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WestJet’s summer 2025 schedule secures airline’s position as Ontario’s second-leading airline with new Sudbury route and increased frequency

TORONTO, Nov. 18, 2024 /CNW/ -Today WestJet published its summer 2025 schedule, including domestic seat capacity growth of 14 per cent out of Toronto Pearson and 36 per cent out of Ottawa, compared to summer 2024. These strategic service increases will optimize seamless and reliable connectivity for business travellers between Ontario and Western Canada, and for leisure travellers to sun destinations in the […]

Northern Ontario residents can escape to the tropics with Sunwing this winter with the return of weekly flights from Sudbury and North BayThe tour operator will be offering weekly flight service from Sudbury to Punta Cana and from North Bay to Varadero starting in December

The tour operator will be offering weekly flight service from Sudbury to Punta Cana and from North Bay to Varadero starting in December TORONTO, Oct. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Starting in mid-December, residents of Northern Ontario can escape the cold and look forward to more sun, sand and sea with the return of weekly […]

Air Canada’s Summer 2022 Schedule Adjustments

2 July 2022 – Air Canada 🔗 This week, Air Canada announced changes to its summer schedule to support unprecedented and unforeseen strains on our organization. International flights are unaffected, with a few timing changes to reduce flying at peak times. Flights adjusted are to and from our Toronto and Montreal hubs. These will be […]

Sunwing pulls flights from Sudbury, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie

From CTV News – link to source story – Thanks to RG Brendan Connor, CTVNorthernOntario.ca Co-anchor (CTV News at 6) | November 22, 2021 SUDBURY –  CTV News has learned that vacation airline Sunwing is bailing out of most of northern Ontario this winter. The airline is cancelling its sun destination flights from North Bay, […]

Air traffic ‘moving in the right direction’ at regional airports in northeast

From CBC News – link to source story Airport experts in Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie both say they’re seeing more passengers, additional flights CBC News · Jul 14, 2021 Air traffic in and out of the Sudbury and Sault Ste Marie airports is starting to pick up with more passengers on planes, but their Chief Executive Officers say they’re […]

Sudbury Airport CEO reflects on a tough year

From CTV News – link to source story Lyndsay Aelick, CTV News Northern Ontario Videojournalist | Sunday, May 2, 2021 SUDBURY — The travel industry has been hit hard by the pandemic but despite a decline in passenger traffic and no government funding coming to the airport in Sudbury, staff have kept its doors open. […]

Sudbury airport gets increase to city line of credit for post-pandemic planning

From CBC News – link to source story ‘We wanted to be prepared … our recovery could be long and tedious,’ airport CEO says CBC News · Apr 29, 2021 The Greater Sudbury Airport is preparing for change, once the pandemic is over and people start travelling again. The development corporation that oversees the northern Ontario airport […]