Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, also known as Jean Lesage International Airport (French: Aéroport international Jean-Lesage de Québec, or Aéroport de Québec) (IATA: YQB, ICAO: CYQB) is the primary airport serving the Canadian city of Québec. Located 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) west southwest of the city, it is the eleventh-busiest airport in Canada and the busiest east of Montréal and west of Halifax, with 1,670,880 passengers and 121,680 aircraft movements in 2017. More than 10 airlines offer 360 weekly flights to destinations across Canada, the United States, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe.

Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport Aéroport international Jean-Lesage de Québec
IATA: YQB ICAO: CYQB WMO: 71708
Summary
Airport type	Public/Military
Owner	Transport Canada
Operator	Aéroport de Québec Inc.
Serves	Greater Quebec
Location	Sainte-Foy, Quebec
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL	244 ft / 74 m
Coordinates	46°47′28″N 071°23′36″W
Website	www.aeroportdequebec.com
Map
CYQB Location in Quebec
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 06/24 9,000 2,743 Asphalt 11/29 5,700 1,737 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 1,670,880 Passenger change 16-17 3.4% Aircraft movements 121,680 Movements change 16-17 4.7%

Overview

Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport. New airport terminal.

The airport was established in 1939, a year after the closure of the Aérodrome Saint-Louis. First established as a training facility for air observers, the first flight occurred on September 11, 1941. First known as the Aéroport de l’Ancienne Lorette, then the Aéroport de Sainte-Foy, and later the Aéroport de Québec, it was renamed to Aéroport international Jean-Lesage in 1993, in honour of the former Premier of Quebec, Jean Lesage. The airport is managed and operated by Aéroport de Québec inc., a non-profit and non-share corporation. The current terminal building has a capacity of 1.4 million passengers annually.

Beginning in 2006, with a budget of $65.8 million, Québec/Jean Lesage International Airport underwent a modernization designed to increase the terminal’s capacity and substantially enhance the level of passenger service. The modernization included a reconfiguration of the terminal on 2 levels, a restructuring of the baggage handling area and arrivals area, as well as a reconfiguration and enlargement of the waiting rooms. Fifty-four percent of the financing was provided directly by Aéroport de Québec inc. Completed in June 2008, the new configuration of the airport now enables it to handle 1.4 million passengers a year.

Based on the passenger figures for 2009 and 2010, it became clear that the terminal building would reach its design capacity by 2012. Aéroport de Québec inc. is therefore planning further investments of nearly $300 million to further expand the terminal building. Presently the terminal has 17 gates: 12 contact gates and 5 walk-out aircraft positions. This number will increase to 24 gates by 2025.

On July 4, 2011, work began on the second phase of the airport expansion, which lasted until 2017. Partially funded through an Airport Improvement Fee, the terminal building doubled the size, at a cost of $224.8 million. The work included an expansion of the international facilities, construction work on the runways, taxiways and de-icing pads, as well as enhancements to customer service facilities. On September 19, 2013, runway 12/30 was renamed to runway 11/29.

The airport charges an Airport Improvement Fee (AIF) to each passenger, it is amongst the highest in Canada at $35 per passenger.

In 2015 the airport was the 12th-busiest airport by total passengers and in 2014 it was the 14th-busiest by aircraft movements in Canada. On 10 March 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the addition of the airport to the list of Canadian airports containing U.S. border preclearance facilities.

Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

It is important to note here that the following companies are users of the airport’s terminal. Many other companies with daily services such as Air Creebec, Air Liaison, Chrono Aviation, Max Aviation, Propair and Strait Air are not using the airport’s terminal facilities but, are intrinsic of the airport’s traffics and statistics.

Cargo

Statistics

• Statistics prior to 2009 are from "Transport Canada". From 2009 on statistics are from Aéroport de Québec (ADQ). Transport Canada’s statistics are consistently higher than those of ADQ.

Access

Public transportation to the airport is infrequently provided by Réseau de transport de la Capitale route 78 to Terminus Les Saules, west of the centre of Quebec City.

Accidents and incidents

• On 9 September 1949, Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 108 on a flight from Montreal to Baie-Comeau with a stopover in Quebec City crash-landed east of Quebec City when a bomb exploded on-board shortly after departing from Quebec City Jean Lesage Airport (then known as L’Ancienne-Lorette Airport), killing all 19 passengers and 4 crew. The incident and trial that followed up would be later known as the Albert Guay affair.
• On 29 March 1979, Québecair Flight 255, a Fairchild F-27, crashed after take-off killing 17 and injuring 7.
• On 23 June 2010, a Beechcraft A100 King Air of Aeropro (C-FGIN) crashed north of the airport just after taking off from Runway 30 (now runway 29), killing all seven people on board.
• On 12 October 2017, for the first time in North America, a drone collided with a passenger plane. The drone struck the turboprop passenger plane operated by Skyjet Aviation while it was on approach. The drone was operating above the 90m flight height restriction and within the 5 km exclusion zone around airports, violating drone operating regulations.
• As of 28 August 2018, NO evidence has been provided to verify the reported incident of any drone strike actually occurred. The Canadian Transport Safety Authority has not investigated this incident and it was only ‘confirmed’ by Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau — and done so without any official investigation or evidence concluded from any official investigation. In fact according to Transport Canada’s official incident database, the reported incident occurred at 2,400ft altitude and the database says the aircraft was about 6.1nm (11.3km) from the runway at the time of impact; indicating clear errors in the facts as stated by Canada’s Transport Minister. Prior claims made by the office of the Transport Minister, regarding drone strikes against aircraft have subsequently been regarded by Canada’s own aviation safety investigations authority as having most probably not likely to have occurred given review of all available evidence. Official Transport Canada correspondence continue to reference reports and incidents in manners which have been officially concluded with results that disprove and contradict the positions published by the office of the Transportation Minister.

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