About Our Toronto Pearson Airport Guide

An independent guide for passengers flying through YYZ: terminals, transport, layovers, and the details that keep changing.

Who we are

We are an independent editorial team. We are not the airport, not an airline, and not a booking agency.

This site is a privately run guide to Toronto Pearson International Airport. We have no affiliation with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Air Canada, WestJet, Metrolinx, or any other operator named on these pages, and nobody pays us to recommend one terminal, train, or hotel over another. That independence is the point. It lets us write that the UP Express usually beats a taxi during the afternoon rush, or that the quiet corner of Terminal 1 everyone recommends for sleeping sits directly under an announcement speaker.

What this guide covers

Around fifty guides in sixteen languages, built around what passengers actually search for at two in the morning: which terminal their airline uses, where to leave a suitcase for six hours, how to reach downtown without paying taxi rates, whether a January de-icing queue will swallow a tight connection. We write for the traveller landing at YYZ for the first time, the one stuck with a long layover and no plan, and the Toronto resident who flies often enough to want the shortcuts.

How we check what we publish

Every fare, opening time, terminal assignment, and journey length comes from a primary source: the airport, the airline, Metrolinx, the TTC, or the operator's own booking page. Each guide carries the date we last verified it, because airport information ages badly. Gates move, fares rise, lounges close for renovation. Where we cannot confirm a detail, we say so instead of guessing. Do still check your own terminal and flight status with your airline before you travel, because we are a guide, not an operator.

“Airport information is only worth anything if it is still true on the day you need it.”

Our editorial standard

How the site pays for itself

The guides are free to read, funded by advertising and by affiliate links to services such as transfers, car rentals, and hotels. Book through one of those links and we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. What we recommend never depends on who pays: we name the cheapest sensible option even when it earns us nothing, and we say plainly when a paid service is not worth the money. Our Privacy Policy covers advertising cookies, and our Terms cover the rest.

Tell us when we get something wrong

A fare that changed last month, a shuttle that no longer runs, a food court that moved to the other end of the pier: if you spot it before we do, write to us through the contact page. Corrections from readers who were standing in the actual queue are the fastest way this guide improves, and we update the page and its verification date as soon as we can confirm the change.

Working out what to do with the hours between flights? Our partner GetExperience lists tours and activities around Toronto, including a few short enough to fit a long layover and still get you back through security in time.