Thunder Bay Airport Aéroport de Thunder Bay | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Transport Canada [1] | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Thunder Bay International Airports Authority | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Thunder Bay, Ontario | ||||||||||||||
Opened | 1938 | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | EST (UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−04:00) | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 654 ft / 199 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 48°22′19″N089°19′18″W / 48.37194°N 89.32167°W | ||||||||||||||
Public transit access | Thunder Bay Transit 14 | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Runways | |||||||||||||||
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Sources: Canada Flight Supplement [2] Environment Canada [3] Movements from Statistics Canada [4] Passengers from Thunder Bay Airport Authority Inc. [5] |
Thunder Bay Airport( IATA : YQT, ICAO : CYQT) is in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. With 108,130 aircraft movements in 2012, it was the fourth busiest airport in Ontario and the 16th busiest airport in Canada. [4] During the same year, more than 761,000 passengers went through the airport. [5]
The airport is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). CBSA officers at this airport can handle aircraft with up to 40 passengers. [2]
The reference of "International" in the name of the Thunder Bay International Airport Authority Inc. (TBIAAI) is used for business purposes only. The TBIAAI has not sought to receive official Canadian designation as "International", in accordance with all applicable domestic and international requirements as defined by ICAO Annex 9.
It was built as the Fort William Municipal Airport in 1938, partly as a means of relieving unemployment. [6]
During World War II, the Thunder Bay (then Fort William) airport was home to No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School, part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The airport was also used as a base for test flights of fighter aircraft being built at the nearby Canadian Car and Foundry factory.
Before the two cities of Fort William and Port Arthur merged, it was called the Canadian Lakehead Airport.
The airport went under major renovations in 1994 with the construction of a new airport terminal building, including two jetways, a large food court, a gift shop and an arcade.
The airport was handed over from the government in 1997 to the Thunder Bay International Airports Authority, a non-profit organization. The airport handled over 600,000 passengers in 2006 for the first time since 2001. [7]
The airport underwent a runway rehabilitation and upgrade in 2022, this was "the largest construction project undertaken in the history of the Airport Authority" [8]
In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed as RCAF & D of T Aerodrome - Fort William, Ontario at 48°22′N89°19′W / 48.367°N 89.317°W with a variation of 01 degrees east and elevation of 645 ft (197 m). Three runways were listed as follows: [9]
Runway name | Length | Width | Surface |
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14/32 | 4,000 ft (1,200 m) | 500 ft (150 m) | Turf |
9/27 | 3,990 ft (1,220 m) | 500 ft (150 m) | Turf |
4/22 | 4,000 ft (1,200 m) | 500 ft (150 m) | Turf |
A number of airlines served the airport with scheduled passenger jet service in the past from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. These air carriers along with the respective jetliner types they operated from the airfield are as follows:
According to various Official Airline Guide (OAG) editions as well as airline timetables, the majority of jet service operated by Canadian-based air carriers was nonstop or direct to Toronto and Winnipeg. U.S.-based North Central Airlines operated nonstop flights to Duluth with continuing no change of plane jet service to Chicago–O'Hare while successor Republic Airlines also flew nonstop to Duluth with continuing no change of plane jet service to Minneapolis/St. Paul and then on to Denver. [16] [18]
During the mid-1980s, three airlines were competing with nonstop service operated with mainline jet aircraft between Thunder Bay and Toronto: [10] Air Canada with Boeing 727-200 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 aircraft, Nordair with Boeing 737-200 aircraft and Pacific Western Airlines with Boeing 737-200 aircraft.
United Express served Chicago O'Hare International Airport from Thunder Bay from February 2013 to April 2014 using the Bombardier CRJ-200. This was the most recent flight offered from Thunder Bay to the United States. [19]
Airlines | Destinations |
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Air Canada | Toronto–Pearson |
Air Canada Express | Toronto–Pearson |
Air Canada Rouge | Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson |
Bearskin Airlines | Sault Ste. Marie, Sioux Lookout, Sudbury |
Flair Airlines | Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson |
North Star Air | Fort Hope/Eabametoong, Muskrat Dam, Neskantaga, Ogoki Post, Sachigo Lake, Sioux Lookout, Weagamow, Webequie |
Porter Airlines | Ottawa, Toronto–Billy Bishop, Toronto–Pearson [20] |
Sunwing Airlines | Seasonal: Cancún, Varadero |
Superior Airways | Charter: Red Lake |
Wasaya Airways | Sioux Lookout |
WestJet | Seasonal: Calgary |
WestJet Encore | Winnipeg |
On-demand charters include Air Bravo and Thunder Airlines.
Airlines | Destinations |
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Cargojet Airways | Winnipeg |
FedEx Feeder | Winnipeg |
Destinations map |
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Vehicles can reach the airport via Ontario Highway 61 and connections with Harbour Expressway and Ontario Highway 11 into Thunder Bay's core.
The parking lot contains 100 short-term spaces, 300 long-term spaces, curbside taxi service and courtesy cars.
Thunder Bay Transit bus route 14 Arthur serves the airport terminal and the nearby Aviation Centre of Excellence. On peak hours, this airport is served every 30 minutes, and 45 minutes outside peak hours. This route connects the airport to Arthur Street and City Hall Terminal.
The Thunder Bay International Airport has a three-storey terminal building. Since the closure of Sears at Intercity Shopping Centre in 2018, this terminal is the only facility in Thunder Bay which uses escalators.
Thunder Bay's runways are primarily used by small or larger turboprop, similar to the De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Q Series (400), and regional jet aircraft such as the Bombardier CRJ700 series, especially the CRJ900; however, they are capable of accommodating narrow-body jetliners such as the Embraer E-Jet E2 family operated by Porter Airlines, the Airbus A320 family operated by Air Canada Mainline and Air Canada Rouge and current generation Boeing 737 aircraft operated by Flair Airlines and on charter or occasional services operated by Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines and WestJet. Historically, the airport routinely handled Boeing 727-200, Boeing 737-200 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 mainline jet aircraft as well as the smaller Fokker F28 Fellowship twin jet in the past. Other larger jet aircraft types have also landed at the airport in the past with examples including a Boeing 720 operated by American Airlines in 1962, Boeing 757-200 and wide body Airbus A310 aircraft operated by Royal Aviation subsidiary Royal Airlines in 1999 and 2000, and a wide body Boeing 747SP operated as the "Global Peace Ambassadors" aircraft for Christian preacher K.A. Paul in 2005.[ citation needed ] The largest aircraft to land in Thunder Bay is the Antonov AN-124 which made four cargo trips direct from Austria between August 2017 and April 2018 with rail car parts for Bombardier.
The airport also has two fixed-base operators: Innotech Aviation Services for Shell Aviation, and Thunder Bay Flight Refuelling for World Fuel Services.
On 6 April 2009, Yavuz Berke, a 31-year-old Turkish-born Canadian student at the Aviation Centre of Excellence at Confederation College, stole its Cessna 172 at Thunder Bay airport and went for a joy ride. He crossed into US airspace where he was intercepted by two US Air Force F-16 fighter jets. He later landed on US Highway 60. [22]
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