Montréal–Mirabel International Airport

Montréal–Mirabel International Airport Aéroport international Montréal–Mirabel
IATA: YMX ICAO: CYMX
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Transport Canada
Operator	Aéroports de Montréal
Serves	Greater Montreal
Location	Mirabel, Quebec
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL	271 ft / 83 m
Coordinates	45°40′47″N 074°02′19″W / 45.67972°N 74.03861°W / 45.67972; -74.03861Coordinates: 45°40′47″N 074°02′19″W / 45.67972°N 74.03861°W / 45.67972; -74.03861
Website	www.admtl.com
Map
CYMX Location in Quebec
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 06/24 12,000 3,658 Concrete 11/29 12,000 3,658 Concrete
Statistics (2014)
Aircraft movements 38,588 Total cargo (metric tonnes) 64,148
Sources: Canada Flight Supplement Movements from Statistics Canada Cargo from ACI

Montréal–Mirabel International Airport (IATA: YMX, ICAO: CYMX), originally called Montréal International Airport and widely known as Mirabel, is a cargo and former international passenger airport located in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi) northwest of Montreal. It opened on October 4, 1975.

The main role of the airport today is cargo flights, but it is also home to MEDEVAC and general aviation flights as well as being a manufacturing base for Bombardier Aerospace, where final assembly of regional jet (CRJ700, CRJ900 and CRJ1000) aircraft and the Bombardier CSeries is conducted. The former passenger terminal apron is now a racing course.

Montréal–Mirabel International Airport is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). CBSA claims that its officers at this airport can handle general aviation aircraft only with no more than 15 passengers, but larger aircraft have been serviced. It is one of two airports in Canada with sufficient right-of-way that can be expanded to accommodate 50 million passengers per year, the other being Toronto Pearson International Airport. A lack of traffic meant that Mirabel was never expanded beyond its first phase. It is one of only two non-capital airports with fewer than 200,000 passengers a year to be part of the National Airports System.