Kelowna International Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Transport Canada[1] | ||||||||||
| Operator | City of Kelowna | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kelowna, British Columbia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | PST (UTC−08:00) | ||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−07:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,420 ft / 433 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°57′26″N 119°22′41″W / 49.95722°N 119.37806°W | ||||||||||
| Website | ylw.kelowna.ca | ||||||||||
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Sources: Canada Flight Supplement[2] Environment Canada[3] Movements from Statistics Canada[4] Passenger statistics from City of Kelowna[5] | |||||||||||
Kelowna International Airport (IATA: YLW, ICAO: CYLW) is a Canadian airport located approximately 10 minutes or 6.2 nautical miles (11.5 km; 7.1 mi) northeast of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on Highway 97.
The single runway airport operates scheduled air service to Vancouver, Victoria, Prince George, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Seattle, as well as less frequent seasonal service to Montreal, Cancún, Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, and Phoenix. Currently, the airport handles up to 36 commercial departures a day, or approximately 248 departures per week. Three major airlines serve the airport: Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, and WestJet.
The service to Montreal is under Air Canada for the winter-portion of the year, and under Air Canada Rouge for the summer-portion of the year.
In 2018, YLW overtook Victoria International Airport to become Canada's 10th busiest airport by passenger traffic with 2,080,372, representing a 9.9% increase over 2017.[5]
- ^ "Airport Divestiture Status Report". Transport Canada. Archived from the original on February 23, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2007.
- ^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
- ^ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information Archived June 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Aircraft movements, by class of operation and peak hour and peak day of movements, for airports with NAV CANADA towers, monthly". Stats Canada. November 24, 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- ^ a b "Facts & statistics". City of Kelowna. February 2024. Retrieved February 29, 2024.