Jazz Aviation LP, commonly shortened to Jazz, is a Canadian
regional airline based at
Halifax Stanfield International Airport, in
Enfield
Enfield may refer to:
Places Australia
* Enfield, New South Wales
* Enfield, South Australia
** Electoral district of Enfield, a state electoral district in South Australia, corresponding to the suburb
** Enfield High School (South Australia)
...
,
Halifax,
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Chorus Aviation
Chorus Aviation is a Canadian holding company which owns regional airlines Jazz Aviation LP and Voyageur Airways as well as lessor Chorus Aviation Capital.
It was founded in 2006 as Jazz Air Income Fund, when then parent company ACE Aviation ...
. Jazz Aviation provides regional and charter airline services in Canada and the United States, primarily under contract to
Air Canada
Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada by the size and passengers carried. Air Canada maintains its headquarters in the borough of Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled an ...
using the brand name
Air Canada Express, and also as Jazz Charters.
It is Canada's third-largest airline in terms of fleet size but not in terms of passengers carried annually, number of employees, or destinations served. Its Air Canada Express operations serve 79 destinations in Canada and the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
. Under a capacity purchase agreement, Air Canada sets the Jazz route network and flight schedule, and purchases all of Jazz's seat capacity based on predetermined rates. Its main base is
Halifax Stanfield International Airport, with hubs at
Toronto Pearson International Airport
Lester B. Pearson International Airport , commonly known as Toronto Pearson International Airport, is an international airport located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the main airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and the surr ...
,
Victoria International Airport
Victoria International Airport serves Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is north northwest of Victoria on the Saanich Peninsula, with the bulk of the airport (including the passenger terminal) in North Saanich, and a small portion of the ...
,
Vancouver International Airport
Vancouver International Airport is an international airport located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, serving the city of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland region. It is located from Downtown Vancouver. It is the second busie ...
,
Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, and
Calgary International Airport
Calgary International Airport , branded as YYC Calgary International Airport, is an international airport that serves the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located approximately northeast of downtown and covers an area of 20.82 squa ...
.
Prior to April 2011, Air Canada's regional operations were branded as Air Canada Jazz. Following the award of a contract to
Sky Regional Airlines
Sky Regional Airlines (SRA) was an airline whose corporate headquarters was located on the property of Toronto Pearson International Airport, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Linked with Skyservice Business Aviation, it began operation under the Air ...
, the Air Canada Express brand was introduced as an umbrella for all regional operations. The Jazz brand is now entirely managed by Jazz Aviation LP.
History
Corporate history
![Jazz Office CYHZ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Jazz_Office_CYHZ.JPG)
Air Canada Regional Inc. was established in 2001 from the consolidation of the Air Canada Connector carriers
Air BC
Air BC was a Canadian regional airline headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It later became part of Air Canada Jazz. This regional airline primarily flew turboprop aircraft but also operated jets as well as an Air Canada Connecto ...
,
Air Nova
Air Nova was an airline based in Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada that became part of Air Canada Regional in 2001. In 2002 the merger of Air BC, Air Ontario, Air Nova and Canadian Regional Airlines was finalised with the launch of a new name a ...
,
Air Ontario
Air Ontario Inc. was a regional Canadian airline headquartered in Sarnia then London, Ontario. In 2002, Air Ontario became Air Canada Jazz.
History
Great Lakes Airlines was formed in 1958, becoming Air Ontario Ltd. in 1983 and Air Ontario Inc ...
, and
Canadian Regional Airlines
Canadian Regional Airlines was an airline headquartered in Calgary International Airport in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is now part of Air Canada Jazz.
Former code data
* IATA code: KI
* ICAO code: CDR
*Callsign: Canadian Regional
Histor ...
(shortly after the merger between
Canadian Airlines
Canadian Airlines International Ltd. (stylized as Canadi›n Airlines or Canadi‹n Airlines, or simply Canadian) was a Canadian airline that operated from 1987 until 2001. The airline was Canada's second largest airline after Air Canada, carr ...
and Air Canada). The merger was finalized in 2002 with the creation of a new brand: Air Canada Jazz.
In 2006,
ACE Aviation Holdings
ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. is a Canadian holding company that is the former parent company of Air Canada. It is headquartered in Montreal. In 2012, the company signified its intent to dissolve, but is still undergoing liquidation as of 2020.
Hi ...
