List of airlines of the Northwest Territories
Appearance
This is a list of airlines of the Northwest Territories which have an air operator's certificate issued by Transport Canada, the country's civil aviation authority. These are airlines that are based in the Northwest Territories.
Current airlines
[edit]Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Hub airport(s) | Notes |
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Air Tindi | 8T | Yellowknife, Fort Simpson |
Scheduled passenger service, charters. Owned by Discovery Air.[1][2] | |||
Aklak Air | 6L | AKK | AKLAK | Inuvik (Mike Zubko) | Scheduled passenger service, charters. Part of the Inuvialuit Development Corporation.[3] | |
Buffalo Airways | J4 | BFL | BUFFALO | Hay River | Scheduled passenger service, charters, cargo, aerial firefighting. featured on Ice Pilots NWT.[4] | |
Canadian North | 5T | MPE | EMPRESS | Yellowknife | Scheduled passenger service, charter airline[5] | |
Northwestern Air | J3 | PLR | POLARIS | Fort Smith | Scheduled passenger service, charters, cargo[6] | |
North-Wright Airways | HW | NWL | NORTHWRIGHT | Norman Wells | Scheduled passenger service, charters[7] | |
Summit Air | Yellowknife | Charters[8] |
Defunct airlines
[edit]Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Hub airport(s) | Notes |
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Arctic Sunwest Charters | ARCTIC SUNWEST | Yellowknife | 1989 – 2013 Bought by the Ledcor Group of Companies and re-branded as Summit Air | |||
Latham Island Airways | Yellowknife Water | 1988 – 1991 To Air Tindi | ||||
NWT Air | Yellowknife | 1960 – 1997 To First Air | ||||
Trinity Helicopters | Yellowknife | ? – 2013 Bought by the Ledcor Group of Companies and rebranded as Summit Helicopters |
Other
[edit]Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Hub airport(s) | Notes |
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First Air | 7F | FAB | FIRST AIR | Yellowknife, Iqaluit |
Scheduled passenger service, cargo, charters[9] Headquarters in Ontario, major airline in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. |
References
[edit]- ^ Discovery Air
- ^ Air Tindi
- ^ Aklak Air Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at the Inuvialuit Development Corporation.
- ^ Buffalo Airways
- ^ Canadian North
- ^ Northwestern Air
- ^ North-Wright Airways
- ^ Summit Air
- ^ First Air route map Archived 2009-04-17 at the Wayback Machine