Decision No. 161-A-1988

June 29, 1988

File No. 2-T443-1

Docket No. 88046

By letter dated May 6, 1988, Tagish Air Service Ltd. was advised that no objections to its application were filed and that a licence would be issued subject to it meeting the requirements of the Agency set out in paragraph 72(2)(a) of the National Transportation Act, 1987, S.C. 1987, c. 34.

Tagish Air Service Ltd. has now met the requirements of the Agency.

Accordingly, the Agency will issue to Tagish Air Service Ltd. a licence to operate a Class 4 Charter domestic service from a base at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

To make provision for the level of charter domestic service to be consistent with demand anticipated by the applicant and in accordance with the applicant's indicated intentions, the Agency finds it in the public interest to authorize the Licensee to use fixed wing aircraft in Groups A and B.

Moreover, to preserve the integrity of the Class 1 Scheduled domestic services and the Class 2 Regular Specific Point domestic services in the designated area, the Agency deems it in the public interest to make the licence subject to the terms and conditions respecting route protection as set out in the attachment.

The licence to be issued pursuant to this Decision shall, in addition to the conditions prescribed by the Air Transportation Regulations, SOR 88-58, be subject to the condition respecting route protection contained in the attachment, which is hereby made a part of this Decision, and to the following condition:

The Licensee is authorized to use fixed wing aircraft in Groups A and B.