Tag: West Kootenay Regional Airport

Dexterra Integrated Facilities Management has held the contract since 2021, which is due to expire on Oct. 31. The 18-month extension is worth $1 million.

The job goes to PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc. of Kelowna, who will be paid $60,000 plus tax.

Ravi Kahlon wrote a letter this month to federal transport minister Steven MacKinnon, urging him to approve a GPS-based landing system that would result in lowered approach limits in bad weather at the West Kootenay Regional Aiport.

Thirty-three flights have been cancelled this year, the same number at this time in 2025.

If and when the West Kootenay Regional Airport receives the go-ahead for a GPS-based landing system, a marketing campaign will be needed to regain the confidence of travellers to fly out of Castlegar, according to the airport manager.

A local resident is sounding the alarm over changes to Air Canada's flight schedule in Castlegar that she says makes it harder for travellers coming from the east to get home in a single day.

City council has approved spending $25,000 to study alternative models of funding and governing the airport.

Nearly five years after the City of Castlegar submitted a plan to make the West Kootenay Regional Airport more reliable in bad weather, the federal government still hasn't given its blessing.