YYC Calgary International Airport is an international airport that serves the city of Calgary in Alberta, a province of Canada. The airport is the fourth-busiest in the country as of 2016, catering to roughly 15.7 million travellers. YYC Calgary International is a hub for two major Canadian airlines, Air Canada and WestJet.
The first airport to serve Calgary opened in 1914, in the neighbourhood of Bowness. Operations shifted to a new airport southwest of the city in 1928, named Old Banff Coach Road Airport. However, issues with turbulence in the area prompted another airfield to be built the following year in Renfrew. This site was known as Calgary Municipal Airport. As the city of Calgary grew in the area surrounding the Renfrew airport, the city government decided to relocate operations another time. It purchased an area of land north of Calgary in 1938; this is the site of the current airport. Equipped with a paved runway, the airport opened in September 1939.
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