Domestic and international itinerant movements, by geography, airports with NAV CANADA services and other selected airports, monthly — AI AnalysisCanadian airport itinerant movements show strong post-pandemic recovery from January 2022 to December 2025, with transborder and international movements growing 70.5% and 80.6% respectively, while domestic movements remain dominant but have declined from their peak of 371,486 to 198,125 monthly moveKey Findings

Domestic movements are the largest category, peaking at 371,486 monthly movements before declining to a current level of 198,125 — a significant drop likely reflecting post-pandemic normalization and seasonal effects.

Transborder (US-Canada) movements grew 70.5% over the dataset period, reaching 32,086 monthly movements, while Other International movements posted the strongest relative growth at 80.6%, reaching 20,174 per month.

The dataset is heavily right-skewed, with a mean of 12,668 but a median of only 1,253 movements, and an IQR of 6,848 — confirming that most airports handle modest traffic while a handful of major hubs dominate national volumes.

All three movement types are very strongly correlated, with Domestic and Total movements nearly perfectly aligned (r = 0.999), and even the weakest pairing — Domestic vs. Other International — showing a strong correlation of r = 0.908.

Only 4 statistical outliers were detected across the entire dataset using the IQR method, all occurring in the Transborder movements category, suggesting domestic and international movements remained within expected seasonal bounds throughout the period.

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