Toronto Pearson International Airport facts for kids

Lester B. Pearson International Airport (IATA: YYZ, ICAO: CYYZ), called the Toronto Pearson International Airport (or simply Pearson Airport or Toronto Pearson) is an international airport in the Greater Toronto Area. The airport is 22.5 km (14.0 mi) northwest of downtown Toronto, in Mississauga. The airport is named after Lester B. Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize winner and 14th Prime Minister of Canada.

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The airport's Terminal 1
Inside the airport
A WestJet Boeing 737 at the airport. WestJet is the second largest airline at Toronto.

Aerial view of the airport (2007). The airport's two north–south runways are visible in the left foreground, whereas its east–west runways are visible in the background.
Airport apron of Pearson, with the airport's infield operations, and main controller visible in the background (2013)
A UPS Airbus A300 unloads cargo at the airport's VISTA cargo facility (2015)
A passenger boards a TTC bus at Terminal 1 (2018)
A GO Transit bus arrives outside Terminal 1, providing coach service to areas across the Greater Toronto Area (2017)
The roadway exiting the airport provides access to several highways (2016)