Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
YUL
Airport information
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Montreal, CanadaIATA: YULICAO: CYUL
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
2 runways · Longest runway: 11,001 ft
- 06L/24R11,000 ft · heading 43/223 degrees
- 06R/24L9,600 ft · heading 41/221 degrees
We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Practical
Plan your trip
Transport by train, bus, and taxi; parking at the airport; picking someone up or dropping them off.
Fly direct
Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
YYZCanada
Toronto
- Distance
- 315 mi
- Estimated duration
- 55m
- Airlines
Air Canada · Air Transat · +4
Air Canada · Air Transat · Jazz Aviation · Porter Airlines · Royal Jordanian · WestJet
YTZCanada
Toronto
- Distance
- 306 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 2m
- Airlines
Air Canada · Jazz Aviation · +3
Air Canada · Jazz Aviation · Porter Airlines · Propair · Tradewind Aviation
YQBCanada
Québec
- Distance
- 145 mi
- Estimated duration
- 32m
- Airlines
Air Canada · Air Canada Rouge · +5
Air Canada · Air Canada Rouge · Air Inuit · Air Transat · Jazz Aviation · PAL Airlines · Propair
LGAUnited States
New York
- Distance
- 324 mi
- Estimated duration
- 57m
- Airlines
Air Canada · Endeavor Air · +3
Air Canada · Endeavor Air · Jazz Aviation · Republic Airways · Starlink Aviation
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- MontrealMontréal / Saint-Hubert Metropolitan AirportYHU16 mi19 destinations
- MontrealMontreal Mirabel International AirportYMX20 mi15 destinations
- BurlingtonPatrick Leahy Burlington International AirportBTV75 mi28 destinations
- OttawaOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International AirportYOW94 mi44 destinations
- QuébecQuebec Jean Lesage International AirportYQB145 mi34 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- City and country
- Montreal, Canada
- IATA / ICAO
- YUL / CYUL
- Time zone
- America/Toronto
- Category
- International hub
Montréal-Trudeau: the gateway to Québec
Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (IATA YUL, ICAO CYUL), still called Dorval by many Montrealers, lies about twenty kilometers west of downtown Montréal. It is the busiest airport in Québec and the third in Canada, a hub for Air Canada and the home of Air Transat, and one of the most European-facing airports in North America: the routes to Paris, Lyon, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon and Casablanca reflect the city's French and Mediterranean ties. The live radar on this page shows the traffic around Montréal; the arrivals and departures pages are linked above it. Montréal is six hours behind Central Europe.
Airlines and destinations
Air Canada, with its regional partner Jazz and leisure arm Rouge, is by far the largest airline, flying across Canada, to the United States, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Lyon, Geneva, Rome and beyond; Air Transat is the second, with Europe and the sun destinations of the Caribbean and Mexico, and Porter and WestJet compete on the domestic routes. Air France flies to Paris several times a day, KLM to Amsterdam, Lufthansa to Frankfurt and Munich, SWISS to Zurich, Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca and Qatar Airways to Doha, while American Airlines, Delta and United connect their US hubs. In our route data, Toronto, Québec City, New York LaGuardia, Ottawa and Chicago are the most frequently flown connections, and Paris Charles de Gaulle by far the busiest transatlantic route.
Getting downtown
The 747 bus of the STM runs around the clock between the airport, the downtown bus terminal and the Lionel-Groulx metro station, taking 45 to 70 minutes depending on traffic, with a ticket that is valid for 24 hours on the whole network. Taxis charge a flat fare downtown and take 20 to 40 minutes; Uber and Lyft pick up at marked zones. Rental cars are in the arrivals hall. A station of the REM light-rail network at the airport is under construction and will cut the trip downtown to about 25 minutes when it opens; check whether it is running before you count on it.
Good to know
Trudeau has a single terminal in three sections: domestic, international, and the US departures zone, where passengers clear US customs and immigration before boarding, so arrive early for American flights. Visitors from visa-exempt countries need an eTA (electronic travel authorization) obtained online before flying to Canada. The transatlantic flights leave in a bunch in the evening, and the security lines are longest between five and nine o'clock. Canada's other big gateway is Toronto Pearson; Québec City has a few direct flights from Europe in summer, and Mirabel, the airport that was meant to replace Dorval, handles only cargo and industry today. Every airport we track is listed in the airport overview.