Mackenzie International Airport

Mackenzie International Airport is an airport in Mackenzie, British Columbia.

= Description =

AirRail Connector
The airport terminal building is located one-half mile to the east of the depot of BC Rail's Mackenzie Station. By the late 1970s, numerous complaints from the travelling public about the inconvenience of the connection between the two via the city busses of the Mackenzie Transit Authority - a route-distance of 1¾ miles - led to the city authorities to examine the possibility of an automated "people mover" system such as those opened in the United States (specifically, at Miami and Seattle airports) in the early years of that decade to connect the two.

Tenders were issued in 1985, and in 1986 the city accepted the proposal of the French Matra company for a fully-automated system using rubber-tired VAL 206 two-car trainsets in an elevated guideway; construction was funded in part by surcharges: £5 added to all air tickets using Mackenzie Airport, £1.5s.- to all parking tickets in the airport parkade (in addition to the regular parking fees), and 7/6 to tickets on the Airport Express bus connecting the airport to the Crowne Plaza Mackenzie hotel at 9 Stuart Drive in downtown Mackenzie. Given the name AirRail Connector, it was opened to the public in 1994; it is free of charge to all passengers with a valid air or railway ticket, whilst tickets for non-passengers cost one crown (5/-).

The line has a total length of 1,482 yards, is double-tracked, and has three stations: Railway Station (0 yd), Parkade (724 yd), and Air Terminal (758 yd)

= Airlines and destinations = Northern Thunderbird Air maintains Mackenzie as its primary hub with its main service facilities located at this airport.