Carpool Cape Breton: Rotational workers join forces after loss of flight service in Sydney
Cape Breton rotational workers are banding together to save time and money driving back and forth to Halifax to catch flights now that the island is cut off from passenger air travel.
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Port Hawkesbury, NS, Canada / 101.5 The Hawk
Jan 15, 2021 7:11 AM
The operator of Port Hawkesbury’s airport says there are real opportunities following repeated service reductions by the major players.
David Morgan, the president of Celtic Air Services which operates the Allan J. MacEachen Port Hawkesbury Airport, says the air industry is changing, and airports have a new role to play.
Morgan tells The Hawk that includes working will smaller players to support the development of regional carriers.
“I think that there’s a great opportunity right now for a right-sized approach to providing commuter service within the Atlantic provinces.”
Morgan says Celtic Air isn’t in the position to take the lead on that enterprise- they’re too small- but they still have a role to play.
HALIFAX Air Canada has announced they are suspending operations at another Maritime airport. A spokesperson from Air Canada confirmed to CTV News on Tuesday that the airline will suspend operations out of the Fredericton International Airport, effective Jan. 23. “This decision was not taken lightly and we regret the impact on our customers and communities, but it is increasingly difficult to continue to operate in this challenging environment,” said Pascale Déry, Air Canada’s Director of Media Relations for Quebec-Eastern Canada-Europe. The decision to suspend operations in Fredericton is just the latest in a series of blows to commercial air service in Atlantic Canada.
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An Air Canada jet takes off from Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Enfield, N.S. on Thursday, March 8, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan January 11, 2021 - 12:13 PM
HALIFAX - Air Canada s service cuts in Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick risk slowing the entire region s economic recovery, the CEO of a regional airport authority said Monday.
The airline s decision to cut service to Saint John, N.B., and to Sydney, N.S. â which leaves those cities without any commercial air service â will have far-reaching effects, Derrick Stanford, president of the Saint John Airport Authority, said in an interview.
Commercial planes stopped flying out of those airports Monday morning. Air Canada announced last month it would be cutting all service to the two airports and reducing service to Deer Lake, N.L., Charlottetown, Fredericton and Halifax.
HALIFAX Some of Atlantic Canada’s airports are going without commercial service starting today following Air Canada’s decision to cancel flights to Sydney, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision announced in December leaves the Saint John Airport and the J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport without commercial air service. President and […]