Flair Airlines

• Flair Airlines is now Canada’s lone low-cost carrier. Can it rise to the moment?

  Flair Airlines is Canada's sole ultra-low-cost carrier after Lynx Air's collapse. Here's what the airline's CEO and experts say about its prospects in the tough Canadian market.

  Money

  Mar 29
  
• Flair Airlines says online booking system issues are resolved

  Flair Airlines customers are being met with a website outage when trying to book airfare with the Edmonton-based low-cost carrier.

  Consumer

  Mar 25
  
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• Flair Airlines CEO says spring flight cuts not a reflection of finances

  Flair Airlines is trimming some 600 flights from its March, April and May flight schedule in 2024 compared with last year, data provided to Global News confirms.

  Money

  Mar 22
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• Travellers run into turbulence before returning home from Cancun on Flair Airlines

  A flight between Calgary and Cancun that usually takes around six hours ended up being a three-day affair for one group of Flair Airline passengers.

  Consumer

  Mar 19
• Flair Airlines hopes to get some Lynx airplanes, even after shutdown scuttles deal

  Flair Airlines CEO Stephen Jones says he still hopes to add several Lynx Air planes to his fleet, even after their tentative deal fell through when Lynx shut down last month.

  Money

  Mar 5
• Lynx Air hoped purchase by rival Flair would help pay off debt: court docs

  Proceeds from a tentative deal with Flair would have gone toward Lynx's debt to Indigo Partners, the U.S. private equity firm run by Bill Franke that owns one-quarter of Lynx.

  Canada

  Feb 27
• Flair Airlines CEO foresees more domestic travel, shorter trips this year

  The head of ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines is forecasting stronger demand for domestic trips this year as "affordable travel" becomes a realistic option for Canadians.

  Consumer

  Feb 8
• Flair Airlines faces seizure order as carrier owes feds $67M in unpaid taxes

  Flair CEO Stephen Jones says the Edmonton-based company has a deal with the Canada Revenue Agency to pay the taxes, and that it is "current with that plan."

  Canada

  Jan 29
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• Major Flair Airlines investor says new lawsuit over plane payments ‘premature at best’

  A key Flair Airlines investor says a $30-million lawsuit filed against it by plane-leasing firms over claims of missed payments is "premature at best."

  Money

  Jan 11
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• Family slams Flair Airlines over eight-day flight delay that threatened Christmas

  A mother and son who came to B.C. for an early Christmas holiday nearly ended up stuck for eight days after Flair Airlines cancelled their flight.

  Consumer

  Dec 22, 2023