KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - Flights between Ketchikan in Alaska and Prince Rupert in Canada’s British Columbia province will soon be available for the first time since the 1990s.
The flights will begin May 1, the Ketchikan Daily News reported (https://bit.ly/2pYKPIW) Thursday.
Misty Fjords Air & Outfitting Inc. will fly three round-trip flights per week. The planes will leave early on Monday and Wednesday mornings and Friday afternoons.
The schedule was built in part around the Alaska Marine Highway System’s ferry schedule between the two cities, said David Doyon Jr., the company’s operations director.
“Passengers will have both options, and if there’s any delays or unforeseen weather events that happen, the fallback is there - the old reliable - and we’ll be pushing hard to get the word circulated to make it happen,” he said.
Flights will leave from the company’s Seaplane Base located just south of the U.S. Coast Guard base in Ketchikan. The flight lasts about 45 minutes.
The company hopes to keep prices around $250 for round trips and plans to offer discounts.
“There’s nothing cheap about coming to Canada, I’ll come right out and say that,” Dolan Jr. said. “The customs and navigation fees and the different things that we incur, we absorb most of that. But the fare is going to be structured to where there are no (passenger) minimums and people can do it for a reasonable price.”
U.S. passengers must have a valid passport to fly to Canada.
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Information from: Ketchikan (Alaska) Daily News, https://www.ketchikandailynews.com
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