Winnipeg International Airport
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Winnipeg International Airport Template:Airport codes is an airport in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the 7th busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic, serving 3.2 million passengers in 2005, and the 11th busiest airport by aircraft movements.
Winnipeg is also Canada's 3rd largest airport by cargo tonnage, with approximately 150,000 metric tonnes of air cargo moving through the airport in 2005. Two of Canada's largest air cargo companies use Winnipeg as a major domestic hub: Purolator and Cargojet. It is one of 5 airports in Canada designated under the federal government's International Cargo Transshipment Program.
Opening in 1928, it was Canada's first international airport. A major project involving the construction of a new terminal is underway. It is scheduled to be completed by 2009.
The airport is connected to the Winnipeg city centre via Wellington Avenue. The road connects to other streets in Winnipeg to the city centre, as the route ends near the railroad (across the railroad is another Wellington Avenue; there weren't enough funds for a railroad crossing at the time and appears there never will be). Winnipeg International Airport is one of 7 Canadian Airports that has US Border Pre-clearance facilities.
Airlines
- Air Canada (Cancun, Halifax, Montego Bay, Montréal, Ottawa, Punta Cana, Toronto, Vancouver)
- Air Canada Jazz (Calgary, Edmonton, London (ON) (effective August 1, 2006), Montréal, Ottawa, Regina, Saskatoon, Thunder Bay)
- Air West Aviation
- Bearskin Airlines (Churchill, Flin Flon, Fort Francis, Kenora, Rankin Inlet, Red Lake, Sioux Lookout, The Pas, Thunder Bay, Whale Cove, Windsor)
- Calm Air (Arviat, Baker Lake, Churchill, Flin Flon, Gillam, Rankin Inlet, The Pas, Thompson, Whale Cove)
- Execaire
- Fast Air
- First Air (Rankin Inlet)
- Keystone Air
- Kivalliq Air
- Northway Aviation
- Northwest Airlines
- Northwest Airlink (Detroit and Minneapolis/St. Paul)
- Perimeter Aviation
- Skyservice (Bahias de Huatulco, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Holguin, Las Vegas, Mazatlan, Orlando, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Varadero, Zihuatanejo)
- United Airlines
- United Express (Chicago/O'Hare and Denver)
- Westjet (Abbotsford, Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Kelowna, Las Vegas, London (ON), Montréal, Ottawa, Phoenix, Regina, Saskatoon, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria (BC))
- West Wind Aviation
- Zoom Airlines (London/Gatwick)