Business View Magazine | April 2020

125 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2020 Sou’West Air, which covered the route in 2003, and Starlink Airlines, which flew between Halifax, Yarmouth, and Portland, Maine in 2009. The latter lasted less than one year, despite a $2 million provincial government subsidy meant to carry the airline through the first few years of startup. From March 15, 2010 to December 31, 2012, an American company, Twin Cities Air Service, provided service between Yarmouth and Portland with scheduled flights several times a week. At present, Yarmouth International Airport has no scheduled passenger service and, today, according to Airport Operations Manager, Kris Cann, “The bulk of our business now is charter and corporate business. We’ve also got about 12 GA aircraft based out of the Airport at any given time, and there are probably another half dozen or so in the region that utilize this Airport.” In 1997, ownership of Yarmouth Airport was transferred from Transport Canada to the THE YARMOUTH INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT