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    "addressCountry": "Canada",
    "addressLocality": "Port-Menier"
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    "Air Canada"
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  "connection_tips": "Port-Menier Airport serves as the primary aerial gateway to UNESCO World Heritage Site Anticosti Island, located 2.7 nautical miles east of Port-Menier, Quebec. The island's 3,047 square miles offer extraordinary geological formations earning UNESCO geopark designation, requiring advance planning for extended stays given limited accommodation options and transportation schedules. Ground transportation is limited to village shuttle services, rental vehicles, and accommodations like the purple Gite du Copaco with on-site smokehouse or municipal camping at Pointe du Ch\u00e2teau. Weather considerations include harsh St. Lawrence River maritime conditions with frequent fog, high winds, and rapid temperature changes affecting flight operations year-round.\n\nThe airport supports Anticosti's unique tourism industry including fossil hunting, white-tailed deer viewing, salmon fishing on Jupiter River, and exploring Vaur\u00e9al Falls within Anticosti National Park's 80 miles of hiking trails. Built in the 1970s as a private airstrip for Consolidated Bathurst Inc. 's forestry operations, the airport transformed into public infrastructure after the Quebec Government purchased the island in 1974. Passengers should prepare for basic services, coordinate accommodation reservations well in advance, and consider weather-related delays common to Gulf of St. Flight connections coordinate with Relais Nordik's Bella Desgagn\u00e9s ferry service departing Rimouski Monday nights, stopping Sept-\u00celes, arriving Port-Menier Tuesday nights, returning Sundays.\n\nThe single runway and small terminal building require careful coordination during peak summer tourist season from June through September. With over 100,000 white-tailed deer creating North America's highest concentration density, the island attracts hunters during September-December seasons. Regular flights operate from Sept-\u00celes, Havre-Saint-Pierre, and Baie-Comeau on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with varying schedules and fares ranging from $162-518 depending on origin. Lawrence operations.",
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  "frequent_traveler_tip": [
    "Check current schedules for transfers through Port-Menier Airport.",
    "Check your flight status before leaving for the airport.",
    "Allow extra time during peak travel periods at this airport.",
    "Keep important documents easily accessible at this airport.",
    "Download your airline's mobile app for updates at this airport."
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  "iataCode": "YPN",
  "icao": "CYPN",
  "international": false,
  "last_modified": "June 2026",
  "last_updated": "2026-03-29",
  "latitude": 49.836399,
  "layover_planner_info": "Amenities are limited; plan ahead for layovers.",
  "longitude": -64.288597,
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  "mct_domestic_to_international": 90,
  "mct_interline": 120,
  "mct_international_to_domestic": 90,
  "mct_international_to_international": 120,
  "missed_connection_help": "Contact airline or airport staff for assistance.",
  "name": "Port-Menier Airport",
  "region": "North America",
  "related_airports": [
    {
      "code": "YYZ",
      "name": "Toronto Pearson International"
    },
    {
      "code": "YGP",
      "name": "Michel-Pouliot Gasp\u00e9 Airport"
    },
    {
      "code": "YLP",
      "name": "Mingan Airport"
    }
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  "terminal_info": "Port-Menier Airport serves Anticosti Island\u2014the 'Cemetery of the Gulf' with over 400 documented shipwrecks\u2014purchased in 1895 for $125,000 by French chocolate magnate Henri Menier who transformed this 217-kilometer wilderness into his private hunting paradise, introducing 220 white-tailed deer that exploded to today's 100,000+ population without natural predators. Located 2.7 nautical miles east of the village Menier built in 1900 at Ellis Bay after abandoning shallow Bay Sainte-Claire, this facility provides essential access to Quebec's island originally granted to explorer Louis Jolliet by Louis XIV in 1680 as reward for Mississippi and Hudson Bay explorations.\n\nThe airport features a single runway supporting Air Liaison scheduled service to Sept-\u00celes and Havre-St-Pierre, connecting the island one-quarter Belgium's size where Menier also introduced foxes, fishers, reindeer, bison, and moose to create North America's most exclusive hunting reserve. Terminal facilities serve the 3,000-4,000 annual hunters pursuing descendants of Menier's original deer herd across this Provincial Wildlife Reserve since Quebec purchased it back in 1974 from lumber interests who paid Menier's brother Gaston $6,000,000 in 1926\u2014a 4,700% return on Henri's 1895 investment.\n\nOperational characteristics center on supporting tourism operations in the village Menier established with a 1,000-meter wharf along the waterfront, where provision stores once sustained sailors from the hundreds of ships wrecked on Anticosti's treacherous shores earning its macabre nickname. The facility handles charter flights for hunting expeditions, emergency evacuations from this isolated Gulf of St. Lawrence location, and cargo supporting the sparse permanent population mostly descended from lighthouse keepers the Canadian government stationed around the island's dangerous coastline.\n\nStrategic importance encompasses maintaining access to where European overhunting nearly eradicated fish and wildlife by the 1890s before Menier's conservation-through-privatization restored ecological balance, supporting the outdoor tourism economy centered on deer hunting and fishing that replaced Menier's chocolate fortune and subsequent lumber operations, preserving connections to maritime history marked by 400+ shipwrecks creating underwater archaeological treasures, and ensuring aviation links to this unique ecosystem where one man's private vision created an ecological experiment\u2014introducing species that transformed an island's entire biological landscape while inadvertently creating North America's densest deer population.",
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}