WINNIPEG – A link to northern Manitoba is slated to be severed after Lynn Lake decided its airport is no longer viable.
Town council decided Tuesday that the community’s airport, which provides flights in and out of northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, will close on May 6.
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Lynn Lake took over the airport in 1999 from the federal government. Last year it ran a deficit of $140,000, Mayor James Lindsay said.
The only viable option to keep it open is for the provincial government to take it over, Lindsay said.
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