This is a list of airlines that are based in Ontario which have an air operator's certificate issued by Transport Canada, the country's civil aviation authority.
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Hub airport(s) or headquarters |
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Adler Aviation | SWH | SHOCKWAVE | Waterloo | Charters, cargo, flight training[1] | ||
AirExpress Ontario | Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier, Chatham-Kent, Oshawa Municipal |
Charters[2] | ||||
Bearskin Airlines | ![]() |
BLS | BEARSKIN | Sioux Lookout, Thunder Bay |
Regional, scheduled passenger service, charters[3] | |
Brock Air Services | BRD | BROCK AIR | Kingston/Norman Rogers | Charters and MEDIVAC (air ambulance)[4] | ||
Cargojet | ![]() |
W8 | CJT | CARGOJET | John C. Munro Hamilton | Cargo[5] |
First Air | ![]() |
7F | FAB | FIRST AIR | Yellowknife, Iqaluit |
Scheduled passenger service, cargo, charters[6] |
Flightexec | ![]() |
FEX | Buttonville, London |
Charter airline, MEDIVAC (air ambulance)[7][8] | ||
Helicopter Transport Services | ![]() |
Carp | Charters, MEDIVAC (air ambulance), aerial firefighting[9] | |||
Nakina Air Service | T2 | Nakina | Floatplane charters[10] | |||
Ornge | Thunder Bay, Sioux Lookout, Timmins/Victor M. Power |
Air ambulance | ||||
Porter Airlines | ![]() |
PD | POE | PORTER AIR | Billy Bishop Toronto | Regional airline[11] |
Silverline Helicopters | Holland Landing | |||||
SkyLink Aviation | SKK | SKYLINK | Toronto Pearson | Charters, cargo[12] | ||
SkyLink Express | SLQ | SKYLINK | Toronto Pearson | Charters, cargo[13] | ||
Stanton Airways | Orillia/Lake St John | Floatplanes, charters and fly-in fishing camps[14] | ||||
Superior Airways | ![]() |
Red Lake | Charters[15] | |||
Thunder Airlines | ![]() |
THU | AIR THUNDER | Thunder Bay | Scheduled passenger service, charters[16] | |
Voyageur Airways | ![]() |
VC | VAL | VOYAGEUR | North Bay/Jack Garland | Charters, MEDIVAC (air ambulance)[17] |
Wasaya Airways | WSG | WASAYA | Thunder Bay | