# Pond Inlet Airport (YIO / CYIO)

**Pond Inlet Airport** (IATA: YIO, ICAO: CYIO) is a small airport in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,219 m (4,000 ft) long, gravel. In 2008 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyio

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YIO / CYIO
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 55 m / 181 ft
- Coordinates: 72.6895, -77.9689
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,219 m / 4,000 ft
- Passengers: 7,751 (2008)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/Iqaluit
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pond_Inlet_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3914279
- Weather station: CYIO · WMO 71095
- Ident: CYIO

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 02T/20T | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Gravel | 023° / 203° | yes |

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [YAB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyab.md) Arctic Bay Airport · Canada · 235 km / 146 mi · Canadian North
- [YRB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyrb.md) Resolute Bay Airport · Canada · 574 km / 357 mi · Canadian North
- [YFB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyfb.md) Iqaluit Airport · Canada · 1,064 km / 661 mi · Canadian North

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from YIO, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 5T [Canadian North](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/canadian-north) · 3

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 8K (2008) | #2,786 of 3,974 | #698 in North America | #78 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft | =9,646 of 29,858 | =3,829 in North America | =325 in CA |
| Elevation | 55 m / 181 ft | =34,424 of 43,403 | =15,708 in North America | =1,230 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS | 128.300 |
| RDO | RDO | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 mi.

## In collections

- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #12

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Pond Inlet Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pond_Inlet_Airport&oldid=1363072149), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyio/data