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  "category": "Economy",
  "title": "Passengers at Victoria International Airport",
  "geography": "Victoria International Airport (YYJ)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Airlines and travellers",
    "Federal (aviation)"
  ],
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  "display_value": "1.93M",
  "unit": "passengers on and off, 2025",
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
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    "change_percent": 5.7
  },
  "trend": "context",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "Shown for context, without a better or worse label: it measures travel, which brings visitors and business but also noise and emissions.",
  "trend_basis": "1,931,201 passengers enplaned and deplaned in 2025 against 1,827,361 in 2024 (+5.7%). 2019, before the pandemic: 1,852,962.",
  "since_text": "1,827,361 in 2024. 1,852,962 in 2019, before the pandemic.",
  "caveats": [
    "Passengers enplaned and deplaned on scheduled and charter flights, as airports report them to Statistics Canada. A traveller who flies out and back is counted twice.",
    "Passenger counts by sector (domestic, United States, other international) are shown below the chart where Statistics Canada publishes them."
  ],
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      "title": "Passengers on and off planes at Victoria International Airport",
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              "period": "2023",
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      "label": "Domestic",
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  "data_published": "2026-07-21",
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    "name": "Statistics Canada, air passenger traffic at Canadian airports, table 23-10-0253-01",
    "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=2310025301",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/86e2e0c7-150b-4a2b-b90c-ebc62f26f8a2",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=2310025301",
    "table": "23-10-0253-01",
    "publisher_page": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/transportation",
    "locator": "Table 23-10-0253-01: Victoria International, British Columbia; Total, passengers enplaned and deplaned; 2025",
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  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
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  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 23-10-0253-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:22:24Z",
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      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "Airlines and travellers decide."
    },
    {
      "body": "CAN",
      "name": "Government of Canada and Parliament",
      "decides": "Regulates aviation and airports.",
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          "label": "Aeronautics Act, s. 4.2",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-2/FullText.html"
        }
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    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": "A count of travellers, shown for context."
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