- IATA
- YUL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- CYUL
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1941
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 21.6M
- in 2024
History & name
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport opened in 1941 and is named after Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984. Aéroports de Montréal operates it 13 km from Montréal, with two runways up to 3,353 m, and it handled 21.6 million passengers in 2024.
Named afterPierre Trudeau — Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984 (1919–2000)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Serves
- Montréal, Canada
- City centre
- 13 km from Montréal
- Opened
- 1941
- Operator
- Aéroports de Montréal
- Passengers
- 21.6 million in 2024
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,353 m
- Elevation
- 118 ft (36 m)
- Website
- admtl.com ↗
Where it sits
45.5°N, 73.7°W puts YUL in the northern hemisphere, 5,056 km from the equator and 4,952 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 108th most northerly, which makes it the 554th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 45.5°S, 106.3°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,721 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 151 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from YUL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto | YYZ | 507 km | 1h 08m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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