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Atlantic Canadian airports are applauding the federal government’s plan to provide billions of dollars of financial support to Air Canada.
The federal government agreed this week to give Air Canada $5.9-billion to help the airline through the Covid-19 pandemic.
As part of the deal, Air Canada must bring service back to airports it abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic, including six in Atlantic Canada.
The airline will bring back weekly flights to Montreal from Saint John, Fredericton, and Bathurst. It will run a flight between Sydney and Toronto, another between Gander and Halifax, and another between Goose Bay and Saint John.
Airports around here are hoping the addition of flights by PAL Airlines is a sign of recovery for the aviation industry, which has been hit hard by the pandemic.
Posted: Mar 01, 2021 8:22 PM AT | Last Updated: March 2
Air service to Atlantic Canada, already slashed because of COVID-19 travel restrictions, could be facing another blow.(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
Halifax-based Jazz will take over all regional flights for Air Canada Express in an industry consolidation that could limit service long term to smaller communities after the pandemic.
Jazz a subsidiary of Chorus Aviation will fly more aircraft and use bigger jets, but retire its fleet of smaller planes that serve rural airports.
The announcement Monday is part of a revised capacity purchase agreement with Chorus that Air Canada said will save it $400 million over 15 years.
HALIFAX Air Canada has told airports in Atlantic Canada that it will suspend more routes in the region until further notice. Effective Jan. 23, the airline will suspend all service in Gander, N.L., Goose Bay, N.L., and Fredericton, N.B., the Atlantic Canada Airports Association says. The cuts come just days after Air Canada’s latest […]