Yukon's Air North adds another flight to Yellowknife, Ottawa

Air North's route between Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Ottawa has proven so popular, the Yukon airline is adding another weekly return flight this summer.

Right now, Air North flies from Whitehorse to Ottawa (with a brief stop in Yellowknife) on Sundays and Thursdays and returns the following days. The route was introduced two years ago.

Starting in June, the airline will also leave Whitehorse on Tuesdays and return on Wednesdays.

"We had certainly been receiving positive feedback about the route," said Air North president Joe Sparling.

"But we'd also received feedback from customers that it wasn't always convenient to travel on the days that we fly, or maybe more particularly that twice-a-week service did not always serve them."

Sparling said the Ottawa-Yellowknife leg has been very successful, and is frequently full — "our best-performing flight last summer," Sparling said. 

The added weekly flight is only scheduled for the summer months.

Air Canada and Westjet also offer more flights to Yukon during the busy summer tourist season.

Westjet will resume its Vancouver-Whitehorse service in May, with three-times-weekly flights into September before halting on Oct. 17.

Air Canada's summer schedule will increase to three daily flights between Vancouver and Whitehorse.