Name: Operating and financial statistics for major Canadian airlines, monthly
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Operating and financial statistics for major Canadian airlines, monthly — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Table 23100079 provides 44 years of monthly operating and financial data for major Canadian airlines (1981–2025), tracking 11 key metrics across 4,648 records that reveal long-term growth in capacity, revenues, and passenger demand. Total operating revenues averaged $934 million Key Findings

Total operating revenues averaged $934 million per month — the highest financial metric tracked — while total operating expenses averaged $479 million monthly over the 44-year period.

Available seat-kilometres averaged 18.3 billion (thousands) per month, reflecting decades of substantial capacity expansion by major Canadian carriers.

Load factor remained consistently efficient, averaging 78% across all 540 monthly periods from 1981 to 2025, indicating stable seat utilization over the long term.

COVID-19 caused a 71% drop in passenger numbers from 2019 to 2020, with April 2020 recording an all-time low of just 213 passengers, compared to the all-time high of 8,463 in August 2018.

The most extreme statistical outlier in the dataset is Goods tonne-kilometres in October 1998, with a z-score of 12.58, suggesting an extraordinary and isolated cargo event far outside historical norms.

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