Canada’s Lynx Air begins selling tickets for April launch

Canadian start-up Lynx Airlines has begun selling tickets and preparing for an April launch. The Calgary-headquartered ultra-low-cost carrier says on 19 January that it will initially serve five Canadian cities: Calgary, Vancouver, Kelowna, Winnipeg and Toronto, with fares beginning at C$39 ($31) one-way. A test booking showed that Lynx Air flights will begin on 7 April with a first daily out-and-back connection between Calgary and Vancouver. Calgary-to-Toronto flights will commence on 11 April, four times weekly at first and expanding to daily at the end of the month, and further routes will launch successively in the course of the following weeks. Lynx was formerly called Enerjet, which offered charter flights servicing Canada’s oil and gas industry. Last November, the company said it had changed its name and appointed a new management team which is looking to replicate in Canada the low-cost model that “revolutionized air travel across Europe and the United States, offering low fares, flexibility and choice”.<br/>