Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport

Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport
Aéroport international Jean-Lesage de Québec
Summary
Airport type Public/Military
Owner Transport Canada
Operator Aéroport de Québec Inc.
Serves Greater Quebec
Location Sainte-Foy, Quebec
Time zone EST (UTC−05:00)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL 244 ft / 74 m
Coordinates 46°47′28″N 071°23′36″W / 46.79111°N 71.39333°W / 46.79111; -71.39333Coordinates: 46°47′28″N 071°23′36″W / 46.79111°N 71.39333°W / 46.79111; -71.39333
Website www.aeroportdequebec.com
Map
CYQB
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
06/24 9,000 2,743 Asphalt
11/29 5,700 1,737 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 1,670,880
Passenger change 16-17 Increase 3.4%
Aircraft movements 121,680
Movements change 16-17 Increase 4.7%
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[1]
Environment Canada[2]
Movements from Statistics Canada[3]
Passenger statistics from Aéroport de Québec.[4]

Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, also known as Jean Lesage International Airport (French: Aéroport international Jean-Lesage de Québec, or Aéroport de Québec) (IATA: YQB, ICAO: CYQB) is the primary airport serving the Canadian city of Québec. Located 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) west southwest of the city, it is the eleventh-busiest airport in Canada and the busiest east of Montréal and west of Halifax, with 1,670,880 passengers[4] and 121,680 aircraft movements in 2017.[3] More than 10 airlines offer 360 weekly flights to destinations across Canada, the United States, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe.

Overview

New airport terminal

The airport was established in 1939, a year after the closure of the Aérodrome Saint-Louis. First established as a training facility for air observers, the first flight occurred on September 11, 1941. First known as the Aéroport de l'Ancienne Lorette, then the Aéroport de Sainte-Foy, and later the Aéroport de Québec, it was renamed to Aéroport international Jean-Lesage in 1993, in honour of the former Premier of Quebec, Jean Lesage. The airport is managed and operated by Aéroport de Québec inc., a non-profit and non-share corporation. The current terminal building has a capacity of 1.4 million passengers annually.[5]

Beginning in 2006, with a budget of $65.8 million, Québec/Jean Lesage International Airport underwent a modernization designed to increase the terminal's capacity and substantially enhance the level of passenger service. The modernization included a reconfiguration of the terminal on 2 levels, a restructuring of the baggage handling area and arrivals area, as well as a reconfiguration and enlargement of the waiting rooms. Fifty-four percent of the financing was provided directly by Aéroport de Québec inc. Completed in June 2008, the new configuration of the airport now enables it to handle 1.4 million passengers a year.

Based on the passenger figures for 2009 and 2010, it became clear that the terminal building would reach its design capacity by 2012. Aéroport de Québec inc. is therefore planning further investments of nearly $300 million to further expand the terminal building.[5] Presently the terminal has 17 gates: 12 contact gates and 5 walk-out aircraft positions. This number will increase to 24 gates by 2025.[6]

On July 4, 2011, work began on the second phase of the airport expansion, which lasted until 2017. Partially funded through an Airport Improvement Fee, the terminal building doubled the size, at a cost of $224.8 million. The work included an expansion of the international facilities, construction work on the runways, taxiways and de-icing pads, as well as enhancements to customer service facilities.[7] On September 19, 2013, runway 12/30 was renamed to runway 11/29.

The airport charges an Airport Improvement Fee (AIF) to each passenger, it is amongst the highest in Canada at $35 per passenger.[8]

In 2015 the airport was the 12th-busiest airport by total passengers and in 2014 it was the 14th-busiest by aircraft movements in Canada.[9] On 10 March 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the addition of the airport to the list of Canadian airports containing U.S. border preclearance facilities.[10]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

It is important to note here that the following companies are airport's terminal users. Many other companies with daily services such as Air Creebec, Air Liaison, Chrono Aviation, Max Aviation, Propair and Strait Air are not using the airport's terminal facilities but, are intrinsic of the airport's traffics and statistics.

AirlinesDestinations
Air Canada Express Gaspé, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Montréal–Trudeau, Ottawa, Sept-Îles, Wabush
Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson
Air Canada Rouge Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson
Air Inuit Kangiqsujuaq, Kangirsuk, Kuujjuaq, Montréal–Trudeau, Quaqtaq, Salluit, Schefferville, Sept-Îles
Air Transat Paris–Charles de Gaulle[11]
Seasonal: Cancún, Cayo Coco/Cayo Guillermo, Fort Lauderdale, Holguin, La Romana, Montréal–Trudeau, Orlando, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Roatán, Samaná, Santa Clara, Varadero
American Eagle Seasonal: Philadelphia
PAL Airlines Montréal–Trudeau, Sept–Îles, Wabush
Pascan Aviation Bonaventure, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Mont-Joli, Saint-Hubert, Sept-Îles, Wabush
Porter Airlines Toronto–Billy Bishop
Sunwing Airlines Cancún, Cayo Coco/Cayo Guillermo, Miami (begins December 8, 2018), Punta Cana, Santa Clara, Varadero
Seasonal: Fort Lauderdale, Holguin, Puerto Plata, Rio Hato, Roatán
United Express Newark
Seasonal: Chicago–O'Hare
WestJet Seasonal: Calgary
WestJet Encore Montréal–Trudeau (ends October 28, 2018)[12], Toronto–Pearson

