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Canadian codes, after the universal Y, are an interesting mess with a lot of non-intuitive codes. Here's a selection: * YUL is Montreal airport in Dorval, with
by jarek 12y ago
Canadian codes, after the universal Y, are an interesting mess with a lot of non-intuitive codes. Here's a selection:
* YUL is Montreal airport in Dorval, with a mystery U. The somewhat more sensible YMX went to the flop Mirabel airport development
* YYZ is Toronto airport in Downsview. The city airport is YTZ. YTO is the metro code.
* YYG is Charlottetown
* YYJ is Victoria airport at the other end of the country
* YXE is Saskatoon
* YQR is Regina, it would be neat if the Q was for "Queen"
* YZF is Yellowknife
* YXY is Whitehorse
I do prefer the ICAO scheme.
- Serow225 12y agoYeah I've always been curious if there is a scheme to the Canadian codes, or if they're just random - anyone know?
- Avernar 12y agoYYZ is Toronto Pearson in Mississauga YZD is Downsview
- jarek 12y agoOops, yeah, I think I was thinking "Malton" when I wrote Downsview there. My bad.
- iamshs 12y agoYEG - Edmonton YMM - Fort Mac YYC - Calgary Just seems random naming to me.
- jarek 12y agoWell one of the characters matching (E, M, C), arguably two for Fort McMurray, is still better than YYZ matching none of the characters in any of the names (Toronto, Lester B Pearson, Malton, Mississauga) of the country's largest airport!
- MatthewWilkes 12y agoThe YYZ/YTZ distinction shouldn't be allowed, I've been fooled by too small a font size before so I didn't notice one of a list of segments was "Toronto YTZ" rather than "Toronto YYZ"