Startup airline Canada Jetlines to fly between Calgary and Toronto beginning in September

Canada’s latest low cost airline introduced Friday that its first scheduled flight will take off in late September.

Canada Jetlines will start operations out of its journey hub at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport on Sept. 22, with twice weekly flights jetting from Toronto to Calgary and again on Thursdays and Sundays.

“The launch of Canada Jetlines is yet one more milestone marking restoration within the journey and tourism sector,” stated Bob Sartor, president and CEO of the Calgary Airport Authority.

As of Friday, flights on the Canada Jetlines web site that fly one-way from Calgary to Toronto had been priced at $99 on the least expensive price, and $254 on the highest price. Flight cancellation and checked baggage is out there at increased charges.

The airline flies the Airbus A320 as its normal, beginning with a kind of plane in 2022. The airline says it expects to fly 15 plane by 2025. The A320 is an all-economy jet with 174 seats.

Ravinder Minhas, a founding board member of the airline, beforehand instructed CBC Information in Could 2021 that Canada Jetlines regarded it as a optimistic time to launch, regardless of airways having misplaced billions of {dollars} at that time.

“We had been capable of get airplanes at one heck of a worth,” Minhas stated, including the airline would quickly be capable to supply flights to solar locations with cheaper fares.

Canada Jetlines beforehand deliberate to launch earlier this 12 months from Toronto to Winnipeg and Moncton, however delayed and rescheduled that launch whereas awaiting its air working certificates.

The airline says extra routes to different locations can be introduced quickly. 

Rise of low-cost airways

Canada Jetlines is the most recent in a string of low-cost airways now working within the nation.

After launching as a constitution airline in 2004, Aptitude Airways started providing common service in 2018. Lynx Air, which operates a fleet of Boeing 737s, launched earlier this 12 months.

John Gradek, a school lecturer with McGill College’s aviation administration program, stated the rise of low-cost airways has been a pattern because the business recovers from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“There was fairly a number of carriers that had parked airplanes throughout COVID. They usually’re slowly taking these airplanes out of storage and bringing them again,” he stated. 

“However there’s a possibility for a lot of carriers to, the truth is, take a look at getting airplanes that had been saved, after which getting these plane into their very own fleet by both negotiating a take care of a leasing firm or shopping for previous airplanes outright.”

Gradek stated he expects a lot of carriers will present up with totally different service ranges and totally different routes in order to create a distinct area of interest within the market.

“Canada through the years has seen its fair proportion of decrease value carriers coming,” he stated. “The longevity for these carriers is a operate of the energy of the financial system. And, you realize, how aggressive the prevailing carriers are in attempting to fulfill or beat the worth and repair stage provided by these carriers. So it is one thing we watch as these carriers evolve.”

He added will probably be vital for Canada Jetlines to shortly add to its fleet past its first Airbus A320 in order to forestall delays ought to mechanical or different points come up.