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|- !colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #4682B4; color: white;" |Runways |- !bgcolor="lightgrey" rowspan="2"|Direction !bgcolor="lightgrey" colspan="2"|Length !bgcolor="lightgrey" rowspan="2"|Surface |- !bgcolor="lightgrey"|ft !bgcolor="lightgrey"|m |- !align="left" valign="top"|07/25 |valign="top" align="right"|6,200 |valign="top" align="right"|1,890 |valign="top"|Asphalt |- !align="left" valign="top"|10/28 |valign="top" align="right"|8,000 |valign="top" align="right"|2,438 |valign="top"|Asphalt |- !align="left" valign="top"|16/34 |valign="top" align="right"|12,675 |valign="top" align="right"|3,863 |valign="top"|Asphalt |- !bgcolor="#4682B4" colspan="4"|Statistics (2005) |- ! colspan="3"|Number of Passengers |10,148,718 |- ! colspan="3"|Aircraft Movements |233,129 |-

Calgary International Airport, , is a medium-sized airport that serves Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the surrounding region. It is the fourth-busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic, serving 10.1 million passengers in 2005, and offers scheduled daily nonstop flights to major cities in Europe, the United States, Central America, and Canada. Prior to the merger of Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and Mirabel International Airport, Calgary ranked third for passenger movements in Canada. It is still the third busiest airport by aircraft movements. The airport is a major hub facility for Western Canada and is the home of WestJet Airlines as well as a secondary hub for Air Canada. Calgary International Airport is one of 7 Canadian Airports that has US Border Pre-clearance facilities.

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Cargo facilities

Apron II is the main Cargo facility at the airport which can park up to four Boeing 747s. FedEx is among the cargo carriers that use Calgary as a hub. Purolator has a facility in the northwest corner of the field adjacent to Apron VII. Apron VII can hold two Boeing 727s but will be able to park an additional three McDonnell-Douglas MD-11s for FedEx in November 2004.

General aviation

General aviation facilities are located on the south side of the field. These facilities include a Shell Aerocenter, an Esso Avitat, Calgary Flight Training, a customs building, and more.

Runways

There is a plan to build a parallel runway east of the airport (16L-34R).

Runway 16-34 is the longest runway in Canada. This can be attributed to the relatively high elevation (3,556 ft, 1083 m) of the airport and the need to support the largest passenger aircraft types. Aircraft require more distance to takeoff at higher elevations, because of the reduced air density associated with altitude.

Construction

The Calgary International Airport is currently undergoing major upgrades and construction. The recent widening of Concourse C officially opened in December 2004. The B/C concourse will also be widened within the next year. The regional wing of the airport has also begun its phase of upgrades.

During the past couple of months the runways and taxiways have been improved and upgraded. Taxiway Hotel now connects concourse D with the main taxiway Charley which improves the traffic flow for Apron I.

Concourses

The terminal has three concourses:

Concourse A

Concourse B and C (International and Transborder)

On flights originating in Calgary, like at many other major Canadian airports, passengers bound for the United States go through U.S. customs and immigration prior to boarding their flights. The flight is then treated on arrival in the U.S. as a domestic flight.

Concourse D

The following airlines are not assigned to a particular concourse: Cargo airlines are:

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