New daily non-stop Vancouver to Yellowknife flights starting at $219

It’s about to get a lot easier to see the aurora borealis folks.

This winter, Vancouver will have a new non-stop daily flight route to Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories.

Air Canada will operate the service between Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and Yellowknife Airport (YZF).

The flights, starting at $219, will operate from December 15, 2017 to April 1, 2018, and will be the only daily service between YVR and YZF.

The new service will depart YVR at 4 pm and arrive at YZF and 7:30 pm, while return trips will depart YZF at 7:30 am, arriving at YVR at 8:53 am.

In a release, Benjamin Smith, president of Air Canada’s passenger airlines section, said the new flights would make it easier to catch the aurora borealis.

“These new non-stop flights will shave off almost four hours of round-trip travel time for customers travelling between Canada’s west coast and the Northwest Territories,” he said.

Flights to Yellowknife will be operated on Air Canada’s 75-seat Bombardier CRJ-705 aircraft, with a choice of Business Class or Economy service.

According to the release, in 2017, Air Canada has launched new services from Vancouver to Taipei, Frankfurt, London-Gatwick, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Boston, with Melbourne seasonal flights to begin December 1, and Delhi seasonal service resuming on October 14 increasing up to five times weekly for the 2017/2018 season.

New and improved major YVR routes 2016/2017

• January 1, 2016: Orlando International Airport – WestJet to begin twice weekly non-stop seasonal flight service.
• January 20, 2016: Orlando-Sanford International Airport – National Airlines to begin two times weekly seasonal flight service.
• February 15, 2016: Cancun, Mexico – Air Canada to begin weekly, non-stop seasonal service.
• May 1, 2016: London Heathrow Airport – British Airways to use an AirBus A380 superjumbo jet for its existing daily non-stop London Heathrow Airport service. The A380 will only be used during the summer months.
• May 6, 2016: London Gatwick Airport – WestJet to begin six times weekly non-stop flight service.
• May 9, 2016: Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport – Air Canada to begin twice daily, non-stop service to San Jose.
• June 1, 2016: Brisbane, Australia – Air Canada to begin daily non-stop flight service.
• June 2, 2016: San Diego International Airport – Air Canada to begin daily, non-stop seasonal service.
• June 4, 2016: Chicago O’Hare International Airport – Air Canada to begin daily, non-stop service.
• June 10, 2016: Dublin Airport – Air Canada to begin seasonal, three times weekly non-stop flight service.
• June 29, 2016: London, Ontario – WestJet to begin four times weekly non-stop seasonal flight service.
• June 29, 2016: Halifax, Nova Scotia – WestJet to begin four times weekly non-stop seasonal flight service.
• June 30, 2016: Hamilton, Ontario – WestJet to begin three times weekly non-stop seasonal flight service.
• July 25, 2016: Xiamen, China – Xiamen Airlines to begin three times weekly non-stop flight service.
• October 20, 2016: Delhi, India – Air Canada to begin three times weekly non-stop flight service.
• December 1, 2016: Mexico City, Mexico – Aeromexico increases weekly flights from 14 to 20.
• December 20, 2016: Nanjing, China – China Eastern Airlines to begin three times weekly non-stop flight service.
• December 30, 2016: Hangzhou, China via Qingdao, China – Beijing Capital Airlines to begin three times weekly service.
• February 5, 2017: Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas – Air Canada to begin daily service.
• March 28, 2017: Hong Kong, China – Cathay Pacific increases weekly flights from 14 to 17.
• May 1, 2017: Phoenix, Arizona – Air Canada to begin daily service.
• May 18, 2017: Denver, Colorado – Air Canada to begin twice daily service.
• June 1, 2017: Nagoya, Japan – Air Canada to begin seasonal three times weekly service.
• June 1, 2017: Frankfurt, Germany – Air Canada to begin daily service.
• June 8, 2017: Taipei, Taiwan – Air Canada to begin daily service.
• June 8, 2017: London, UK (Gatwick Airport) – Air Canada to begin three times weekly service.
• June 23, 2017: Boston, Massachusetts – Air Canada to begin daily summer seasonal service.
• June 30, 2017: Hong Kong, China – Hong Kong Airlines to begin daily non-stop flight service.
• October 14, 2017: Delhi, India – Air Canada to increase seasonal service to five weekly flights.
• October 29, 2017: Huatulco, Mexico – WestJet to begin weekly non-stop flight service.
• October 29, 2017: Kona and Kauai, Hawaii – WestJet to start seasonal service earlier than usual.
• December 1, 2017: Melbourne, Australia – Air Canada to begin four times weekly non-stop seasonal service.
• December 15, 2017: Yellowknife, Northern Territories – Air Canada to begin daily non-stop service.
• December 20, 2017: Orlando International Airport – Air Canada to begin twice weekly non-stop seasonal service.
• January 1, 2018: Reykjavík, Iceland – Icelandair to upgrade existing seasonal service to three times weekly year-round service.