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An Air North plane
Air North plans third flight between here and Ottawa
Air North will launch a third weekly summer flight connecting Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Ottawa between June 13 and Sept. 16.
Air North will launch a third weekly summer flight connecting Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Ottawa between June 13 and Sept. 16.
Air North inaugurated the route in 2013.
Currently, the airline’s Boeing 737 jets depart Whitehorse on Thursdays and Sundays, flying to Ottawa via Yellowknife, and returning the following day.
This summer, passengers will have the additional option of departing Whitehorse on Tuesdays, and leaving Ottawa on Wednesdays.
“This is one of our premier products,” chief commercial officer Allan Moore said Tuesday.
“These flights showcase our inimitable Air North hospitality, but are also practical and affordable. We are able to offer base one-way fares between Ottawa and Yellowknife for as low as $227, between Ottawa and Whitehorse for as low as $267, and between Yellowknife and Whitehorse for $110.”
Air North is the first airline to offer scheduled service on this route.
“As our name indicates, serving the North is part of our mandate,” said Joe Sparling, the airline’s president and CEO.
“It made good sense to us to connect two of the northern capitals with the national capital, especially given the number of federal government employees travelling north.
“Previously, the only way to access Ottawa, Yellowknife, or Whitehorse from one another was to go south. We’ve taken out that extra step, and we’ve seen tremendous uptake among northerners and visitors alike.
“Our hope is to see it grow even more so that we can make this third weekly flight a year- round benefit.”
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67scotty10 on Apr 14, 2016 at 11:00 am
No excuses now for the government employees who do not use our own Airline to say that the flights to Ottawa are not on convenient days for them. Shame on them. Is it because they can get a later flight with Air Canada and stay overnight in Vancouver in a fancy hotel (at the tax payers expense) and fly the next day to Ottawa?
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67scotty10 on Apr 13, 2016 at 5:17 pm
This is good news - Yukon Government employees who have to travel to Ottawa MUST use this airline. It is our own.
Yukon Government has been supporting Air Canada.
Things must change.
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GaiaHypothesis on Apr 13, 2016 at 4:40 pm
Fantastic news - now we have a thrice-weekly bureaucrat shuttle, hauling dozens more per diem-boosting feds and territorials between their essential office meetings ( that neither skype nor teleconferencing nor any one of another dozen media platforms could possibly emulate ). The expense-claim express now adds another 50% to those upper air emissions . Hallelujah!