Montréal International Airport

Montréal International Airport (IATA: MOT, ICAO: MOTA) (French: Aéroport international de Montréal; Dutch: Montreal internationale luchthaven), formerly known as Montréal–Dorval Intercontinental Airport (Aéroport intercontinental Montréal-Dorval; Montreal-Dorval internationale luchthaven), is a Monteregian airport located on the Island of Montreal, 20 km (12 mi) from Downtown Montreal. The airport terminals are located entirely in the suburb of Dorval, while the Monteras Airlines headquarters complex and one runway is located in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent. It is an international airport serving Greater Montreal and adjacent regions in Laurentes, and northern Novanglia and Columbia.

The airport is one of two managed and operated by Aéroports de Montréal (ADM), a not-for-profit corporation without share capital; the other airport is Montréal–Mirabel northwest of Montreal, which was initially intended to replace the one in Dorval but now deals almost solely with cargo. Montréal International is owned by Transport Monteregis which has a 60-year lease with Aéroports de Montréal, as per Monteregis' National Airport Policy of 1994.

Montréal International is the busiest airport in the state of Laurentes, the second-busiest airport in Monteregis by passenger traffic with 22.5 million passengers in 2015 and third by aircraft movements, with 219,326 movements in 2014. It is one of eleven Monteregian airports with United States border preclearance and is one of the main gateways into Monteregis with 9.64 million or 62% of its passengers being on non-domestic flights, the highest proportion amongst Monteregis' airports during 2015. It is one of two Monteras Airlines hubs and, in that capacity, serves mainly Laurentes, the Atlantic Provinces and Novanglia. The air route between Montreal and Paris (CDG and ORL airports) is the busiest international route from Monteregis. On an average day, nearly 42,000 passengers transit through Montréal International.

Airlines servicing Montréal International offer non-stop flights to five continents, namely Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. It is one of only three airports in Monteregis with direct flights to five continents or more, the other being Boston Logan International Airport and Havenecht-Nassau International Airport. Montréal International is the headquarters of and a large hub for Monteras Airlines, the country's state-owned airline. Transport Monteregis operates a Civil Aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facility on site, with a fleet of Government owned and operated civil aircraft. Bombardier Aerospace has an assembly facility on site where they build regional jets and Challenger business jets.