YEG
Edmonton International Airport
Edmonton International Airport (IATA: YEG, ICAO: CYEG) is a large airport in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It opened on 15 Nov 1960. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,353 m (11,000 ft). It is operated by Edmonton Airports. In 2024 it handled 7.5 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1960–197315 NOV 1960
OpenedEdmonton International Airport opens.
02 JAN 1973
DisasterPacific Western Airlines Flight 3801.5 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap02/20034° / 214° · LIT
LENGTH3,353 m11,000 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt
12/30135° / 315° · LIT
LENGTH3,109 m10,200 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2013–20247.7M
7.6M
8.0M
7.6M
7.8M
8.3M
8.2M
2.6M
2.8M
5.8M
7.5M
7.5M
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Routes
38 destinations · 5 countriesYear-round22
YYCCalgary International AirportCanada · WestJet245 km152 miYLWKelowna International AirportCanada · WestJet, Flair Airlines547 km340 miYPYFort Chipewyan AirportCanada · Air Tindi626 km389 miYSMFort Smith AirportCanada · Air Tindi753 km468 miYXXAbbotsford International AirportCanada · Flair Airlines775 km482 miYVRVancouver International AirportCanada · WestJet, Air Canada, Flair Airlines809 km503 miYHYHay River / Merlyn Carter AirportCanada · Air Tindi848 km527 miYYJVictoria International AirportCanada · WestJet, Flair Airlines861 km535 miYZFYellowknife International AirportCanada · Canadian North, Air Canada, Air Tindi1,019 km633 miYWGWinnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International AirportCanada · WestJet1,187 km738 miMSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · WestJet1,744 km1,084 miLASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · WestJet1,919 km1,192 miLAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · WestJet2,187 km1,359 miPHXPhoenix Sky Harbor International AirportUnited States · WestJet2,213 km1,375 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · WestJet, Porter Airlines, Air Canada +12,689 km1,671 miYHMJohn C. Munro Hamilton International AirportCanada · Porter Airlines2,703 km1,680 miYOWOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International AirportCanada · Porter Airlines2,849 km1,770 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Porter Airlines, Air Canada2,969 km1,845 miYHUMontréal / Saint-Hubert Metropolitan AirportCanada · Porter Airlines2,988 km1,857 miYHZHalifax / Stanfield International AirportCanada · WestJet3,682 km2,288 miPVRPuerto Vallarta International AirportMexico · WestJet3,697 km2,297 miCUNCancún International AirportMexico · WestJet4,246 km2,638 miSeasonal21
YQQComox Valley International Airport / CFB ComoxCanada · WestJet878 km546 miYWGWinnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International AirportCanada · Flair Airlines1,187 km738 miSLCSalt Lake City International AirportUnited States · WestJet1,397 km868 miLASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Porter Airlines1,919 km1,192 miPSPPalm Springs International AirportUnited States · WestJet2,178 km1,353 miPHXPhoenix Sky Harbor International AirportUnited States · Porter Airlines2,213 km1,375 miYKFRegion of Waterloo International AirportCanada · Flair Airlines2,654 km1,649 miYOWOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International AirportCanada · WestJet2,849 km1,770 miSJDLos Cabos International AirportMexico · WestJet, Porter Airlines3,369 km2,093 miMZTGeneral Rafael Buelna International AirportMexico · WestJet3,408 km2,118 miYQMGreater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International AirportCanada · WestJet3,532 km2,195 miYYGCharlottetown AirportCanada · WestJet3,624 km2,252 miPVRPuerto Vallarta International AirportMexico · Porter Airlines, Flair Airlines3,697 km2,297 miMCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · WestJet3,815 km2,371 miYYTSt. John's International AirportCanada · WestJet4,219 km2,622 miCUNCancún International AirportMexico · Air Canada Rouge, Flair Airlines4,246 km2,638 miHUXBahías de Huatulco International AirportMexico · WestJet4,439 km2,758 miKEFKeflavik International AirportIceland · WestJet4,922 km3,058 miMBJSangster International AirportJamaica · WestJet, Air Canada Rouge4,934 km3,066 miOGGKahului International AirportUnited States · WestJet5,110 km3,175 miHNLDaniel K. Inouye International AirportUnited States · WestJet5,160 km3,206 miCargo4
YYCCalgary International AirportCanada · FedEx Express245 km152 miYZFYellowknife International AirportCanada · Buffalo Airways1,019 km633 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · FedEx Express2,689 km1,671 miMEMFrederick W. Smith International AirportUnited States · FedEx Express2,744 km1,705 miMost destinationsWestJet 28Flair Airlines 9Porter Airlines 9Air Tindi 4Air Canada 4FedEx Express 3
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YEG. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Edmonton International Airport” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
11 channelsAASTWR VFR ADVSY SVC118.300
APPAPP118.300
ARRARR120.500
ATISATIS128.000
CLDCLNC DEL124.100
DEPDEP133.650
FSSRDO122.500
GNDGND121.700
INFOFLT TECH AVN INC123.000
INFOEXEC FLT CTR122.950
TWRTWR118.300