Calm Air International LP. is a full service

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, offering passenger, charter and freight services in northern Manitoba and the

Kivalliq Region The Kivalliq Region (; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑭᕙᓪᓕᖅ ) is an administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. It consists of the portion of the mainland to the west of Hudson Bay together with Southampton Island and Coats Island. The regional c ...

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. It is owned by Exchange Income Corporation with its main base in

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...

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History

The airline was established and started operations in 1962. It was founded by Carl Arnold Lawrence Morberg (1936-2005) and his wife, Gail, as a charter service in northern

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. In 1976 it took over the Transair passenger service in the

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. In 1981, Calm Air took over many of the passenger and cargo routes of

Lamb Air Lamb Air Ltd. was a Canadian airline that began operations in 1934 in The Pas, Manitoba, and went out of business in 1981. History Tom Lamb was the son of Thomas Henry Peacock (THP) Lamb, who had emigrated from England in the late 19th centu ...

. Canadian Airlines acquired a 45% holding in Calm Air in 1987. On April 8, 2009 Calm Air was purchased by the Exchange Income Corporation (EIC) which also owns Perimeter Aviation, PAL Airlines,

Bearskin Airlines Bearskin Lake Air Service LP, operating as Bearskin Airlines, is a regional airline based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It is a division of Perimeter Aviation and operates services in northern Ontario and Manitoba. Its main base is at Thun ...

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and Keewatin Air.

Airline partnerships

Calm Air has

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with

Canadian North Bradley Air Services, operating as Canadian North, is a wholly Inuit-owned airline headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada. It operates scheduled passenger services to communities in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Nunavik regio ...

Destinations

As of September 2018, Calm Air operates daily scheduled air services to the following communities: *Manitoba **

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(

Churchill Airport Churchill Airport is located east southeast of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. The airport serves the town of Churchill and the surrounding region. Although it is a small domestic airport, it handles a relatively high number of passengers througho ...

) **

Flin Flon Flin Flon (pop. 5,185 in 2016 census; 4,982 in Manitoba and 203 in Saskatchewan) is a mining city, located on a correction line on the border of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city located within M ...

( Flin Flon Airport) ** Gillam (

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) ** The Pas ( The Pas Airport) **

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( Thompson Airport) **

(

Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (commonly known as Winnipeg International Airport or Winnipeg Airport) is a Transport Canada designated international airport located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the seventh b ...

) *Nunavut **

Arviat Arviat (, syllabics: ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ; formerly called Eskimo Point until 1 June 1989) is a predominantly Inuit hamlet located on the western shore of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. Arviat ("place of the bowhead whale") is ...

( Arviat Airport) ** Baker Lake (

Baker Lake Airport Baker Lake Airport is located southwest of Baker Lake, Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via t ...

) ** Chesterfield Inlet ( Chesterfield Inlet Airport) ** Coral Harbour, ( Coral Harbour Airport) **

Naujaat Naujaat ( iu, ᓇᐅᔮᑦ, lit=seagulls' nesting place), known until 2 July 2015 as Repulse Bay, is an Inuit hamlet situated on the Arctic Circle. It is located on the shores of Hudson Bay, at the south end of the Melville Peninsula, in the ...

( Naujaat Airport) **

Rankin Inlet Rankin Inlet ( iu, Kangiqliniq; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ or ''Kangirliniq'', ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ, or ''Kangir&iniq'' meaning ''deep bay/inlet'') is an Inuit hamlet on Kudlulik Peninsula in Nunavut, Canada. It is the largest hamlet and ...

( Rankin Inlet Airport) ** Sanikiluaq (

Sanikiluaq Airport Sanikiluaq Airport is located at Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the Government of Nunavut. It is one of the few airports in Nunavut that uses magnetic headings for the runway rather than true headings. Airlines and destinati ...

) ** Whale Cove ( Whale Cove Airport)

Fleet

As of September 2021, the following aircraft are listed by

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as being registered to Calm Air: In addition, Calm Air has access to Boeing 737 Classic 400 series from

References

External links

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{{Airlines of Canada Airlines established in 1962 Regional airlines of Manitoba Air Transport Association of Canada Regional airlines of Nunavut Companies based in Winnipeg 1962 establishments in Manitoba