Whitehorse Airport
| Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | CYXY |
| IATA code | YXY |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 706 m (2316 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 3 miles west of Whitehorse |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1942 |
| operator | Government of the Yukon Territory |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 336,433 (2016) |
| Flight movements |
32,338 (2016) |
| Runways | |
| 01/19 | 548 m × 23 m asphalt |
| 14R / 32L | 2896 m × 46 m asphalt |
| 14L / 32R | 1621 m × 30 m asphalt |
The Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport ( Whitehorse International Airport ) ( IATA : YXY ; ICAO : CYXY ) is located in Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory . It is operated by the government of the Yukon Territory. On December 15, 2008, the airport was renamed in honor of long-time member of the government, Erik Nielsen .
The airport was built by the Department of Transportation of the Yukon Government between 1940 and 1941 and handed over to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 as part of the Alaska-Siberia route during World War II . In 1968 the airport was closed for military purposes and from then on remained as a purely civil airport.
In addition to conventional scheduled air traffic, numerous smaller charter flight operators and bush pilots operate from Whitehorse Airport . The airport also serves as an important base for fire-fighting planes in the course of fighting forest fires .
In the entrance to the airport there is an old Douglas DC-3 of the Canadian Pacific Airlines on a pedestal , which today serves as a wind vane . It served the United States Army Air Forces in Southeast Asia during World War II before being sold for commercial aviation. An enlargement of the terminal building is planned in order to reduce the large number of international flights.
Whitehorse Airport is the home airport of Air North , based in the Yukon Territory , which flies to cities in the Yukon and (seasonal) Alaska as well as larger cities in western Canada ( Vancouver , Calgary , Edmonton ). In the summer until 2019, Condor also served direct flights to Whitehorse from Germany. WestJet (from Vancouver), Air Canada (from Vancouver) and Air Canada Jazz (seasonally from Calgary) also fly to Whitehorse Airport.
Web links
- Government of Yukon - Whitehorse International Airport (accessed November 23, 2017)
- Whitehorse Airport arrivals and departures (accessed September 10, 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Status Report of the Canadian Department of Transportation (accessed September 10, 2010)
- ↑ a b North America Airport Rankings. (No longer available online.) ACI-NA.org , archived from the original on September 6, 2018 ; accessed on November 23, 2017 (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.
- ^ "Yukon names airport after former MP Nielsen" (English, accessed on September 10, 2010)
- ↑ Whitehorse 1948–1968 (English, accessed September 10, 2010)
