Harbour Air
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Harbour Air is an airline based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It operates scheduled and charter passenger services in British Columbia using floatplanes. In addition it also operates small scale freight and scenic flights as well as private charters. Its main base is Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome (CXH), near the transportation hub, Waterfront Station.
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[edit] Code Data
- IATA Code: H3
[edit] History
The airline was established and started operations in 1981 as Windoak Air Service to provide seaplane charter services for the forestry industry in British Columbia. It later added charter flights to resorts, which were greatly increased in 1993. In the same year Harbour Air purchased Trans-Provincial Airlines.
[edit] Services
The airline operates scheduled flights on the following routes:
- Vancouver <-> Victoria
- Langley <-> Victoria
- Vancouver <-> Nanaimo
- Vancouver <-> Gulf Islands (servicing Ganges, Maple Bay, Bedwell Harbour, Patricia Bat and Telegraph Harbour)
- Richmond <-> Gulf Islands (servicing Ganges, Montague, Bedwell, Lyall and Miner's Bay)
- Also scheduled flights between Prince Rupert and Masset, Sandspit, Port Simpson, Hartley Bay, Kitkatla and Kincolith.
- Richmond <-> Nanaimo
- Richmond <-> Victoria
[edit] Fleet
Harbour Air's entire fleet consists of float planes. They operate float plane variants of the following aircraft:
- DHC-2 Beaver
- DHC-3T Otter
- C-185
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