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evening run on Sunday.

This 19-passenger Metro II turboprop operated by
tween Terrace, Smithers and Vancouver. Schedule

Skylink Airlines began service this week carrying travellers be-
d operations are for two flights daily during the week and a late-

Second airline starts service

don’t like flying it probably
won’t be any worse than flying
in any other airplane,

Skylink Airlines, a Richmond-
based commuter air service,
began carrying passengers on a
Terrace-Smithers- Vancouver

_ route Monday. The company is

starting out small, but they
haven’t ruled out the possibility
of more frequency in their
schedule if the traffic warrants

it, -
. Skylink is offering two flights

daily, five days a week, and one
late evening flight on Sunday in
their newly purchased Metro II
19-passenger turboprop aircraft.
The company was in Terrace last
week to give a demonstration
flight for media representatives
and some local officials and
business people. ;

Flying in the Metro will be a
new experience for travellers ac-
customed to riding in large com-
mercial jetliners. The ceiling in
the cabin is in the four-foot
range, forcing boarding passen-
gers to stoop as they make their
way down the aisle. The seats
are arranged in two rows, one
down each side, but once seated
the legroom and headroom are
more than adequate for com-
fort,

The flight begins with the
shriek of turbines being fired up,
not unlike the start-up sound of
jet engines, but it’s replaced
after a few moments with a
snarling hum as the propellers
engage.

It was a windy day, and after
take off the airplane went
through several pockets of turb-
ulence on its way to altitude.
The carnival-ride effect of unru-
ly air on the Metro was no more
pronounced than it would be in
a larger aircraft. The engine
noise level in the cabin was
somewhat higher than it would
be in a Boeing 737, but not high
enough to totally discourage
casual conversation, The sight-
seeing flight took us north past

Removal requested

TERRACE — Heinz Lehmann,
President of H. Lehmann
Jewellers Ltd. has asked the city
to move the old provincial police
building on the corner of
Lakelse and Kalum, which he
owns, or have it removed from
the list of heritage buildings so
it can be destroyed. .
the Happy Gang Centre showed
an interest in the property for
the possible expansion of their
building onto the adjacent lot,
and the heritage building is
again holding up the sale of the
property. Lehmann wants the ci-
ty to make.a decision. |

“As you are aware,” wrote
Lehmann, “This building was
declared a Heritage building

some ‘time’ ago with the .

"

Kitsumkalum Mountain at an al-
titude just above the surround-
ing peaks, and then south for a
standing-on-one-wing pass over

Lakelse Lake. The landing was }F

smooth and uneventful.

Skylink operations manager
Karen Greenwood says the com-
pany wants to build its trade on
reliability, to become Terrace’s
community airline. The aircraft
they’re using has all the tech-

Nical trappings of a large com-

mercial jet, including cabin
pressurization, instrument land-
ing systems and weather radar,
and its low approach speeds will
give it a moderate: advantage

over the faster jets in marginal

weather conditions. Flying at
300 knots, the Metro will get to
Vancouver in just.over one and a
half hours, a longer flight than
Canadian Airlines International

offers, but the seat price is lower-

than CAI’s standard fare, and
the lower altitude flights may be
attractive to sightseers.

These are characterized as no-
frills flights: there are no
washrooms on the aircraft, and
they won't be staffed with
stewardesses. Skylink is making
an introductory fare offer of $99
one-way on the morning flight
while setting the long-term
standard fare of $149 one-way
on the afternoon run. The en-
couragement for flyers to use the
morning flight is obvious after
an examination of the schedule:
it departs Terrace at 8:40 a.m.,
makes a stop in Smithers, and

arrives at the South Terminal of

the Vancouver Airport about

11:30 a.m., a flight duration of

three hours.
The afternoon flight is a direct
run that takes an hour and a
‘half.

For anyone who enjoys flying,

a trip in the Metro will be a plea- .

sant experience. For people who

understanding that it was to be
moved off the property at the

time of development or sale of |

the property.

“As we again have a party in-
terested in purchasing this pro-
perty we would hereby ask you
Mr, Mayor and Members of

. Council to either have this

Heritage building removed from
the Heritage roll or purchase the
same for $1.00 and move it to a
location of your choice at your
cost.’”

The fate of the building was

sent to the Committee of the

Whole for further discussion
and a recommendation for

council to consider at its Feb. 22}

demonstration flight of the comp

Skylink president Rafae! Zur took the controls himself during last week's
any’s new Metro Il aircraft that will be
used on the Terrace-Smithers-Vancouver. run. The twice-dally service
began Monday. ;

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