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Transborder traffic to the United States continued to weaken at Canadian airports in March despite higher volumes of passengers in most airports compared to the previous year, according to Statistics Canada‘s monthly recorded data.
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Statistics Canada said transborder traffic was 1.3 million last month, which is 3.7 per cent lower than in March 2024. This is the second consecutive month with a year-over-year decrease in screened passenger counts for flights to the United States, it said.
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Transborder passenger counts also lagged pre-pandemic levels significantly, coming in 9.9 per cent lower this year compared to March 2019, it added.
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Travellers to the U.S. accounted for 27.6 per cent of the total number of screened passengers last month, down from 29.1 per cent the prior year.
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Overall in March, 4.6 million passengers were recorded passing through pre-board security screening at checkpoints operated at Canada’s eight largest airports.
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Statistics Canada said this is a modest increase of 1.5 per cent over March 2024, but 1.7 per cent below the pre-pandemic level from March 2019.
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Traffic was up year-over-year at all eight of Canada’s largest airports except Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International.
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Passengers screened for domestic flights increased five per cent year-over-year in March to 1.9 million people, with increases across all of the airports. Domestic traffic was three per cent lower, however, than in 2019.
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Besides the United States, the number of passengers screened for international travel was 1.4 million in March. This is 1.8 per cent higher than in the same month in 2024 and 8.9 per cent above the level posted in 2019.
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