Delays and cancellations continue at Toronto Pearson and Billy Bishop airports, but conditions are improving after a storm blanketing Toronto and the rest of the GTA with snow Thursday.
At Billy Bishop Airport in downtown Toronto, all Air Canada flights in and out of the island airport have been cancelled. Porter Airlines has also cancelled some flights.
Further west, multiple flights have been cancelled out of Toronto Pearson International Airport with several more experiencing delays. Nearly every single flight scheduled to depart before 4:30 p.m. Thursday has been delayed.
Data from FlightAware found that delays at Pearson were the worst in the world at its peak this afternoon with outgoing flights being delayed over an hour and inbound flights dealing with delays at their origin airport of an average of over two hours and 40 minutes.
Pearson said more than 20 centimetres of snow had fallen at the airport as of 4 p.m.
“Our surface maintenance specialists have been out in our state-of-the-art snowplows doing loops of the airfield to keep critical areas clear of snow,” read an update from the airport posted on X.
Air Canada added winter weather conditions are also causing delays in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa. You can find out more about what to do if your flight is cancelled here.
All passengers at both airports are encouraged to check the status of their flights for delays and cancellations before they head to the airport.
The current largest one-day snowfall record at Toronto Pearson this season is 12 centimetres, set on Dec. 26.