, the owners of Air Canada, sold off all of its Air Canada Jazz assets. Air Canada Jazz was then an independent company known as Jazz Air Income Fund, which launched an
initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...
in February 2006; units of the income trust traded as JAZ.UN.
On 15 November 2010, the airline was restructured and changed its name to
Chorus Aviation
Chorus Aviation is a Canadian holding company which owns regional airlines Jazz Aviation LP and Voyageur Airways as well as lessor Chorus Aviation Capital.
It was founded in 2006 as Jazz Air Income Fund, when then parent company ACE Aviation ...
, became a public corporation, and traded as "CHR" at the Toronto Stock Exchange.
In 2011, Air Canada announced it would phase out the use of the "Air Canada Jazz" name and livery, and instead brand its regional operations as "Air Canada Express", with the subtitle "operated by Jazz". The contract between Jazz and Air Canada is currently in effect until 2035.
Operational history
In February 2006, Air Canada announced that City Centre Aviation Limited (CCAL) had served a 30-day termination notice for Jazz's month-to-month lease of terminal space at Toronto City Centre Airport. The
Toronto Port Authority
The Toronto Port Authority (TPA), doing business as PortsToronto (PT), is a port authority that is responsible for the management of the Port of Toronto, including the International Marine Passenger Terminal, and Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport ...
itself does not control any significant terminal space at the airport, but it extended permission for Jazz to continue using the airport; however, since the airline could not find terminal space, they cancelled service to the airport at the end of February 2006. CCAL had been bought by REGCO Holdings, (now Porter Aviation Holdings), the owners of
Porter Airlines, which launched service from the airport later that year.
In August 2008, Jazz Aviation removed all life jackets from its aircraft to lower fuel costs. According to the airline, passengers are to use floating seat cushions in the event of an emergency over water. The airline also stated that the probability of a
water landing
In aviation, a water landing is, in the broadest sense, an aircraft landing on a body of water. Seaplanes, such as floatplanes and flying boats, land on water as a normal operation. Ditching is a controlled emergency landing on the water s ...
on the regional airline routes was almost zero, as no operation over great bodies of water occurs except for the
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lakes ...
and the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, and that in all circumstances, the airline always remains within from land, as stipulated in the law, which removes the obligation from carrying any flotation devices.
Other ventures
Thomas Cook Canada
In April 2010, Jazz Aviation LP had reached an agreement with
Thomas Cook Group
Thomas Cook Group plc was a global travel group, headquartered in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange from its formation on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG — successor to Thomas Cook & Son — an ...
to operate a fleet of at least six
Boeing 757-200 aircraft during the winter 2010/2011 season.
[Jazz Air in agreement with Thomas Cook Canada](_blank)
The deal with Thomas Cook Group followed the collapse of Canadian airline
Skyservice, which previously operated aircraft for Thomas Cook during the winter season. The aircraft, which were leased from UK operator
Thomas Cook Airlines
Thomas Cook Airlines Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline headquartered in Manchester, England. It was founded in 2007 from the merger of Thomas Cook Group and MyTravel Group, and was part of the Thomas Cook Group Airlines. It ...
, were used on flights to destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. On September 30, 2010, it was announced that the deal had been extended until 2015.
Sunquest charter service to sun destinations operated by Jazz Aviation, doing business as Thomas Cook Canada, began on November 5, 2010. However, on April 13, 2012, Thomas Cook Canada had terminated the remaining three years of the five-year flight services agreement with Jazz,
and the service ended on April 30, 2012.
For the 2011/2012 season, flights departed from the Canadian airports of
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
,
Halifax,
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
, and
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
. Destinations included
Aruba
Aruba ( , , ), officially the Country of Aruba ( nl, Land Aruba; pap, Pais Aruba) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands physically located in the mid-south of the Caribbean Sea, about north of the Venezuela peninsula of ...
,
Nassau
Nassau may refer to:
Places Bahamas
*Nassau, Bahamas, capital city of the Bahamas, on the island of New Providence
Canada
*Nassau District, renamed Home District, regional division in Upper Canada from 1788 to 1792
*Nassau Street (Winnipeg), ...
,
Puerto Plata,
Punta Cana
Punta Cana is a resort town in the easternmost region of the Dominican Republic. It is part of the Veron–Punta Cana Municipalities of the Dominican Republic, municipal district, in the Salvaleón de Higüey, Higüey municipality of La Altagraci ...
