Fort McMurray Airport 5.39

Fort McMurray International Airport is located 7NM southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. YMM is the largest airport in northern Alberta. It has daily flights to Edmonton, Calgary, Fort Chipewyan, Vancouver and Toronto through airlines Air Canada, WestJet, McMurray Aviation and Northwestern Air. Sunwing airline used to fly to seasonal vacation destinations in Mexico 2012-2015.The airport is managed by the Fort McMurray Airport Authority, a community-based not-for-profit organization that has operated YMM since 2010.The airport has seen a significant rise in passengers over the last 10 years due to intense development of the Athabasca oil sands. In 2014, YMM served 1,308,416 passengers, ranking it as the 15th busiest airport in Canada. As a result, a new $258 million airport terminal facility opened in 2014 that can accommodate 1.5 million passengers per year.Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) established permanent service at the airport in 2013.HistoryEarly yearsEarly 20th-century flights to Fort McMurray were primarily float planes that used the Snye River, a waterway that linked Clearwater River to the larger Athabasca River (private float planes still use the waterway). The first landing strip for light planes was built in 1936 to connect Fort McMurray with Edmonton.