Toronto Pearson International Airport, officially named Lester B. Pearson International Airport, is an international airport serving the Greater Toronto Area. The airport is named in honour of Toronto-born Lester B. Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and 14th Prime Minister of Canada.
Pearson Airport is the largest and busiest airport in Canada. In 2016, it handled over 44 million passengers. Pearson is the main hub for Air Canada. It is also a hub for passenger airline WestJet and serves as an operating base for passenger airlines Air Transat and Sunwing Airlines.
In 1937, the Government of Canada agreed to support the building of two airports for Toronto. One site was downtown, today’s Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. The other was to be outside the city, intended as a backup for the downtown airport. The first scheduled passenger flight for the new Malton Airport was in August 1939.
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