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
FedEx Feeder
operated by Morningstar Air Express 		Montreal-Mirabel
UPS Feeder
operated by SkyLink Express 		Montreal-Mirabel
Glencore Kattiniq/Donaldson

Statistics

Passenger statistics[4][13][14] and aircraft movements[3][15][9][16][17] for Jean Lesage International Airport
YearTotal passengersAAircraft Movements
2000672,829142,612
2001642,767151,650
2002610,568135,646
2003628,545116,523
2004715,106109,180
2005793,735101,367
2006802,263109,031
2007899,612119,441
20081,022,862125,512
20091,035,026128,890
20101,190,088126,856
20111,313,432128,748
20121,342,840133,675
20131,475,717118,265
20141,574,699112,468
20151,584,713110,345
20161,615,750116,190
20171,670,880121,680
  • ^A Statistics prior to 2009 are from Transport Canada. From 2009 on statistics are from Aéroport de Québec (ADQ). Transport Canada's statistics are consistently higher than those of ADQ.

Access

Public transportation to the airport is infrequently provided by Réseau de transport de la Capitale route 78 to Terminus Les Saules, west of the centre of Quebec City.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 9 September 1949, Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 108 on a flight from Montreal to Baie-Comeau with a stopover in Quebec City crash-landed east of Quebec City when a bomb exploded on-board shortly after departing from Quebec City Jean Lesage Airport (then known as L'Ancienne-Lorette Airport), killing all 19 passengers and 4 crew. The incident and trial that followed up would be later known as the Albert Guay affair.
  • On 29 March 1979, Québecair Flight 255, a Fairchild F-27, crashed after take-off killing 17 and injuring 7.
  • On 23 June 2010, a Beechcraft A100 King Air of Aeropro (C-FGIN) crashed north of the airport just after taking off from Runway 30 (now runway 29), killing all seven people on board.[18]
  • On 12 October 2017, for the first time in North America, a drone collided with a passenger plane. The drone struck the turboprop passenger plane operated by Skyjet Aviation while it was on approach. The drone was operating above the 90m flight height restriction and within the 5 km exclusion zone around airports, violating drone operating regulations.
  • As of 28 August 2018, NO evidence has been provided to verify the reported incident of any drone strike actually occurred. The Canadian Transport Safety Authority has not investigated this incident and it was only 'confirmed' by Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau - and done so without any official investigation or evidence concluded from any official investigation. In fact according to Transport Canada's official incident database, the reported incident occurred at 2,400ft altitude and the database says the aircraft was about 6.1nm (11.3km) from the runway at the time of impact; indicating clear errors in the facts as stated by Canada's Transport Minister. Prior claims made by the office of the Transport Minister, regarding drone strikes against aircraft have subsequently been regarded by Canada's own aviation safety investigations authority as having most probably not likely to have occurred given review of all available evidence. Official Transport Canada correspondence continue to reference reports and incidents in manners which have been officially concluded with results that disprove and contradict the positions published by the office of the Transportation Minister.

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 19 July 2018 to 0901Z 13 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Synoptic/Metstat Station Information". weatheroffice.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "Aircraft movements, by class of operation, airports with NAV CANADA towers (Annual. 2013-2017)". Statistics Canada. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "Statistics - Aéroport international Jean-Lesage de Québec (YQB)". Aéroport international Jean-Lesage de Québec (YQB). Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  5. 1 2 Le Soleil (8 November 2010). "L'aéroport de Québec trop petit d'ici deux ans" (in French). Cyberpresse.ca. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  6. ↑ Aéroport de Québec Master Plan Archived 2010-12-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ La Presse (4 July 2011). "L'aéroport de Québec s'agrandit (french)". Cyberpresse.ca. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  8. ↑ "Airport Improvement Fees (AIFs)". Archived from the original on 2017-09-20.
  9. 1 2 Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations: Annual Report (TP 577): Table 2-1 — Total aircraft movements by class of operation — NAV CANADA towers". www.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "Travellers to U.S. will soon be able to clear customs at Montreal's central train station - CBC News". cbc.ca. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  11. ↑ routesonline.com - airtransat extends Quebec City – Paris to year-round in S18 Archived 2017-10-18 at Wikiwix
  12. ↑ Marowits, Ross (August 23, 2018). "WestJet cutting flights in a bid to reverse first loss in 13 years". Global. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  13. ↑ Top 100 Airports Ranked by Enplaned and Deplaned Passengers, Selected Services or Passengers enplaned and deplaned on selected services — Top 50 airports, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine., 2007 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ↑ "Air Carrier Traffic at Canadian Airports: Table 1-1 — Passengers enplaned and deplaned on selected services — Top 50 airports". www.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  15. ↑ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations: Annual Report (TP 577): Table 2-1 — Total aircraft movements by class of operation — NAV CANADA towers". www.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  16. ↑ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations: Annual Report (TP 577): Table 2-1 — Total aircraft movements by class of operation — NAV CANADA towers". www.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  17. ↑ TP577 - Aircraft Movement Statistics Annual Report. Transport Canada 2004 Archived 2008-04-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ CBC News (23 June 2010). "Quebec City plane crash cause unclear". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  19. ↑ "A first in Canada: Drone collides with passenger plane above Quebec City airport". CBC. 2017-10-15. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18.
  20. ↑ "Drone collides with commercial aeroplane in Canada". BBC. 2017-10-16. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18.
  21. ↑ Joshua Rhett Miller (16 October 2017). "Drone hits passenger plane for first time in North America". New York Post. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017.
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