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Thunder Bay Airport

48.37190°N
-89.32390°W
ARR / DAY
84
▼ 1.3%
DEP / DAY
93
▲ 3.0%
ON-TIME
78.2% Top 25%
arr · avg 10 min
dep · 100% · avg -1 min cal
AVG DELAY
10 min
7d window

Thunder Bay Airport (CYQT/YQT) is a medium international airport located in Thunder Bay, Canada. It features 2 runways with the longest being 7,318 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 84 arrivals and 93 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 28 carriers across 16 routes. The most active carrier is Colorful Guizhou Airlines (CGZ). The busiest route is to Sioux Lookout Airport (CYXL). On-time performance averages 78% with an average delay of 10 minutes against scheduled times. At the busiest hour of an average day, we calculated that a plane takes off or lands roughly every 240 seconds.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 2 total

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Go-arounds
0
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Rejected takeoffs
0
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Unstable approaches
2
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Return to field
2

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

44m ago
Temp
63°F
Wind
11 kts
90°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
CYQT 310538Z 09011KT 10SM BKN005 OVC020 17/17 A2994 RMK SC7SC1 PRESFR SLP143 DENSITY ALT 1100FT

Runways

2 installed

7,318 FT MAX
07/25
7,318 ft × 200
ASP● LIT
12/30
5,297 ft × 150
ASP● LIT

Delays by hour

Avg minutes · local time · last 30 days

Schedule vs actual
0m 5a 6m 6a 7m 7a 14m 8a 0m 9a 5m 10a 34m 11a 0m 12p
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Top carriers

Share of flights

40 total
TOP 9 482
Colorful Guizhou Airlines 22% Ornge AIR 15% Perimeter Aviation 15% Wasaya Airways 11% Centrafric'Air S.A. 10% PTR 10% CFW 7% Thunder Airlines 6% JET Freighters 5%

Top destinations

By flight count

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YXL 137
YTZ 34
YYZ 34
YSB 22
YWG 18
CKG8 12

Carriers

See all + destinations → 40
Colorful Guizhou Airlines
105
Ornge AIR
74
Perimeter Aviation
71
Wasaya Airways
51
Centrafric'Air S.A.
49
PTR
46
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CFW
33
Thunder Airlines
29
JET Freighters
24
Flight Inspection Center of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China
23
AIR Changan
23
CGX
22
China Flight General Aviation
21
Charlotte
20
Craft Avia Center Sapi de CV
19
CGT
18
CFO
17
2080061 Ontario
16
Trabajos Aereos y Publicidad Andaluza
15
AIR Guilin
14
AIR Tindi
13
AIR Canada
13
Church Fenton FTU
10
Porter Airlines
10
China Flying Dragon Aviation
10
CFM
10
Canadian Armed Forces
9
Morningstar AIR
9
NON
8
Calm AIR
8
Airsprint
7
Westjet Airlines
7
AIR Canada Rouge
7
CGY
7
Congressional AIR
7
Westjet Encore
7
Flair Airlines
6
Care Flight (NSW)
6
North Caribou Flying Service
6
CGJ
5

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZYZ
Elevation:
653 ft
Mag var:
3° W

Destination network

Great-circle routes from CYQT · last 7d

15 destinations
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Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 4 PM · 1 movement every 240 s
12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Top routes

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Route Operator Flights Avg enroute
YQTYTZ
Toronto, CA
 PTR 34 1h 58m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 Wasaya Airways 30 0h 44m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 Ornge AIR 29 2h 7m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 Perimeter Aviation 26 0h 48m
YQTYSB
Sudbury, CA
 Perimeter Aviation 21 2h 6m
YQTYYZ
Toronto, CA
 AIR Canada 11 1h 47m
YQTCKG8
Kakabeka Falls, CA
 Colorful Guizhou Airlines 10 0h 22m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 Flight Inspection Center of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China 10 1h 16m
YQTYYZ
Toronto, CA
 Porter Airlines 10 1h 38m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 2080061 Ontario 10 2h 19m
YQTYLK
Barrie-Orillia, CA
 CFO 9 2h 1m
YQTYWG
Winnipeg, CA
 Calm AIR 8 1h 32m
YQTYOW
Ottawa, CA
 PTR 8 2h 5m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 CGT 7 1h 17m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 Centrafric'Air S.A. 7 1h 2m
YQTYXL
Sioux Lookout, CA
 Thunder Airlines 7 2h 6m
YQTYWG
Winnipeg, CA
 Morningstar AIR 6 1h 57m
YQTYXZ
Wawa, CA
 CGY 6 0h 59m
YQTYYZ
Toronto, CA
 Flair Airlines 6 1h 38m
YQTYYZ
Toronto, CA
 AIR Canada Rouge 6 1h 35m

Pilot & community notes

6 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

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Anonymous
07/29/2013
I have stopped here often
Service is great, dealt with Brad goes out of his way to always help and is very knowledgeable C
Anonymous
06/14/2012
Pilot training
Is there a pilot training facility at Thunder Bay?
Anonymous
11/19/2011
Thunderbay ESSO Service
I have stopped there three times. Great, quick, and friendly service at reasonable prices.
david
08/25/2011
Esso is great
I second the comments from @douglasr - the Esso Avitat (Thunder Bay Flight Refueling) has big-airport service without the big-airport fees (compare the Esso Avitat at CYUL or CYOW to see what I'm talking about): no ramp fee, no handling fee, no parking fee. Ryan, who was on duty, was very friendly and professional: he even booked a hotel for me downtown and arranged for them to pick me up in their shuttle, so that I wouldn't have to pay for a taxi.
tvguru
07/24/2007
College
Attended Aviation Flight Management @ Confederation. Many good times spent here!
Anonymous
07/23/2007
Thunder Bay Shell
The service here was great... quick and friendly service. Thanks for your help!
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