Pacific Western Airlines

Pacific Western Airlines is a commercial airline in British Columbia offering scheduled domestic and continental services.

It is a Crown corporation owned jointly by the government of BC and the provincial government of Alberta, Canada. Inside Canada, it is the most important airline in the western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and in Canada's North - the Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories.

= History = Pacific Western Air Lines was established in 1952 when the BC government, which had taken control of several small but regionally important airlines during the Second World War, merged Central British Columbia Airways, Kamloops Air Service, Northern Air Lines, Queen Charlotte Airways, and Skeena Air Transport into a single company. In 1955, it absorbed Port Alberni Airways, and in 1959, the BC Dominion government and the Alberta provincial government decided to merge their Crown-held air transport companies; Pacific Western absorbed Alberta's Associated Airways and the Alberta Government Air Service, and Alberta took a 50% share of PWAL.

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