Image: Saint John Airport
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.