Toronto Pearson International Airport
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Aerial view of Toronto Pearson International Airport in 2007; southwest is at the top | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Transport Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Greater Toronto Airports Authority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Greater Toronto Area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | August 29, 1938 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Time zone | EST (UTC−05:00) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−04:00) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 569 ft / 173 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°40′36″N 079°37′50″W / 43.67667°N 79.63056°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Public transit access | Toronto Pearson Terminal 1 station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Airport Diagram (2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sources: Canada Flight Supplement Environment Canada Transport Canada Movements from Statistics Canada Toronto Pearson Traffic Summary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Toronto Pearson International Airport (IATA: YYZ, ICAO: CYYZ) is an international airport located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the main airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and the surrounding region known as the Golden Horseshoe. Pearson is the largest and busiest airport in Canada, handling 46.8 million passengers in 2024. It is named in honour of Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972), the 14th Prime Minister of Canada and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his humanitarian work in peacekeeping.
Pearson International Airport is situated 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Downtown Toronto in the adjacent city of Mississauga, with a small portion of the airfield extending into Toronto's western district of Etobicoke. It has five runways and two passenger terminals along with numerous cargo, maintenance, and aerospace production facilities on a site that covers 1,867 hectares (4,613 acres).
Toronto Pearson is the primary global hub for Air Canada. It also serves as a hub for Porter Airlines and WestJet, as a focus city for Air Transat, and a base of operations for Flair Airlines. Pearson is operated by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) as part of Transport Canada's National Airports System and is supported by around 50,000 workers. The airport maintains facilities for United States border preclearance.
An extensive network of non-stop domestic flights is operated from Toronto Pearson by several airlines to all major and many secondary cities across all provinces and territories of Canada. As of 2025, more than 50 airlines operate non-stop or direct flights from Pearson to more than 180 destinations across all six inhabited continents.