Halifax / Stanfield International Airport

Halifax Stanfield International Airport is the principal commercial airport for Atlantic Canada and the largest airport in the region by passenger volume, serving the roughly 2.4M residents of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Located 20 mi (32 km) northeast of downtown Halifax at 477 ft (145 m) elevation in the community of Enfield, YHZ handles 96 routes across 56 destinations through 33 airlines. The airport is named for former Nova Scotia Premier and Canadian finance minister Robert Stanfield and is operated by the not-for-profit Halifax International Airport Authority. YHZ functions as a secondary hub for Air Canada, WestJet, and Porter Airlines, with substantial operations by Flair and Lynx supporting the Canadian low-cost segment. International service is notably broad for an airport of this size: Condor (to Frankfurt, making YHZ a long-running German leisure-route terminus), Icelandair (Reykjavík), Air Transat, WestJet (with UK, Caribbean, and European seasonal routes), Sunwing, Provincial Airlines, and regional carriers PAL Airlines, Pascan, and Air Saint-Pierre (to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon — one of the more unusual international destinations in Canadian scheduled service). U.S. carriers American, Delta, and United provide daily service to Boston, New York–LaGuardia, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington–Reagan, and other northeastern hubs. YHZ is the closest major North American airport to Europe by great-circle distance and is routinely used as a transatlantic emergency diversion alternate, most famously during Operation Yellow Ribbon on September 11, 2001. The airfield has two asphalt runways — 05/23 at 10,500 ft (3,200 m) and 14/32 at 7,700 ft (2,347 m) — both capable of full widebody operations. A single unified terminal handles all commercial traffic, organized around a central check-in hall feeding two concourses. The airport is the headquarters of IMP Aerospace, a major Canadian maintenance-repair-overhaul (MRO) operator, and hosts significant Transport Canada, Department of National Defence, and Coast Guard aviation support activity given the Halifax region's role as home of Canada's Atlantic Fleet and primary Atlantic search-and-rescue coordination center.