Air Atlantic

Atlantic Air was an airline in Canada. The airline was founded in St. John's began their flight operations in Newfoundland take with aircraft of type DHC -7. These were replaced by the DHC -8 in 1986.

The small airline had a partnership with CP Air, and later with Canadian Airlines. Atlantic Air received its first jet in 1990 in the form of BAe 146 and started to fly international routes in the United States. Air Atlantic made ​​from the end of 1990 increased financial difficulties to create whereupon Canadian Airlines bought a significant share of the airline. In October 1998, the financially troubled airline, a flight operations.