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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HALIFAX Cutbacks to Atlantic Canada’s airline industry are expected to have devastating effects on the region’s airports as fewer travellers fly out east, and interprovincial workers could see the brunt of those cuts this holiday season. Effective Jan. 11, Air Canada is suspending all flights to Sydney, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., until further notice. Airport CEO Mike Mackinnon said Air Canada’s decision will be a blow to Cape Breton’s J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport. Atlantic airports are already struggling to make ends meet, and the move has only exacerbated the problem. Massive, catastrophe. Those are the words. The airport only makes, really, revenue from commercial passenger traffic, Mackinnon told CTV News.
SYDNEY, N.S. At a time of year when many Maritimers typically spend time with family, Air Canada’s recent cut of flight routes across the region may make it more difficult for families to connect. Effective Jan. 11, Air Canada is suspending all flights in Sydney, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., until further notice. The airline also announced, effective Jan. 11, it is suspending four routes in Charlottetown, Fredericton, Deer Lake, N.L., and Halifax until further notice. News that there will soon be no flights in or out of the J.A. McCurdy Airport in Sydney hits hard for the hundreds of rotational workers who fly back and forth between Cape Breton and jobs across the country.