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Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport
Ottawa/Macdonald–Cartier International Airport
or
Macdonald–Cartier International Airport
(
L'aéroport international Macdonald-Cartier
in French), in
Ottawa
,
Ontario
,
Canada
is an
international airport
named after Sir
John A. Macdonald
and Sir
George-Étienne Cartier
. Located in the south end of the city, south of
downtown Ottawa
, it is
Canada's sixth busiest airport
and Ontario's second busiest airport by airline passenger traffic and Canada's eighth busiest by aircraft movements, with 4,616,448 passengers and 154,637 aircraft movements in 2014. The airport is an
Air Canada
focus city and the home base for
First Air
. The airport is classified as an
airport of entry
by
Nav Canada
and is staffed by the
Canada Border Services Agency
. The airport is one of eight Canadian airports that have
United States border preclearance
facilities. The airport used to be a military base known as
CFB Ottawa South
/
CFB Uplands
.
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