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Here's how to see the biggest planes land at Toronto Pearson Airport

Jack Landau

created: Sept. 7, 2025, 4:01 a.m. | updated: Sept. 8, 2025, 8:52 p.m.

Plane-spotting near Toronto Pearson International Airport has never been more popular thanks to daily incoming flights from some of the largest planes in the world, offering regularly scheduled spectacles in the sky. When planes are landing or taking off at runway 05/23, you will usually find crowds of plane-watchers amassed along Airport Road at Orlando Drive. For planes landing or taking off from runway 06R/24L, you'll want to head over to a gravel area along a bend on Convair Drive. Both planes now make daily appearances at Pearson, and you can keep track of them using the flight numbers on air traffic tracking apps. While Lufthansa is the only regularly-scheduled 747 you'll catch at Pearson, less frequent cargo flights also operate out of the airport using this enormous aircraft.

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