YXC

Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport

ICAO CYXC49.6108°N 115.7820°W939 m / 3,082 ftMedium airport
On the map

Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport (IATA: YXC, ICAO: CYXC) is a medium airport in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. It has one runway, 1,829 m (6,000 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 181 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1978–1978
11 FEB 1978
DisasterPacific Western Airlines Flight 314.42 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
16/34178° / 358° · LIT
LENGTH1,829 m6,000 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2008–2019
106K
105K
106K
110K
113K
115K
125K
130K
129K
132K
175K
181K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YXC. From the Wikipedia article “Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport” (revision of 10 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

3 airlines · destinations from YXC
Passenger3
WRWestJet Encore2—Air Canada Express18PPacific Coastal Airlines1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from YXC. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers181K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,578of 3,974 · #352 North America · #37 CALongest runway1,829 m6,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,614of 29,858 · =1,310 North America · =87 CAElevation939 m3,082 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=5,283of 43,403 · #2,645 North America · #89 CARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =2,583 North America · =233 CA
Scale: 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

4 channels
A/GMF122.300
CNTRVANCOUVER CNTR133.600
RCOPACIFIC RDO126.700
RDORDO122.300