Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Aéroport international Macdonald-Cartier d'Ottawa |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | CYOW |
IATA code | YOW |
Coordinates | |
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
- 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
year | Passenger volume | Air freight ( tons ) | Commercial flight movements |
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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
- Airport homepage (English / French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Brief History. YOW.ca, accessed on August 15, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e Annual Reports. YOW.ca, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 2017 Ottawa International Airport Economic Impact Assessment. YOW.ca, accessed on August 15, 2018 .
- ^ Trillium Line South. (pdf) stage2lrt.ca, accessed on November 29, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Destinations. YOW.ca, accessed on August 15, 2018 .
- ^ Accident report DC-8-54 CF-TJM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 25, 2020.