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Delta Air Lines Airport & Airspace Capacity Case Study

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Introduction
Air Canada has four hubs and all are located within the country. They are Toronto Pearson International Airport, Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Calgary International Airport, and Vancouver International Airport. Due to the large geographic area of the country, air transportation is the primary mode of travel for the Canadian population. Canada’s population growth rate was the highest amongst the G8 countries between 2006 and 2011 at 5.3%. Along with that, the Canadian economy has been growing at a steady pace since the 2008 financial crisis. In 2012, air passenger traffic in Canada increased by 4.8% which was the third consecutive annual increase since the 2008 financial crisis. In terms of aircraft movements, the four hubs aforementioned have the highest number of aircraft movements in the country in 2013, totaling 94,810 aircraft movements in December 2013 alone which is 63% of the total aircraft movements among 41 Canadian airports that have air traffic control towers.
For decades, all Canadian airports were managed directly by the federal aviation regulatory authority Transport Canada. In the early 1990s, the federal government analyzed options to reduce financial subsidies in the management of public airports. In 1994, Transport Canada instituted the National Airports Policy, whereby it privatized airport operations to newly formed airport authorities that are non-profit capital corporations. All four of Air Canada’s hubs were

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