Posted: Jun 01, 2021 6:52 PM AT | Last Updated: June 1
The Cabot Trail is a popular destination for Nova Scotians and tourists alike. Destination Cape Breton and the province s hotel association have written to Premier Iain Rankin, asking him to set firm dates in the province s reopening plan.(Destination Cape Breton)
Commercial flights are set to resume at Atlantic airports at the end of June and the addition of a regional carrier from Newfoundland and Labrador is adding options at some Maritime cities.
With the summer months around the corner, many airports are still struggling to hold on as the COVID-19 pandemic halts many commercial flights in Atlantic Canada.
SYDNEY, N.S. It s been more than three months since the last commercial flight touched the tarmac at the Sydney airport and now it looks like it could be a while longer before the service returns. Air Canada has communicated that the Toronto flight that was scheduled to start June 2 is now pushed back to June 26, said Sydney airport CEO Mike MacKinnon. Flights to Halifax will not start now until at least July 1. PAL Airlines who had been planning to start flights three times a week from Sydney to Halifax on May 31, have also been grounded. Nobody wants to restart service and then have to shut it down again, MacKinnon said. I d rather we do it right and when the time is right and when we can do it safely with minimal disruptions going forward.
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.