Montreal only place for flights at Charlottetown Airport
Until at least Feb.10 — very likely extended — all passengers departing from Charlottetown Airport will have to go to or through Montreal.
Passengers wanting to travel on somewhere else will have to make connections from there. The adjust is one of a collection of flight reductions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Of course the demand from customers for air vacation is not that sturdy supplied the local climate and the restrictions,” said Charlottetown Airport CEO Doug Newson.
“Really, our priority is to make guaranteed that those people travellers that do require to vacation, in particular for workers that are rotational employees that will need to get to where by they’re going, that we have a flight schedule that they can do that.”
The flights from Charlottetown to Montreal leave each day at 6:15 a.m., indicating travellers with a link can get to western Canada by “lunchtime,” Newson mentioned.
The flight from Montreal comes in Charlottetown at 9:36 p.m. The airplane remains at the airport overnight prior to leaving again in the morning.
We truthfully assume that we’ll be in this problem at least via the initially quarter, it’s possible into the spring.— Doug Newson
Right until Monday, Air Canada had been giving 5 weekly flights to Toronto and two to Montreal, but last month it announced that would change to a everyday flight to Montreal from Jan. 11-Feb. 10. WestJet suspended all of its flights in and out of Charlottetown on Nov. 2.
Saint John, N.B., and Sydney, N.S., had all their flights suspended.
Newson reported it truly is most likely Charlottetown’s new flight timetable will extend further than Feb. 10.
“We honestly believe that we are going to be in this predicament at least by means of the to start with quarter, perhaps into the spring.”
Newson said talks are ongoing with airlines and govt about what could possibly come about this summer.
“We might naturally like to see much more flights but the reality is we never have the demand from customers for far more flights proper now and we’re hoping in the coming months, when points get started to get improved, we are going to see those flights return.”
Newson stated the new flight agenda did not result in any added layoffs at the airport.
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