Operations
The Sault Ste. Marie airport has equipment to support instrument approaches for all-weather operation, as well as a Nav Canada control tower and onsite flight service station. Currently, Porter airlines operates 3 daily roundtrip flights to Toronto during weekdays and two daily flights during the weekend. It was recently announced by Porter that they would be increasing frequencies to four times daily starting in September 2012. Jazz Air currently flies to Toronto 6 times daily using both Dash 8 100 and Q 400 aircraft which is the newest edition to the Jazz fleet. Seasonal winter charters operate utilizing primarily 737 800 aircraft. Its runways are designed to handle medium-sized transport jets such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 767; current operations to Sault Ste. Marie consist of turboprop and Boeing 737 aircraft.
In 2010, the airport ranked 34th among Canadian airports for total number of aircraft movements (landing or taking off), with 51,279 movements.
The airport is classified as an airport of entry by NAV CANADA and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency. CBSA officers at this airport currently can handle aircraft with no more than 30 passengers.
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