Pacific Coastal Airlines is a Canadian regional airline that operates scheduled, charter and cargo services to destinations in British Columbia. Its head office is located in the South Terminal of Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia.[4] Its main base is Vancouver International Airport.
History
The original Pacific Coastal Airlines was established in 1956 as Cassidair Services,[5] operating from its base at the airport in Cassidy, now Nanaimo Airport, south of Nanaimo.[6] In early 1980, the airline was acquired by Jim Pattison Industries and absorbed into Airwest Airlines, also recently acquired by Pattison.[7] At the time of the acquisition, Pacific Coastal was operating on the Nanaimo-Vancouver,