Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Christopher Reynolds
Publication Date: May 18, 2025 - 11:51
Why Canada hosts more old passenger jets than any other country — by far
May 18, 2025
Each morning, travellers and cargo take off from Montreal’s Trudeau airport for a 1,600-kilometre flight to Puvirnituq in northern Quebec aboard a nearly 50-year-old Air Inuit plane.This seasoned Boeing 737 previously cruised the skies above Europe and Central Africa for now-defunct carriers in France, Gabon and the Congo. But now its trips are all-Canadian, shuttling people, food and building materials between the country’s second-biggest city and a village of 2,100.
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