Name: Aircraft movements, by civil and military movements, airports with NAV CANADA services and other selected airports, monthly
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Aircraft movements, by civil and military movements, airports with NAV CANADA services and other selected airports, monthly — AI AnalysisThis Statistics Canada dataset (Table 23100297) tracks monthly aircraft movements across 127 Canadian airports from January 2022 to December 2025, revealing a heavily skewed distribution where a small number of major hubs dominate national traffic. Civil movements vastly outpace military activity, wKey Findings

The dataset covers 42,672 records across 127 airports and 889 unique time series, spanning 48 months from January 2022 to December 2025.

Aircraft movements are highly right-skewed: the mean of 4,005 movements is more than 16 times the median of 250, indicating that a handful of major hubs like Toronto and Vancouver drive the national totals.

Total civil movements is the dominant category, averaging 10,938 movements per period and reaching a maximum of 607,152, while military movements average just 136 — less than 1.5% of civil activity.

50% of all airport-month records fall between just 22 and 1,308 movements (IQR), confirming that most Canadian airports operate at relatively low traffic volumes compared to major hubs.

Seasonal patterns are clearly visible in the trend data, with aircraft movements consistently peaking in summer months and declining in winter across the full four-year period.

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