The real news the setting up of U.S. customs preclearance in Halifax. Then we will see the US carriers coming our way. That will be good news for Tourism and our real estate market! Cross your fingers an airtpot spokeperson says it should be available by the summer of 2006.
In another article in the Halifax Herald published on Tuesday January 11, Roger Taylor (full article not available) reports news from the Halifax International Airport Authority that they are making a big push “to encourage European carries to offer non-stop flights to Halifax from various centres”.

Some of the players may be Canadian Affair, a travel agency in England utilizing Thomas Cook Airlines . Some of the peak summer carriers already coming into Halifax are Zoom and out of Frankfurt, Condor also flies the summer peak season. Rumor has it that Air Transat will open a couple of routes to two German destinations this season.

The think the above news on more European flights is nice, but I figure the bloom is off the rose for Atlantic Canada and the Europeans, However I believe the emerging market is the U.K. I expect to see a lot of action from that part of the world soon.

The real news is the setting up of U.S. customs pre-clearance in Halifax. Then we will see the US carriers coming our way. That will be good news for Tourism and our real estate market! Cross your fingers, an airport spokesperson says it should be available by the summer of 2006.

We already have a few carries making US destinations from Halifax. American Eagle does Halifax to New York’s JFK, Delta offers up flights to Boston, Continental flies from Halifax into Newark, N.J, and a Canadian carrier Jazz does Boston too.

Hopefully with customs pre-clearance Delta will reopen its Washington-Halifax flight cancelled after 911. I believe that flight is sorely missed by a number of people, many of my clients included.

Hey here is something I didn’t know existed. Halifax International Airport flight arrivals and departures online . Pretty slick!

And something I knew but forgot all about is the actual live virtual flight maps of arriving aircraft into Halifax. Super slick!!

T.H.

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