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Edmonton International Airport provides scheduled non-stop flights to over 50 destinations. It serves as the hub for Flair Airlines . [ 30 ] Edmonton is one of WestJet 's main hubs; the airline flies to 30 destinations with an average of 62 daily departures, nonstop, from Edmonton.
In 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, collided with DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757-200 cargo jet at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) over Überlingen, Germany. All 69 passengers on board the Bashkiran flight (consisting mainly of Russian schoolchildren) and the two pilots of DHL were killed.
As defined by Transport Canada, an international airport: . means any airport designated by the Contracting State, in whose territory it is situated, as an airport of entry and departure for international commercial air traffic, where the formalities incident to customs, immigration, public health, animal and plant quarantine and similar procedures are carried out.
This is a list of airports that serve the Edmonton Metropolitan Region in Alberta, Canada. [1] [2] Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System. [3] Communities in parentheses indicates the airport is not in a community. Location of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region in Alberta
The list is sorted by the name of the community served; click the sort buttons in the table header to switch listing order. Banff runway Beaverlodge Airport Calgary/Springbank control tower Calgary International Airport Calgary International control tower CFB Cold Lake CFB Edmonton Fort McMurray Airportt High Level Airport Edmonton/Twin Island Airpark Grande Prairie Airport Jasper Airport ...
Edmonton Airports operates the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) and the Edmonton/Villeneuve Airport. [4] The EIA is owned by Transport Canada, leased by Edmonton Airports, and part of the National Airports System. [5] It includes a planned inland port logistics support facility in support of the Port Alberta initiative. [6]
"United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations". UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010.
In the 1970s, DHL became an international delivery company, similar to Loomis and Purolator who were the only other international courier companies at the time. In 1979, under the name of DHL Air Cargo, the company entered the Hawaiian Islands with an inter-island cargo service using two Douglas DC-3 and four DC-6 aircraft.