West Wind Aviation and subsidiary Transwest Air to merge

Canadian newsoutlet CBC is reporting that West Wind Aviation and its fully owned subsidiary Transwest Air will merge their operations and consolidate on one AOC, rebranding as Rise Air. The moves comes as a cost-saving measure which is needed after the impact of the global pandemic on both companies.

West Wind Aviation was founded in 1983 and currently operates a fleet of three ATR42s, four Beech 1900C/Ds, four Beech 200s and two DHC-6s. Transwest Air was formed in 2000 and acquired by West Wind Aviation in June 2016. It operates a fleet of three Saab 340s, two Beech 1900Ds, one Beech 350, one Beech 300, four Beech 200s, one Beech 100, five DHC-6s, one DHC-3, two DHC-2s and one Cessna 185. Transwest also has a helicopter-unit operating as Northern Shield, which has a fleet of two Bell 205s, two Bell 206 and three Bell 407s.

Photo by West Wind Aviation.