National Airports System (Canada)
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Canada's National Airport System (NAS) was defined in the National Airports Policy published in 1994. It includes all airports with an annual traffic of 200,000 passengers or more, as well as airports serving the national, provincial and territorial capitals.
Any airport sustaining an annual traffic of 200,000 passengers or more for a period of three years will be added to the NAS. Any non-capital airport falling below this threshold for a period of three years will be removed from the NAS.
All airports in the NAS are owned by Transport Canada and leased to the local authorities operating them.
As of 1994, the 26 NAS airports served 94% of all scheduled passenger and cargo traffic in Canada.
[edit] NAS Airports
The following list contains the 26 NAS airports effective 1 September 2006:
- British Columbia
- Saskatchewan
- Regina International Airport
- Saskatoon International Airport (Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport, officially)
- Manitoba
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Nova Scotia
- Prince Edward Island
- Nunavut
- Northwest Territories
- Yukon Territory
