{"id":809174,"date":"2026-07-18T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809174\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:40:14","slug":"more-flights-increases-passengers-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809174\/","title":{"rendered":"More flights increases passengers at the airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sault Ste. Marie Airport Development Corporation is reporting a passenger level increase of 8.8 per cent\u00a0in June\u00a0compared to the same time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 14,022\u00a0passengers went to the airport last month, which is up from 12,884 in\u00a0June\u00a0of last year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"E797\" is=\"qowt-word-para\" qowt-eid=\"E797\" qowt-entry=\"undefined\" qowt-lvl=\"undefined\">\u201cWith Air Canada now three times daily, Porter two times daily, Bearskin with two Dash 8 flights per week in their schedule, and WestJet now providing twice weekly service to Calgary, the increased seat capacity is translating into additional passenger numbers at the airport,\u201d said\u00a0Terry Bos, President and\u00a0CEO of the SSMADC.<\/p>\n<p>The following chart shows the numbers for each month since 2019:<\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-c\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20260709-soo-airport-numbers\" id=\"file-4447633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-soo-airport-numbers.png;w=960.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The number of flights the airport currently provides is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAir Canada Express with three flights daily.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBearskin Airlines with three\u00a0flights daily Sunday and Monday, four flights daily Tuesday and\u00a0Thursday,\u00a0and five\u00a0flights Wednesday and Friday,\u00a0with one of the Monday and Tuesday flights via Dash8 aircraft.&#13;<br \/>\n\tPorter has two daily flights.&#13;<br \/>\n\tWestJet Airlines has twice weekly service direct non-stop to Calgary.&#13;<\/p>\n<p id=\"E795\" is=\"qowt-word-para\" qowt-eid=\"E795\" qowt-entry=\"undefined\" qowt-lvl=\"undefined\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sault Ste. Marie Airport Development Corporation is reporting a passenger level increase of 8.8 per cent\u00a0in June\u00a0compared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,284035],"class_list":["post-809174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sault-ste-marie-airportsault-ste-marie-airport-development-corporationsault-airport-numbers-template"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}