Airline pitching 18 minute flights from Waterloo Region to Toronto
Posted Apr 19, 2017 07:28:01 AM.
Last Updated Apr 19, 2017 04:24:30 PM.
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A small air carrier has made a pitch to start flying out of The Region of Waterloo International Airport.
Greater Toronto Airways is promising an 18-minute flight to Toronto.
The airline’s chief executive officer, Chris Nowrouzi, says he’d like to offer a one-way flight to Billy Bishop Airport, for around $100 a flight.
Nowrouzi says he is looking for financial commitments from tech and insurance companies to make the service viable, saying corporate subscriptions may be required.
“Just getting commitments from the different corporations that we hope to meet with in the next couple of weeks. Other than that, as an airline on this side of things, we are 100 percent ready to go,” says Nowrouzi.
According to Chris Wood, general manager of the Region of Waterloo International Airport, talks are still in the early stages, but they’re “cautiously optimistic.”
“It looks like they’re starting to explore the business community and see what possibilities are here, and what interest level there is,” Wood tells 570NEWS.
Wood says the main draw would likely be for executives looking to avoid the traffic ahead of a morning meeting:
“So, instead of giving yourself a three-hour buffer to try and navigate first thing in the morning to downtown, or staying overnight in a hotel, it [would] give you certainty that you could leave here at, say, 8:00 and be on the ground at the airport there by 8:20.”
In the fall, the airline began flights between Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake for $85 each way.
