Name: Domestic and international itinerant movements, by type of operation, at airports with NAV CANADA services and other selected airports, monthly
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Domestic and international itinerant movements, by type of operation, at airports with NAV CANADA services and other selected airports, monthly — AI AnalysisThis Statistics Canada dataset (Table 23100302) tracks 84 months of monthly itinerant aircraft movements across 129 Canadian airports from January 2019 to December 2025, encompassing over 152 million cumulative movements across 2,709 unique time series. The data is heavily right-skewed, with a handfKey Findings

The dataset spans 84 months (January 2019–December 2025) and contains 227,556 records across 129 airports, 3 movement types, and 7 operation types, totalling over 152 million cumulative itinerant movements.

The distribution is heavily right-skewed, with a median of just 49 movements per record versus a mean of 1,420, and 75% of all records falling at or below 343 movements — confirming that a small number of major hubs dominate national traffic.

Domestic movements are the largest category by far, with a mean of 1,933 and a maximum of 390,712, while transborder and other international movements have medians of only 7–8, indicating minimal international activity at most airports.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the single most dramatic anomaly in the dataset, with total movements collapsing from a peak of 390,712 in July 2019 to just 95,846 in April 2020 — a decline of more than 75% — before gradually recovering through 2022–2025.

All operation types are very strongly correlated with one another (r = 0.967–1.000), indicating that movements across commercial, government civil, and military categories rise and fall together, driven by shared seasonal and economic forces.

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