YEG Edmonton International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Transport Canada | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Edmonton Airports | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Edmonton Metropolitan Region | ||||||||||||||
Location | Leduc County, between Leduc and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | ||||||||||||||
Opened | November 15, 1960 | ||||||||||||||
Focus city for | WestJet | ||||||||||||||
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Time zone | MST (UTC−07:00) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC−06:00) | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 2,373 ft / 723 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 53°18′36″N 113°34′46″W / 53.31000°N 113.57944°W | ||||||||||||||
Public transit access | 747 Leduc Transit 10 | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1] Environment Canada[2] Movements from Statistics Canada[3] Passengers from Edmonton Airports.[4] |
Edmonton International Airport (IATA: YEG, ICAO: CYEG), officially branded YEG Edmonton International Airport since 2022,[5] is the primary air passenger and air cargo facility in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region of the Canadian province of Alberta. Designated as an international airport by Transport Canada[6] and operated by Edmonton Airports, it is located 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) south southwest[1] of Downtown Edmonton in Leduc County on Highway 2 opposite of the city of Leduc. The airport offers scheduled non-stop flights to major cities in Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and Europe.
It is a hub facility for Northern Alberta and Northern Canada. The airport has a catchment area encompassing Central and Northern Alberta, northern British Columbia, and Yukon, the Northwest Territories and western Nunavut. The total catchment area is 1.8 million residents.[7] It is Canada's largest major airport by total land area, covering just under 28 km2 (7,000 acres),[8][9] the 5th busiest airport by passenger traffic and 9th busiest by aircraft movements.[3][4] It served 8,254,121 passengers in 2018.[10][11] The airport serves as headquarters for two major Canadian airlines, passenger carrier Flair Airlines[12] and cargo carrier Morningstar Air Express.[13]