Norway House Cree Nation has renewed its community partnership agreement with Perimeter Aviation for another 10 years, the airline announced Dec. 6.
The agreement means that Norway House Cree Nation, the largest Manitoba community served by Perimeter, with about 8,000 people, identifies the airline as its preferred provider of air transportation needs.
These community partnership agreements with Norway House Cree Nation and 15 other remote communities that Perimeter serves in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, have grown over the past 10 years.
"Our partnership agreements are not based on profit, but rather they are based on the amount of support a community demonstrates for our service," said Perimeter's vice-president of commercial operations Carlos Castillo in a press release. "We believe that our low fares offering flexible fare rules, superior service and our community partnership agreements are some of the important reasons more and more communities are asking us to provide service."
Established in 1960 and acquired by Exchange Income Corporation in 2004, Perimeter Aviation provides daily scheduled service to more than 25 communities in Manitoba and Ontario, and has main bases of operations in Thompson, Winnipeg and Sioux Lookout. The airline has approximately 575 employees, about 20 per cent of whom are people of Aboriginal descent from the communities the airline serves. Perimeter also provides medevac operations and cargo flights as well as on-demand charter services and operates out of its own terminal at the Winnipeg airport.
