Air Canada announced July 26 that it will launch Vancouver’s only non-stop flights to Yellowknife, starting December 15 and set to run until April 1.
The daily flights, operated by the airline’s Jazz Aviation division, will be on 75-seat Bombardier CRJ-705 planes that will include a business-class section.
The flights will leave Vancouver at 4 p.m. and arrive in Yellowknife at 7:30 p.m., with Yellowknife being one hour ahead of Vancouver.
The return flights are scheduled to leave Yellowknife at 7:30 a.m. and arrive in Vancouver at 8:53 a.m.
Introductory one-way fares start at $219.
“These new non-stop flights will shave off almost four hours of round-trip travel time for customers travelling between Canada's west coast and the Northwest Territories,” said Benjamin Smith, president, passenger airlines, at Air Canada.
The previous way most people travelled between Vancouver and Yellowknife included a stop in Edmonton.
Smith said that the new flights make it much more convenient for many Asian visitors to Canada to fly to the Northwest Territories to see the Aurora Borealis and only have one stopover, in Vancouver.
Other non-stop flights that Air Canada introduced earlier this year from Vancouver include routes to Taipei, Frankfurt, London’s Gatwick Airport, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and Boston.
It intends to launch non-stop, seasonal flights to Melbourne on December 1.
