240.159
2017 6,919,682 11,245,471 18.165.153 110,667 234.258
2016 6,431,691 10.157.376 16,589,067 102,662 225.203
2015 5,874,944 9,642,438 15,517,382 88,967 219.128
2014 5,705,144 9,134,923 14,840,067 82,463 217,949
2013 5,408,671 8,686,654 14,095,325 84,426 -
2012 5,333,749 8,476,071 13,809,820 92.040 -
2011 5,225,786 8,443,043 13,668,829 93,800 -
2010 - - 12,971,229 112,000 -
2009 - - 12,224,534 85,567 -
2008 - - 12,813,320 -

Incidents

See also

Web links

Commons : Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Corporate. ADMTL.com , accessed May 1, 2018 .
  2. a b Aéroport international Montréal-Trudeau. (PDF, 1.6MB) YUL Horizon 2010. May 6, 2014, p. 19 , accessed on September 14, 2015 (French).
  3. a b c d e Statistics. ADMTL.com , accessed May 30, 2020 .
  4. ^ North America Airport Rankings. AirportsCouncil.org , accessed May 30, 2020 .
  5. Rolf Stünkel: Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport - Phoenix from the Ashes In: AERO International No. 05/2018, p. 31
  6. Economic impacts and fiscal activities of Montréal-Trudeau airport, 2015. ADMTL.com , May 1, 2015, accessed on May 1, 2018 .
  7. Where is the A380 flying? In: Airbus. July 2015, accessed September 12, 2015 .
  8. AUA has successfully accepted Montreal. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  9. Destinations directes. Season été 2015 (mars à octobre). In: Aéroports de Montréal. Retrieved September 12, 2015 (French).
  10. Navettes regionales. In: Aéroports de Montréal. Retrieved September 12, 2015 (French).
  11. ^ North America Airport Rankings. (No longer available online.) ACI-NA.org , archived from the original on September 6, 2018 ; accessed on October 29, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aci-na.org
  12. ^ Accident report DC-8-54 CF-TJN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 20, 2016.