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Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)

Ottawa, Canada · ICAO CYOW · IATA YOW

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Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (CYOW)143207250422
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Ottawa, Canada
ICAO code
CYOW
IATA code
YOW
Elevation
374 ft
Longest runway
10,000 ft (14/32)
Runways
3
Size class
Large
Position
45.3225, -75.6692

About CYOW

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) is a large airport in Ottawa, Canada, with the ICAO code CYOW. Its 3 runways are 14/32, 07/25 and 04/22. The longest, 14/32, is 10,000 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 34 gates, 188 taxiway segments, 18 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 38 airlines have 1,031 routes through CYOW. Its most frequent links are Toronto (YYZ), Toronto (YTZ) and Halifax (YHZ).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
14 / 3210,000 ft200 ftHardLit
07 / 258,000 ft200 ftHardLit
04 / 223,300 ft75 ftHardNot lit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Air Canada ACA175 routes
  • Porter POE169 routes
  • Jazz JZA161 routes
  • WestJet WJA79 routes
  • Flair FLE42 routes
  • Air Transat TSC33 routes
  • Rouge ROU31 routes
  • United UAL25 routes
  • Republic RPA14 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: PTR, SWG, PVL, TCF, SSV, AKT.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.