YXY

Whitehorse / Erik Nielsen International Airport

ICAO CYXY60.7085°N 135.0657°W706 m / 2,317 ftMedium airport
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Whitehorse / Erik Nielsen International Airport (IATA: YXY, ICAO: CYXY) is a medium airport in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It opened in 1942. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,895 m (9,497 ft). In 2019 it handled 368 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1942–1942
1942
OpenedWhitehorse / Erik Nielsen International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport
14R/32L158° / 338° · LIT
LENGTH2,895 m9,497 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14L/32R159° / 339°
LENGTH2,011 m6,597 ftWIDTH31 m100 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2004–2019
175K
199K
205K
230K
247K
272K
269K
305K
286K
336K
349K
368K
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Routes

9 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAir North 9Air Canada 1WestJet 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YXY. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport” (revision of 1 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers368K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,256of 3,974 · #287 North America · #25 CALongest runway2,895 m9,497 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,523of 29,823 · #323 North America · #23 CAElevation706 m2,317 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=7,538of 43,341 · =3,515 North America · #222 CAAgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =924 North America · =32 CARunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =43 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

8 channels
PALEdmonton Control132.100
MFWhitehorse Radio, 05-15Z, 5nm below 5400ASL118.300
RCOWhitehorse Radio (FISE), (E)123.275
GNDWhitehorse Ground, 15-05Z121.900
VDFVHF Direction Findinf118.300
TWRWhitehorse Tower, (E), 15-05Z118.300
TWRWhitehorse Tower, (E), 15-05Z236.600
ATISAutomatic Terminal Information System125.250