Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)
A working profile of Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport in Ottawa, Canada: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport
- Serves: Ottawa, Canada
- Coordinates: 45.3225, -75.6692
- Elevation: 374 ft
- Time zone: America/Toronto
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport sits inside the air network of Canada. It shows 45 distinct scheduled departures across 26 destinations and 13 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from YOW
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YFB | Iqaluit Airport | Iqaluit | Canada | YOW→YFB | 3 |
| YHZ | Halifax / Stanfield International Airport | Halifax | Canada | YOW→YHZ | 3 |
| YYZ | Lester B. Pearson International Airport | Toronto | Canada | YOW→YYZ | 3 |
| CLT | Charlotte Douglas International Airport | Charlotte | United States | YOW→CLT | 2 |
| PHL | Philadelphia International Airport | Philadelphia | United States | YOW→PHL | 2 |
| BOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | Boston | United States | YOW→BOS | 2 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | YOW→FRA | 2 |
| IAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington | United States | YOW→IAD | 2 |
| LGA | La Guardia Airport | New York | United States | YOW→LGA | 2 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | YOW→LHR | 2 |
| ORD | Chicago O'Hare International Airport | Chicago | United States | YOW→ORD | 2 |
| YEG | Edmonton International Airport | Edmonton | Canada | YOW→YEG | 2 |
| YQM | Greater Moncton International Airport | Moncton | Canada | YOW→YQM | 2 |
| YWG | Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport | Winnipeg | Canada | YOW→YWG | 2 |
| YYC | Calgary International Airport | Calgary | Canada | YOW→YYC | 2 |
| YYT | St. John's International Airport | St. John's | Canada | YOW→YYT | 2 |
| YZF | Yellowknife Airport | Yellowknife | Canada | YOW→YZF | 1 |
| DCA | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport | Washington | United States | YOW→DCA | 1 |
| YFC | Fredericton Airport | Fredericton | Canada | YOW→YFC | 1 |
| YQB | Quebec Jean Lesage International Airport | Quebec | Canada | YOW→YQB | 1 |
| YUL | Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport | Montreal | Canada | YOW→YUL | 1 |
| YVR | Vancouver International Airport | Vancouver | Canada | YOW→YVR | 1 |
| YXU | London Airport | London | Canada | YOW→YXU | 1 |
| DTW | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport | Detroit | United States | YOW→DTW | 1 |
| YTZ | Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport | Toronto | Canada | YOW→YTZ | 1 |
| EWR | Newark Liberty International Airport | Newark | United States | YOW→EWR | 1 |
Airlines operating at YOW
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from YOW |
|---|---|---|---|
| AC | Air Canada | Canada | 19 |
| WS | WestJet | Canada | 6 |
| UA | United Airlines | United States | 5 |
| PD | Porter Airlines | Canada | 3 |
| AA | American Airlines | United States | 2 |
| LH | Lufthansa Cargo | Germany | 2 |
| US | US Airways | United States | 2 |
| 4N | Air North Charter - Canada | Canada | 1 |
| 5T | Canadian North | Canada | 1 |
| 7F | First Air | Canada | 1 |
| DL | Delta Air Lines | United States | 1 |
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 1 |
| MO | Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into YOW typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YHZ | Halifax / Stanfield International Airport | Halifax | Canada | 3 |
| YZF | Yellowknife Airport | Yellowknife | Canada | 2 |
| YFB | Iqaluit Airport | Iqaluit | Canada | 2 |
| CLT | Charlotte Douglas International Airport | Charlotte | United States | 2 |
| PHL | Philadelphia International Airport | Philadelphia | United States | 2 |
| BOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | Boston | United States | 2 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | 2 |
| IAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington | United States | 2 |
| LGA | La Guardia Airport | New York | United States | 2 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | 2 |
| ORD | Chicago O'Hare International Airport | Chicago | United States | 2 |
| YEG | Edmonton International Airport | Edmonton | Canada | 2 |
| YQM | Greater Moncton International Airport | Moncton | Canada | 2 |
| YWG | Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport | Winnipeg | Canada | 2 |
| YYC | Calgary International Airport | Calgary | Canada | 2 |
| YYT | St. John's International Airport | St. John's | Canada | 2 |
| YYZ | Lester B. Pearson International Airport | Toronto | Canada | 2 |
| DCA | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport | Washington | United States | 1 |
| YFC | Fredericton Airport | Fredericton | Canada | 1 |
| YQB | Quebec Jean Lesage International Airport | Quebec | Canada | 1 |
| YUL | Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport | Montreal | Canada | 1 |
| YVR | Vancouver International Airport | Vancouver | Canada | 1 |
| YXU | London Airport | London | Canada | 1 |
| DTW | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport | Detroit | United States | 1 |
| YTZ | Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport | Toronto | Canada | 1 |
| EWR | Newark Liberty International Airport | Newark | United States | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from YOW on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list YOW to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat YOW as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.