,
Montego Bay
Montego Bay is the capital of the Parishes of Jamaica, parish of Saint James Parish, Jamaica, St. James in Jamaica. The city is the fourth-largest urban area in the country by population, after Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish Town, and Por ...
,
Cancun,
Cozumel
Cozumel (; yua, Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucatà ...
,
Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta ( or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican beach resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's BahÃa de Banderas in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadala ...
,
Los Cabos
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to:
Science and technology
* Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation
* Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers
* Level of significance, a measure of statistical significanc ...
, and
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
.
PLUNA LÃneas Aéreas Uruguayas S.A.
In April 2010, Jazz Aviation purchased a one-third interest in the Latin American Regional Aviation Holding Corporation (LARAH). In turn, LARAH owns a 75% interest in
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
an flag carrier
PLUNA
PLUNA LÃneas Aéreas Uruguayas S.A. was the flag carrier of Uruguay. It was headquartered in Carrasco, Montevideo and operated scheduled services within South America, as well as scheduled cargo and charter services from its hub at Carrasco I ...
, while the remaining 25% is owned by the Uruguayan government. PLUNA said on July 6, 2012, that it was "suspending all flights indefinitely" and announced that 720 of the 900 staff would be sent on unemployment pay until a new associate for the company is found or the airline is definitively sold.
Destinations
Jazz serves 79 destinations across Canada and the United States.
Fleet
![C-GGAH@YUL 25Mar18](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/C-GGAH%40YUL_25Mar18.jpg)
The Jazz fleet consists of the following aircraft as of January 2022:
Bombardier Aerospace
Bombardier Aviation is a division of Bombardier Inc. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada. Its most popular aircraft included the Dash 8 Series 400, CRJ100/200/440, and CRJ700/900/1000 lines of regional airliners, and the newer CS ...
delivered the first of its new regional jet variant, the 75-passenger
CRJ-705 to Jazz Aviation on May 27, 2005. The aircraft was the first of 15 CRJ-705 and 15 CRJ-200 aircraft ordered in September 2004. Originally, the order had been for 30 CRJ-705s and 15 CRJ-200s but was changed to 15 and 15, subsequently, 15
Embraer E175 aircraft were added to the Air Canada mainline fleet. A 16th CRJ-705 was added to replace a CRJ-100 which was written off. The new aircraft undertook its first revenue-earning flight on June 1, 2005, from
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
to
Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
. In mid-2006, the last Air Canada CRJ-100 was transferred to Jazz.
On February 9, 2010, Jazz Aviation announced that it had finalized an agreement with Bombardier Commercial Aircraft for 15 Q400 NextGen turboprops with options for an additional 15 aircraft with deliveries to start in May 2011. They were to be configured in a 74-passenger, all-economy layout. The Q400s were used to replace older CRJ-100/200 models which were returned to lessor. The Q400s were delivered in the new
Air Canada Express paint scheme and were the first aircraft in the Jazz fleet to have the Air Canada Express branding.
On April 26, 2016, Jazz Aviation announced that the remaining CRJ-705 aircraft would be converted to CRJ-900s.
On January 14, 2019,
Chorus Aviation
Chorus Aviation is a Canadian holding company which owns regional airlines Jazz Aviation LP and Voyageur Airways as well as lessor Chorus Aviation Capital.
It was founded in 2006 as Jazz Air Income Fund, when then parent company ACE Aviation ...
, the parent company of Jazz Aviation, announced an extension to its Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Air Canada until 2035. Along with the extension of the CPA, 14 additional CRJ-900 aircraft would be acquired, the first five of which would be sourced by Air Canada from
SkyWest Airlines.
Fleet history
Jazz operated 28
Dash 8-300s for Air Canada Express. Retired from service with last commercial flight on 9 January 2022.
Air Canada Jazz previously operated 10
BAe 146-200
The British Aerospace 146 (also BAe 146) is a short-haul and regional airliner that was manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace, later part of BAE Systems. Production ran from 1983 until 2001. Manufacture by Avro Internationa ...
aircraft (on behalf of Air Canada) which was inherited from Air Nova and Air BC. They were retired from service in 2005.
Jazz previously operated a fleet of six
Boeing 757-200 aircraft, branded as Thomas Cook Canada for the 2010-2013 winter seasons.
