Canada’s latest low cost airline introduced Friday that its first scheduled flight will take off in late September.
Canada Jetlines will start operations out of its journey hub at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport on Sept. 22, with biweekly flights jetting from Toronto to Calgary and again on Thursdays and Sundays.
“The launch of Canada Jetlines is yet one more milestone marking restoration within the journey and tourism sector,” stated Bob Sartor, president and CEO of the Calgary Airport Authority.
As of Friday, flights on the Canada Jetlines web site that fly one-way from Calgary to Toronto had been priced at $99 on the most cost-effective charge, and $254 on the highest charge. Flight cancellation and checked baggage is on the market at increased charges.
The airline flies the Airbus A320 as its customary, beginning with a kind of plane in 2022. The airline says it expects to fly 15 plane by 2025. The A320 is an all-economy jet with 174 seats.
Ravinder Minhas, a founding board member of the airline, beforehand advised CBC Information in Might 2021 that Canada Jetlines regarded it as a constructive time to launch, regardless of airways having misplaced billions of {dollars} at that time.
“We had been in a position to get airplanes at one heck of a value,” Minhas stated, including the airline would quickly be capable to provide flights to solar locations with cheaper fares.
Canada Jetlines beforehand deliberate to launch earlier this yr from Toronto to Winnipeg and Moncton, however delayed and rescheduled that launch whereas awaiting its air working certificates.
The airline says extra routes to different locations will probably be introduced quickly.
Rise of low-cost airways
Canada Jetlines is the newest in a string of low-cost airways now working within the nation.
After launching as a constitution airline in 2004, Aptitude Airways started providing common service in 2018. Lynx Air, which operates a fleet of Boeing 737s, launched earlier this yr.
John Gradek, a college lecturer with McGill College’s aviation administration program, stated the rise of low-cost airways has been a pattern because the business recovers from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“There was fairly a couple of carriers that had parked airplanes throughout COVID. They usually’re slowly taking these airplanes out of storage and bringing them again,” he stated.
“However there’s a possibility for plenty of carriers to, the truth is, take a look at getting airplanes that had been saved, after which getting these plane into their very own fleet by both negotiating a cope with a leasing firm or shopping for previous airplanes outright.”
Gradek stated he expects plenty of carriers will present up with completely different service ranges and completely different routes in order to create a unique area of interest within the market.
“Canada through the years has seen its fair proportion of decrease value carriers coming,” he stated. “The longevity for these carriers is a perform of the power of the economic system. And, you understand, how aggressive the prevailing carriers are in making an attempt to fulfill or beat the value and repair degree supplied by these carriers. So it is one thing we watch as these carriers evolve.”
He added will probably be necessary for Canada Jetlines to shortly add to its fleet past its first Airbus A320 in order to stop delays ought to mechanical or different points come up.
