Services under the Canadian flag-carrier's new "Air Canada Express" brand are set for launch on Sunday, 1 May 2011. Recently created Sky Regional Airlines will operate a fleet of five Bombardier DHC-8 402Q "Q400"s, under a capacity purchase agreement with Air Canada, initially on a single route linking Toronto's city centre Billy Bishop Airport and Montreal Trudeau International. The fleet is as follows: reg C-FSRJ / msn 4165, C-FSRN / 4170, C-FSRW / 4172, C-FSRY / 4174, and C-FSRZ / 4176.
This is just the start for Air Canada Express, as it was announced this week that the brand will replace the current Jazz Air brand, under which almost all of Air Canada's regional services are currently flown, with a fleet of around 120 aircraft, operated by Chorus Aviation (the former Jazz Air Income Fund). The current agreement with Chorus means that the company will continue to provide the great majority of Air Canada's regional services until at least 2020, as it has done for the last decade. However, Air Canada's preference to go with Sky Regional, taken together with Jazz Air's recently introduced holiday flights for Thomas Cook Canada, in direct competition with Air Canada Vacations, would seem to indicate that an extension of current arrangements between the two companies beyond 2020 can no longer be taken for granted. Contact details for Sky Regional are:
Sky Regional Airlines Inc
9785 Avenue Ryan
Dorval
Montreal
H9P 1A2
Quebec
Canada
Tel: +1 888 759 2479
email: info@skyregional.com
web: http://www.skyregional.com
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