Pascan Aviation to service Sydney to Halifax route [Video]

Pascan Aviation might be a name many Cape Bretoners hadn’t heard before Thursday’s announcement that it will soon be servicing the Sydney-to-Halifax air travel route that had been gone for two years.

However, it turns out the McCurdy Sydney Airport’s newest carrier didn’t arrive out of the clear blue sky.

“We’d been looking at Sydney for many, many years but we’ve always been hesitant,” said Julian Roberts, Pascan Aviation’s president & CEO.

“We’re a really small company. Air Canada was there servicing Halifax, WestJet was there servicing Halifax.”

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With those larger carriers having abandoned the Sydney-to-Halifax route, Roberts said they saw an opportunity.

He added that on Sept. 8 the airline is scheduled to start flying out of two other Maritime airports.

“We’re launching Bathurst, New Brunswick and Saint John, New Brunswick in September – …