St. Anthony Airport guide

St. Anthony Airport (ICAO CYAY) serves the Great Northern Peninsula at the northern tip of Newfoundland. The airfield lies inland, about 50 kilometres by road from the town of St. Anthony. Transport Canada owns and operates it, and the airport opened in 1987.

The airport has one paved runway, 10/28, which measures 4,003 by 100 feet. The air terminal building is open 24 hours a day, every day of the week, and a café sits before the security screening area. Federal funding has paid for a major reconstruction of the airport and runway in three phases, with work scheduled to run until 2026 and little or no disruption to normal operations.

PAL Airlines is the scheduled carrier. Its routes link St. Anthony with St. John's, Goose Bay, Wabush and Blanc-Sablon, Quebec. The airport recorded 4,239 aircraft movements in 2010, the most recent count published. Many of those flights carry medical patients, since the region has few other fast links to larger centres.