Jazz operated 25 CRJ-100 aircraft from 2004 to 2013 on behalf of Air Canada. They were replaced by the Q400.
Jazz operated a fleet of 40
Dash 8-100 aircraft. They were retired from service, with the last revenue flight on 6 May 2020.
Jazz also operated 30
Fokker F28
The Fokker F28 Fellowship is a twin-engined, short-range jet airliner designed and built by Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
Following the Fokker F27 Friendship, an early and commercially successful turboprop-powered regional airliner, Fokk ...
jets under the Canadian Regional and then Air Canada Regional banners.
Cabins
Business Class
''Business Class'' is Air Canada's premium product in North America, and is offered by Jazz (doing business as Air Canada Express) on the CRJ-900 and E175. There are 12 leather covered seats, each equipped with a 120V power outlet and personal audio/video on demand featuring Air Canada's ''enRoute Ò½'' inflight entertainment system by Thales.
The newest 14 CRJ-900s are not equipped with audio/video on demand.
Economy Class
Jazz's Dash 8-400 and CRJ-200 fleet feature all ''Economy Class'' cabins. The Dash 8-400s feature Bombardier's ''NextGen'' interior.
The Dash 8-400s, CRJ-200s, and CRJ-900s (Economy Class) feature B/E Aerospace's ''Premium Economy'' Spectrum seat. The ''Economy Class'' seats on 21 CRJ-900 are equipped with personal audio/video on demand featuring Air Canada's ''enRoute Ò½'' inflight entertainment system by Thales, with seats from rows 12 to 18 having 120V power outlets. 14 of the CRJ-900s do not feature seat back screens.
Seating is abreast.
Onboard services
All Jazz flights operating for Air Canada offer a complimentary hot and cold beverage service as well as sweet or savoury snacks, with alcoholic beverages available for purchase. On flights over 90 minutes, Jazz operates a
buy on board
Buy may refer to a trade, i.e., an exchange of goods and services via bartering or a monetary purchase.
The term may also refer to:
Places
* Buy (inhabited locality), any of several inhabited localities in Russia
* Burlington-Alamance Regional A ...
service for Air Canada called ''Air Canada Bistro'' offering snacks for purchase. On flights three hours and fifteen minutes or more in duration, sandwiches are added to the buy on board offering. Only major credit cards are accepted for payment on board.
Incidents
*On May 20, 2007, Jazz Aviation flight 8911, operated by a
Bombardier CRJ-100
The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 (previously Canadair CRJ100 and CRJ200) is a regional jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace between 1991 and 2006, the first of the Bombardier CRJ family.
The ''Canadair Regional Jet'' (CRJ) pr ...
registered C-FRIL, which originated in
Moncton
Moncton (; ) is the most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the The Maritimes, Maritime Provinces. The ...
, had its main landing gear collapse at
Toronto-Pearson International Airport
Lester B. Pearson International Airport , commonly known as Toronto Pearson International Airport, is an international airport located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the main airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and the surr ...
while turning from the runway onto the taxiway after an extremely hard landing. There were no injuries. The aircraft was written off and was cancelled from the Canadian Aircraft Register on 18 July 2007.
* On November 6, 2014, a
Bombardier Q400 operating as Air Canada Express Flight 8481, originating in Calgary and destined for Grande Prairie, blew a tire upon takeoff. The plane diverted to Edmonton due to high cross winds in Calgary. As the plane landed the right landing gear failed and a propeller blade broke off and impacted the fuselage. Four passengers were injured and taken to hospital, the last being released 2 days later; all had minor injuries.
* On February 24, 2015, a
Dash 8-100 operating Jazz Aviation flight 7795, originating in
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
and destined for
Sault Ste. Marie, struck a runway lead-in light on approach in poor weather conditions and was substantially damaged. No injuries were reported.
*On May 9, 2019, Jazz Aviation Flight 8615, Toronto (CYYZ) to Sudbury (CYSB) was operated by a
Dash 8-300 with tail C-FJXZ. The flight departed for Sudbury and diverted back to Toronto due to bad weather in Sudbury. While taxiing back to the gate the plane was struck by a Menzies fuel truck. The left side of the aircraft sustained major damage to the nose cone, left propeller and left rear portion of the aircraft. At the time of the incident, there were 5 reported injuries cared for and transported by Peel Regional Paramedics to hospital.
References
External links
Official website
{{Airlines of Canada
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