What role do airports authorities play?

We do a lot, but we don’t do everything. A passenger’s journey through an airport is a team sport, and each player brings its own skills and ingenuity to the table:

• Airlines decide the routes, schedules, fares and aircraft, and own the planes you fly on.

• The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, a federal Crown corporation, screens passengers and baggage before you board.

• The Canada Border Services Agency handles immigration and customs when you arrive from abroad.

• NAV CANADA manages the airspace around airports and across Canada, they provide air traffic control, safely moving aircraft from the runway through the skys across Canada.

• Ground services independent businesses offering fuelling, baggage handling, cleaning, catering and maintenance of the aircraft between flights, usually under contract with an airline.

• Transport Canada sets the safety and security rules everyone operates under as the regulator of air transportation.

The airport authority runs everything those partners depend on: the runways, the terminal, the baggage systems, the roads and the land. It also handles the business side — leasing space to hundreds of companies, partnering with private developers and investors on projects, and marketing the airport for new investment and new routes.