A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 11, 2002

TERRACE STANDARD

Bus Ingss REVIEW

Hawkair flies northeast

Terrace airline to begin serving Dawson Creek in October

HAWKAIR Aviation will begin flying into Dawson Creck next month, mark- ing a major new expansion of service to northeastern B.C.

The Terrace-based air- line will touch down in Peace River country Oct. &, says markeling director Charlynn Toews.

Hawkair arrives with direct flights from Vancou- ver to Dawson Creek just as Air Canada is abandon- ing the same run, she said. The only southbound run from the city now is to Prince George,

“Dawson Creek is booming,” Toews. said, “It’s one of the many com- munities in B.C. that asked us to start serving their town.”

“What we sec ourselves doing here is maintaining the Vancouver link to northern markets that were underserved,” Hawkair partner Dave Menzies added.

Hawkair business deve- lopment officer David Re- dekop said if traffic in Dawson Creek is as strong as expected, a fourth air- plane will soon be justi- fied.

The homegrown Terrace airline just look possession of its third 37-seat Dash-8 this summer.

Although they say no further acquisitions are im- minent, more planes are part of their plan.

“We're always talking aboul the fourth plane, the fifth plane and the sixth plane,” Toews said. ©

“We've been nice and

cosy in the northwest cor- .

ner and that’s working well,” she added.

“Now we're looking at the northeast corner, And there’s a.number of under- served communities. in south central and southeast B.C.”

Menzies said they want to remain ready to take advantage of opportunities as they appear.

The move means estab- lishment of a base in Daw- son Creek and three to four employees there initially, Toews said.

- The Dawson Creek ex- pansion also requires a trimming of Hawkair runs elsewhere for the winter. Smithers drops from two round trips a day to one to accommodate one round trip per day into Dawson Creek.

Toews said Prince Ru- pert and Terrace remain at two round trip flights per day. The Friday evening flight out of Terrace is sus- pended, despite its popu- larity.

Dawson Creck service will start out at two days a week before going daily in November.

That’s because Haw- kair’s original Dash-8 is being taken out of service for four weeks of major

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maintenance in October, Menzies said.

It’s been in use for two years ‘since the company’s startup and is now due for what's called a “C-check”,

That means a complete systems check that in- valves dismantling and re- assembling much of the aircraft.

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Alcan rep to speak

THE PUBLIC relations campaigns surrounding Alcan’s eventual plans for its Kemano power conti- 12. Alcan official Richard Proko- panko is to speak at a Chamber of Commerce lun- cheon at the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club. His appearance follows one in the summer by Ki- timat officials who laid out their theory that Alcan wants tO export more power, possibly through a modernization of the smelter. The fear is that will also mean dramatically fewer Alcan jobs in Kitimat. Prokopanko’s presentation takes place at 11:45 a.m, at the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club.

Peace Air pulls out

PEACE AIR has ended its regular service between Terrace and Prince George that it started June 17,

The Alberta-based airline says it was taken by surprise when Centra! Mountain Air chose the same time to launch an identical east-west service.

“It certainly doesn’t warrant two airlines compet- Peace Air president Albert Cooper said. “One good thing ~ Terrace-Kitimat now have their east-west connection,”

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