Pacific Coastal Airlines March 13 announced it will end its regularly scheduled flight service between Vancouver International Airport (YVR) South Terminal and Canadian Rockies International Airport (YXC).

The last day of operations for flights between Vancouver and Cranbrook will be Friday, April 28.

Customers affected by this cancellation will be contacted and offered a full refund, the company stated.

Pacific Coastal originally commenced service between Vancouver and Cranbrook on September 8, 2003. It was previously announced in early 2020 that the route would be suspended due to a pilot shortage, with the pandemic starting shortly after. Market conditions allowed for the route to return on July 5, 2020 until present.

“As our organization continues to emerge from the pandemic we are experiencing operational constraints due to the critical pilot and aircraft maintenance engineer shortage,” said Johnathan Richardson, Pacific Coastal’s Vice President of Customer & Commercial.

“We are unable to offer our desired level of flight frequency and capacity and have made the difficult decision to suspend flights between Vancouver and Cranbrook, as well as reduce capacity in other markets in our network, to ensure that we can maintain offering a reliable and robust flight schedule for 2023.”

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