Fort Nelson Airport

Northern Rockies Regional Airport
Fort Nelson Airport

Fort Nelson Airport, BC

IATA: YYE – ICAO: CYYE
– WMO: 71945

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Location

Elevation AMSL

1,253 ft / 382 m

Website

Map

CYYE

Location in British Columbia

Statistics (2010)

Aircraft movements	21,371

Northern Rockies Regional Airport (Fort Nelson Airport), (IATA: YYE, ICAO: CYYE), is located 3.8 nautical miles (7.0 km; 4.4 mi) east northeast of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Central Mountain Air	Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Prince George, Vancouver
Flair Airlines	Charter: Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria, Comox

Commencing during the early 1940s, scheduled passenger service was operated in the past by Canadian Pacific Air Lines and its successors CP Air and Canadian Airlines International to Vancouver, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Prince George, British Columbia; Fort St. John, British Columbia and Watson Lake, Yukon. CP Air served the airport with Boeing 737-200 jetliners during the 1970s with direct, no change of plane flights to all of the above destinations.^[4]^[5] Other Canadian Pacific flights into the airport over the years were operated with such twin engine prop aircraft as the Lockheed Lodestar, the Douglas DC-3 and the Convair 240 as well as with the larger, four engine Douglas DC-6B propliner and the Bristol Britannia turboprop.^[6]

↑ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 15 September 2016 to 0901Z 10 November 2016
↑ Synoptic/Metstat Station Information
↑ Total Aircraft movements by class of operation — NAV CANADA flight service stations
↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, July 15, 1970 CP Air system timetable
↑ North American Official Airline Guide (OAG), Feb. 1, 1976 edition, Fort Nelson flight schedules
↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, Dec. 1, 1943; Nov. 1, 1953; April 29, 1962 & April 24, 1966 Canadian Pacifio Air Lines system timetables

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Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for Fort Nelson Airport from Nav Canada as available.

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