List of airlines of Alberta
This is a list of airlines of Alberta which have an air operator's certificate issued by Transport Canada, the country's civil aviation authority. These are airlines that are based in Alberta.
Current airlines[]
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Hub airport(s) or headquarters |
Notes |
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Air Spray | ASB | Red Deer | Aerial firefighting | |||
AirSprint | ASP | AIRSPRINT | Calgary | Fractional ownership of aircraft[1] | ||
Enerjet | EG | ENJ | ENERJET AIR | Calgary | Charter airline[2] | |
Kenn Borek Air | 4K | KBA | BOREK AIR | Calgary | Charters, aircraft leasing[3] | |
LR Helicopters | Calgary/Springbank | Charters, flight training[4] | ||||
Fort McMurray | Charters, flight training[5] | |||||
Morningstar Air Express | MAL | MORNINGSTAR | Edmonton | Cargo airline that operates a FedEx Canada contract.[6] Example colours only; aircraft now registered to WestJet.[7] | ||
Nor-Alta Aviation | LT | CANWEST | Fort Vermilion, High Level |
Charters and MEDIVAC (air ambulance)[8] | ||
Northern Air | Peace River | Charters, scheduled flights and air ambulance[9] | ||||
R1 Airlines | TSH | TRANSCANADA | Calgary | Charter airline, aircraft leasing[10] | ||
Sunwest Aviation | CNK | CHINOOK | Calgary | Charters, MEDIVAC (air ambulance)[11] | ||
WestJet | WS | WJA | WESTJET | Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto Pearson |
Low-cost carrier, scheduled passenger service. Canada's second largest airline after Air Canada.[12] | |
WestJet Encore | WEN | ENCORE | Calgary |
Defunct airlines[]
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Hub airport(s) or headquarters |
Notes |
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Air Mikisew | V8 | AURORA | Fort McMurray | 1961 (as Contact Air) - 2011 Grounded in 2010 and permanently closed by 2011 | ||
Alberta Citylink | ABK | ALBERTA CITYLINK | Medicine Hat | 1996 - 2004 Owned by Bar XH Air | ||
Alta Flights | ALZ | Edmonton International | 1986 - 2014 To Sunwest Aviation | |||
Bar XH Air | BXH | PALLISER | Medicine Hat | 1974 - 2010 To Integra Air [13] | ||
Canada West Airlines | Edmonton International | 2002 - 2004 | ||||
Canadian Airlines | CP | CDN | CANADIAN | Calgary | 1987 - 2001 To Air Canada | |
Canadian Regional Airlines | KI | CDR | CANADIAN REGIONAL | Calgary | 1993 - 2000 To Air Canada Jazz | |
Corporate Express | CPB | PENTA | Calgary | 1975 - 2009 | ||
Eldorado Radium Silver Express | Edmonton/Blatchford Field, Port Radium |
1935 - 1970s? To | ||||
Globemaster Air Cargo | Edmonton/St. Albert | 2003 - 2004 | ||||
STP | Edmonton | 1998 - 1999 | ||||
Integra Air | BXH | PALLISER | Lethbridge | 1998 - 2018 Former provider of scheduled passenger service, charters[14] | ||
Knighthawk Air Express | 4I | KNX | KNIGHT FLIGHT | Calgary | 1993 - 2005 | |
MacKenzie Air Services | Edmonton/Blatchford Field | 1932 - 1942 to Canadian Pacific Airlines | ||||
Peace Air | Peace River | |||||
QuikAir | Q9 | Calgary | 2001 - 2006 | |||
Skyxpress Airline | KLO | KLONDIKE | Calgary | 2001 - 2008 | ||
Southern Frontier Airlines | Calgary | 1978 - 1978 To Time Air | ||||
Swanberg Air | Grande Prairie | 2000 - 2011 Ceased due to death of founder Sylvan Swanberg | ||||
Time Air | KI | TAF | TIME AIR | Lethbridge | 1966 - 1993 To Canadian Regional Airlines | |
Wardair | WD | WDA | WARDAIR | Edmonton International | 1952 - 1990 Started as Polaris Charter Company at Yellowknife in 1946, acquired by Canadian Airlines) | |
Zip | 3J | WZP | ZIPPER | Calgary | 2002 - 2004 Operations return to regular Air Canada routes |
References[]
- ^ AirSprint Archived 2015-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Enerjet". Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ^ Kenn Borek Air
- ^ LR Helicopters
- ^ McMurray Aviation
- ^ Morningstar Air Express
- ^ Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: History Search Result
- ^ "Nor-Alta Aviation". Archived from the original on 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ^ Northern Air
- ^ Regional 1
- ^ Sunwest Aviation
- ^ WestJet, Air France, KLM work toward code-share
- ^ "Bar XH Air - Services". Archived from the original on 2005-03-11. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ^ "Integra Air". Archived from the original on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
Categories:
- Lists of airlines of Canada by province or territory
- Aviation in Alberta
- Alberta-related lists