West Wind Aviation and Transwest Air have consolidated under one air operating certificate and will now be known as Rise Air.When COVID-19 broke out last spring, the two carriers that service northern Saskatchewan were majorly impacted.“We’re down about 50 per cent compared to what we were doing pre-COVID,” Stephen Smith, Transwest Air CEO, told Global News Friday.
Remote airport runway move could make northern Saskatchewan flight fares cheaper Merging the two airlines together was a necessary move to offset the repercussions of COVID-19, according to Smith.“That’s the only way we’d survive,” he said.However, the CEO is optimistic.