Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport

Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport

Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport (IATA: YXY, ICAO: CYXY) is located in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It is part of the National Airports System, and is owned and operated by the Government of Yukon. The Airport was renamed in honour of longtime Yukon Member of Parliament Erik Nielsen on December 15, 2008.

The Airport has its own fire department with three crash tenders and one supervisor vehicle based at a fire station on the airport grounds.

The Airport resides at an elevation of 2,317 ft (706 m) above mean sea level. It has three runways: 01/19, an asphalt surface runway with 1,798 ft (548 m) long, 14R/32L, an asphalt surface runway with 9,500 ft (2,896 m) long and 14R/32R, an asphalt surface runway with 5,317 ft (1,621 m) long.

Air Canada Express, Air North, and WestJet are provide scheduled commercial flights and charter services to major cities in Canada from this Airport. It is main operating base for Air North.

German leisure airline Condor operates seasonal nonstop flights between Frankfurt am Main and Whitehorse with Boeing 767-300ER which is the largest aircraft to serve the airport with scheduled passenger flights.

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