Saskatoon International Airport, officially known as The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker International Airport, is an airport in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Its IATA Airport Code is YXE. Its ICAO Airport Code is CYXE.
The airport has 4 Jetbridges. Also, in 2001, traffic in YXE exceeded 800,000 passengers, making YXE the largest airport in the province.
Many people are disappointed in the naming of this airport after Diefenbaker, as he made what some believe to have been one of the most controversial policy decisions of the last century in Canada in 1959 when his government cancelled the development and manufacture of the Avro Arrow, a military aircraft. This is what many people felt caused the Canadian aviation industry to collapse.
Buddy of mine swore he saw an AC heavy on final descent in YXE this evening, presumably coming in from LHR.
I just talked to my sister in Kelowna who was about to make her third trip to the airport there to pick-up a friend who has been stranded in YYC most of the afternoon and evening because Westjet could not get out!!
Arrived YXE 1649 (1549 YYC time, so he was down to YYC and then diverted)
R06 6/7 -- transect to YXE -- 9:51 - 15:52 -- 0.2 Ci @ YYQ
R07 6/10 -- transect to YTH -- 10:08 - 16:30 -- clear @ YXE; 0.2 Ci candle lake; 0.2 Cu @ H, 0.1 Cu @ K; 0.3 Cu @H on return
R08 6/13 -- transect to YTH -- 9:05 - 13:43 -- OVC & rain YXE; slowly clearing @ L; few high clds after L; on return, rain increasing @ candle lake & eventually return @ 9K to YXE
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