- IATA
- YYZ
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- CYYZ
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1939
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 45.7M
- in 2024
History & name
Toronto Pearson International Airport opened in 1939 and honours Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972), Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. The Greater Toronto Airports Authority operates it 19 km from Toronto, with 5 runways up to 3,389 m, and it handled 45.7 million passengers in 2024.
Named afterLester B. Pearson — 14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968 (1897–1972)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Toronto Pearson International Airport
- Serves
- Toronto, Canada
- City centre
- 19 km from Toronto
- Opened
- 1939
- Operator
- Greater Toronto Airports Authority
- Passengers
- 45.7 million in 2024
- Runways
- 5 runways, longest 3,389 m
- Elevation
- 569 ft (173 m)
- Website
- torontopearson.com ↗
Where it sits
43.7°N, 79.6°W puts YYZ in the northern hemisphere, 4,857 km from the equator and 5,151 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 123rd most northerly, which makes it the 539th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 43.7°S, 100.4°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,886 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Billy Bishop Toronto City (YTZ), 20 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
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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