Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Aéroport international Macdonald-Cartier d'Ottawa
Characteristics
ICAO code	CYOW
IATA code	YOW
Coordinates	45 ° 19 ′ 21 ″  N , 75 ° 40 ′ 9 ″  W Coordinates: 45 ° 19 ′ 21 ″  N , 75 ° 40 ′ 9 ″  W
Height above MSL	114 m (374  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	7 miles south of Ottawa
Street	Airport Parkway
Local transport	OC Transpo bus route 97
Basic data
opening	July 26, 1928
operator	Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Authority
Terminals	1
Passengers	5,106,487 (2019)
Air freight	21,070 (2017)
Flight movements	75,799 (2019)
Employees	10,776 (2017)
Runways
04/22	1006 m × 23 m asphalt
07/25	2438 m × 61 m asphalt
14/32	3048 m × 61 m asphalt

The Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport ( French: Aéroport international Macdonald-Cartier d'Ottawa ) is the international airport of the Canadian capital Ottawa .

The airport was named in June 1993 in honor of the two fathers of the Canadian alliance, John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier . In 2019, approximately 5.1 million passengers were recorded on 75,799 commercial aircraft movements.

Location and transport links

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport is eleven kilometers south of downtown Ottawa.

It will be connected to downtown Ottawa via the Airport Parkway . The connection with public transport is ensured by an express bus line from OC Transpo . For the future, the connection of the airport to the O-Train light rail system is being considered.

Airlines and Destinations

The Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport does not have the high importance for international air traffic compared to the airports in Montreal or Toronto . Flights are predominantly within Canada and the neighboring USA :

Airport facilities

Runways

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport currently has runways with lengths of 2,438 and 3,048 meters , both are 61 meters wide. There is also another, small runway, but this is without lights and is therefore mainly used by general aviation with small aircraft, e.g. B. Cessna used.

Radio frequencies

Radiotelephony

ATIS (English)

121.15 MHz

ATIS (French)

132.95 MHz

Clearance delivery

119.4 MHz

Ground control

121.9 MHz

Tower

118.8 MHz

terminal

127.7 MHz

Montreal Center (Arrivals)

135.15 MHz

Montreal Center (Departures)

128.175 MHz

Radio navigation

Control tower

VOT

111.8

NDB

Ottawa (OW) 236 kHz (rwy 25); Moody (ZOW) 334 kHz (rwy 07); Greely (YRR) 377 kHz (rwy 32)

IN FRONT

Ottawa (YOW) 114.6 MHz Ch 93

DME

Ottawa (IOW) 109.5 MHz Ch 32

ILS

IOW 109.5 MHz (rwy 07), IRP 110.3 MHz (rwy 32)

Traffic figures

Source: Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Authority

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport traffic figures 1991-2019

year	Passenger volume			Air freight ( tons )	Commercial flight movements
	National	International	total
2019	3,993,553	1,112,934	5,106,487		75,799
2018	4,002,209	1,108,592	5,110,801		77,728
2017	3,813,672	1,026,005	4,839,677	21,070	74,755
2016	3,679,232	1,063,859	4,743,091	20,864	74,345
2015	3,488,629	1,167,731	4,656,360	23,408	75.107
2014	3,434,209	1,182,239	4,616,448	22,974	78,073
2013	3,363,685	1,214,906	4,578,591	23,796	83,567
2012	3,454,387	1,231,569	4,685,956	25,326	90,697
2011	3,429,310	1,195,316	4,624,626	24963	90,949
2010	3,303,170	1,170,724	4,473,894	21,412	86.009
2009	3,141,812	1,091,018	4,232,830	19,705	81,120
2008	3,255,540	1,083,684	4,339,225	20,086	79,777
2007	3,052,813	1,035,715	4,088,528	22,670	72,342
2006	2,807,377	1,000,379	3,807,756	19,661	65,396
2005	2,779,895	955,538	3,735,433	20,131	66,146
2004	2,736,779	873.106	3,609,885	18,471	69,626
2003	2,491,691	770.654	3,262,345	21,348	69,798
2002	2,445,770	771.116	3,216,886	22,553	68,499
2001	2,625,630	765.665	3,391,295	19,745	72,630
2000	2,562,282	872.063	3,434,345	-	78,301
1999	2,426,288	785.319	3,211,607	-	81,808
1998	2,414,355	696.193	3,110,548		77.202
1997	2,435,534	610.834	3,046,368	-	67,867
1996	2,223,941	633.897	2,857,838	-	-
1991	-	-	2,420,421	-	68,000

Incidents

• On May 19, 1967 rolled out a Douglas DC-8F-54 of Air Canada (CF TJM) on a training flight landing at the Ottawa International Airport to the side and crashed in inverted flight to the ground. All three crew members were killed. In the investigation report, the flight accident investigators accused the crew of having carried out a flight training maneuver under conditions that made it impossible to maintain control of the machine (see also the accident involving a Douglas DC-8 operated by Air Canada near Ottawa ) .

Web links

Commons : Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airport homepage (English / French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Brief History. YOW.ca, accessed on August 15, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Annual Reports. YOW.ca, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} North America Airport Rankings. (No longer available online.) ACI-NA.org , archived from the original on September 6, 2018 ; accessed on August 21, 2020 (English). 
4. ↑ 2017 Ottawa International Airport Economic Impact Assessment. YOW.ca, accessed on August 15, 2018 . 
5. ^ Trillium Line South. (pdf) stage2lrt.ca, accessed on November 29, 2015 (English). 
6. ↑ Destinations. YOW.ca, accessed on August 15, 2018 . 
7. ^ Accident report DC-8-54 CF-TJM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 25, 2020.