Montreal International Airport

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Montr�al-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (IATA: YUL, ICAO: CYUL) (French: A�roport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montr�al) or Montr�al-Trudeau, formerly known as Montr�al-Dorval International Airport, is located in the city of Dorval, on the Island of Montreal and is 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Montreal's downtown core. It is an international airport that serves Greater Montreal, along with the regions of Northern Vermont and New York.^[5]

The airport is managed and operated by A�roports de Montr�al (ADM), a not-for-profit corporation without share capital. The airport is owned by Transport Canada, which has a 60-year lease with A�roports de Montr�al, as per Canada's National Airport Policy of 1994..

It is the busiest airport in the province of Quebec, the third busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic and the fourth busiest airport in Canada by aircraft movements, with 12,407,934^[4] passengers and 222,871^[3] aircraft movements in 2007. It is one of 8 Canadian airports with United States border preclearance and is one of the main gateways into Canada with 59% of its passengers being on non-domestic flights, the highest proportion amongst Canada's airports during 2007.^[4] It is one of four Air Canada hubs, and, in that capacity, serves mainly Quebec, the Atlantic Provinces and Eastern Ontario..

Airlines servicing Trudeau offer flights to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Europe, Mexico, the United States, and other destinations within Canada. It is the only Canadian airport that offers non-stop service to Africa and it also contains the second largest duty-free shop in North America and largest in Canada.^{[citation needed]}

The airport is headquarters for several airlines: Air Canada, the country's largest; Air Transat, the country's largest charter and was the headquarters of the now defunct Jetsgo. It also plays an important role in general aviation, being home to the headquarters of Innotech-Execair, Starlink, ACASS and Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facilities of Air Canada (their maintenance hangar complex is known as The Base), Air Transat, MJet and ExcelTech.

Finally, Bombardier has a major assembling facility on site to build Regional Jets and Challenger business jets.