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All WestJet Link flights were operated by Pacific Coastal using its fleet of 34-seat Saab 340 aircraft. Only the first two WestJet Link aircraft display the word 'Link' on the livery, the rest used the standard WestJet colours. [11] As of September 2023, Pacific Coastal Airlines had 5 Saab 340s painted and operating for WestJet Link [12] [13]
In 2008, YXC served over 106,277 passengers [citation needed] and in 2010 had 15,060 aircraft movements. [3] In 2017 YXC served 134,455 passengers, peaked in 2018 serving 184,973 passengers and in 2022 has rebounded from a low of 56,901 passengers during the Covid-19 Pandemic to serve 138,700 passengers, a 145% increase year over year from 2021 ...
WestJet Link, launched in June 2018, was a capacity purchase agreement with Pacific Coastal Airlines operating flights on behalf of WestJet. [110] The service "link[ed]" passengers from WestJet's hubs at Calgary and Vancouver to smaller communities in Western Canada using Saab 340B aircraft. [111]
On May 13, 2024, WestJet announced that its aircraft capacity purchase agreement with Pacific Coastal was completed, and would not be renewed. Consequently, the airline announced that WestJet Link would be shut down on October 26 of that year and all operations would be transferred to WestJet Encore by no later than the following day. [15]
CFB Comox is the primary air defense installation on Canada's Pacific coast and serves as the home base for maritime patrol/anti-submarine aircraft and fixed-wing and rotary-wing search and rescue (SAR) aircraft. Its primary lodger unit, 19 Wing, has two operational squadrons: 407 Maritime Patrol Squadron flying the Lockheed CP-140 Aurora
Charters, aircraft registered as Manan Air Services [95] Bar XH Air: BXH: PALLISER [96] 2 [97] Medicine Hat: Charters and MEDIVAC (air ambulance). Formerly part of Integra Air [98] Bearskin Airlines: 1861 [99] JV: BLS: BEARSKIN [100] 49 [101] Sioux Lookout, Thunder Bay: Aircraft owned by Perimeter Aviation. Regional, scheduled passenger service ...
In 2010, the Nanaimo Airport Commission announced the completion of a significant runway expansion. The runway length increased by almost 1,600 ft (490 m) to accommodate larger aircraft, as well as the addition of a third taxiway (labelled Charlie), to allow direct access to the threshold of runway 16.
Prior to the formation of WestJet Encore, WestJet Airlines, Inc. internal studies concluded in 2005, when the company had 50 Boeing 737 aircraft, that WestJet would saturate the Canadian commercial airline market when it reached a 90–100 Boeing 737 aircraft fleet. WestJet Airlines became the second-largest airline in Canada in 2002. [5]