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First Air Announces Realignment of Flight Schedule
April 15, 2010 — Ottawa — First Air, The Airline of the North, today announced changes to the scheduled route network to take effect June 1, 2010.
Effective June 1, 2010, First Air will make changes to the scheduled route network introducing new service to the community of Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. Service on “trans-territorial” flights between Yellowknife and Iqaluit will now operate between Yellowknife and Montreal with improved connections for the Rankin Inlet, and Iqaluit markets. As part of the realignment service on the Yellowknife-Edmonton market will be reduced from 16 round trip flights per week to 6 round trip flights each week.
“We are responding to changes in the marketplace and focusing our schedule on serving our core Northern Markets” says Scott Bateman, President and CEO of First Air. “With our previous expansion in the Kivalliq region, this current schedule realignment confirms our position as the key facilitator of economic activity throughout the Arctic.”
The schedule taking effect on June 1, 2010 will provide for enhanced connections throughout First Air’s extensive Northern route network. Same day connections are now possible every weekday from Rankin Inlet through to Nunavut’s capital, Iqaluit, with improved access to Ottawa and Montreal.
The introduction of service to Norman Wells will be offered four days per week as part of the current service to Inuvik.
First Air is the largest provider of passenger and cargo services to Canada’s northern communities in Nunavut, Nunavik, and the Northwest Territories with service to Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Montreal. With the addition of Norman Wells, First Air provides scheduled passenger and cargo services between 30 northern communities in the North. First Air employees live and work in the North, and remain dedicated to excellence in customer service and the belief in continuous improvement making First Air “The Airline of the North.”
Reservations can be made through First Air Reservations at 1-800-267-1247 or online at www.firstair.ca.
Contact: Terri Lynn Potter
Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Phone: 613-254-6417
tlpotter@firstair.ca