Lethbridge airport services have potential to expand: expert – Lethbridge [Video]

Passengers and local businesses are frustrated with the new service by WestJet at the Lethbridge airport, but one expert says things can and should change.

Passengers flying out of Lethbridge now only have one option.

“It might be a long time until I fly out of this airport again,” said Peter Kutney, a passenger flying out of the Lethbridge airport for what he says will be the final time.

Many other passengers expressed concern over WestJet’s limited schedule, which now offers one flight to Calgary every day. There are no other destinations available for those choosing to fly out of the southern Alberta city.

This, however, wasn’t always the case.

“Lethbridge had its own airline,” said Rick Erickson, the managing director at R.P. Erickson & Associates. “Time Airways was based in Lethbridge and they served Calgary nine (or) 10 times a day, including with jet equipment.”

Time Airways dissolved in 1993, leaving Lethbridge without a carrier …