FBOs
Full Service Winnipeg FBO Is Home to the Jets
Fast Air is a favorite of the hometown Winnipeg Jets
Fast Air FBO at CYWG
Operated by Fast Air since 2015, the FBO at Winnipeg International Airport sees a wide variety of traffic including charter airliners carrying professional hockey teams. (Photo: Fast Air)

Winnipeg might not be the first guess for the genesis of commercial aviation in Canada, but in 1920 the Manitoba city hosted the first passenger flight from what would eventually become Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (CYWG). Today, the field is home to Fast Air, one of three FBOs and one of the country’s largest aviation services providers.

The company—which began at CYWG in 1995 as an aircraft charter and management provider—purchased the existing Esso Avitat FBO in 2015 to provide better vertical integration with its fleet operations. It now is the dominant FBO on the field, claiming more than 60 percent of the general aviation business there, according to Dan Rutherford, Fast Air’s manager of business development.

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