Canadian North teams up with university to tackle pilot shortage
A nation-wide pilot shortage has prompted a Canadian airline serving the Arctic to team up with an Alberta university to
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Small plane makes unexpected landing on Alaska Highway in the Yukon
Yukon’s highway rest stops see plenty of cars, trucks and RVs, but airplanes? Not so much. That’s why Adam Skrutkowski was
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Northern airlines in Ottawa to talk wildfires, climate change and infrastructure
By Caitrin Pilkington · CBC News Members of the Northern Air Transport Association (NATA) were in Ottawa on Thursday to discuss the
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Airlines’ new routes from N.W.T. to Ontario can capitalize on int’l tourism: expert
By Jenna Dulewich · CBC News 2 airlines announced direct or same-day flights from Yellowknife to Ontario As airlines announce new connections
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Canadian North says changes to flight schedules involved ‘difficult choices’
‘There’s a number of communities across our network that were underserved, and some that were overserved’ The president of Canadian
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Diplomat warns lessons of EU seal ban harm mustn’t be forgotten amid green transition
As the international community undertakes a historic green transition, accelerated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the negative impacts on
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TSB report: Forced landing in N.W.T. due to failure to follow safety procedures
A flight that had to make a forced landing into muskeg near Fort Providence, N.W.T. last year ran out of
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Quebec-based Air Inuit announces new CEO
Christian Busch, a long-time Air Inuit employee, has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the Quebec-based
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Air Canada suspending passenger service to northern city of Yellowknife on Jan. 23
Airline says it’s cutting operations due to ‘stifled demand,’ travel restrictions, quarantine rules Air Canada is suspending passenger service to
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Chamber of Commerce in Canada’s Northwest Territories says tourism threatened by COVID-19 border restrictions
Travel restrictions will likely stay in place during the 2021 tourism season, Dr. Kandola says The N.W.T. Chamber of Commerce
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Lapland tourism to lose over 60% of winter business says Finnish survey
Roughly half of firms said that domestic tourism would not help cover losses caused by the absence of overseas visitors.
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Cracking open a ‘treasure trove’ of aviation history in northwestern Canada
Bob Cameron calls it a “treasure trove” of Yukon aviation history. The small, unassuming building in Carcross was once the
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Inuit org wants Canada to deem air transport essential during COVID-19 crisis
The national Inuit organization in Canada is calling on the federal government to deem air transport an essential service for
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Extremely low pressure grounds some air traffic in northern Norway
The past months have seen extraordinarily rough weather along the north Norwegian coast. Early this week came another extreme. The
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Northern Finland’s tourism industry divided over flight tax proposal
Lapland (Arctic Finland) tourism players are divided over a proposal to mitigate carbon emissions by introducing a flight tax. On
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