Direct flights are expected to run from June 11 to Sept. 10, 2027<\/p>\n
Alberta is still part of Canada, apparently, and its relationship with Ontario may be strengthened\u00a0by a second summer of seasonal direct flights between Sault Ste. Marie and Calgary.<\/p>\n
This year, WestJet started\u00a0offering non-stop summer service twice a week on a 737 from Sault Ste. Marie Airport to Calgary International Airport.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be continued next year,” Richard Jones, city marketing specialist for tourism and community development, told the October meeting of the Sault’s tourism committee.<\/p>\n
The meeting was advised that WestJet’s website has already started offering\u00a0direct service to Calgary beginning on Friday, June\u00a011, 2027.<\/p>\n
The flights will end on Friday, Sept. 10,\u00a02027.<\/p>\n
The airline’s plans for direct seasonal flights between the Sault and Calgary were disclosed one day after Albertans formally\u00a0rejected a proposal to begin a process toward independence from Canada.<\/p>\n
In the Oct. 19 referendum, 1,556,316 Albertans said their province should remain part of Canada.<\/p>\n
Just over half a million voters wanted Alberta to commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on separation from Canada.<\/p>\n
“They e-mailed to me: ‘I hope to see you on the flights next year,'” Jones told the city’s tourism committee.<\/p>\n
The city is now expected to develop a marketing plan aimed at attracting tourist traffic from Alberta to Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n
“Ideally, if they were continuing into the fall, any tourists coming from Asia, depending on their itinerary, could save a significant amount of time,” said Travis Anderson, the city’s director of tourism and community development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Direct flights are expected to run from June 11 to Sept. 10, 2027 Alberta is still part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48,326943],"class_list":["post-956738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-westjetrichard-jonestourism-commitee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956738","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=956738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}