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Northern-based Montreal planes Three aircraft will be stationed in Nunavut and NWT
Lyndsay Herman
Northern News Services
Published Monday, June 17, 2013
NUNAVUT
Montreal airline Nolinor Aviation and Cambridge Bay's Kitikmeot Air Ltd. have signed a contract that boosts the number and size of planes available for charter in the North.
Nolinor Aviation's Convair 580 airplane can carry up to 49 people and land on a minimum runway-length of approximately 1,066 metres. - photo courtesy of Kitikmeot Air
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According to the contract, Nolinor will provide aircraft for charter from Kitikmeot Air's bases in Cambridge Bay and Yellowknife.
"We're very excited to be working with our new partners," stated Kitikmeot Air president Bill Lyall in a June 12 news release. "They've been working up here for a while now, and our companies can both trace their roots to the bush pilots that contributed to the growth of this region many years ago."
Two Convair 580 airplanes have already found new homes at these two Northern bases and a Boeing 737 is expected to arrive by the end of the year.
"We've been looking to become more active in the Western Arctic for a while now," Nolinor president Jacques Prud'homme stated in the release. "We just needed to wait for the right partner to come along."
The Convair 580 can land or take-off from a runway a minimum of 1,066 metres in length and carry up to 49 passengers. The aircraft can also function as a freighter or a tanker to transport goods to remote locations.
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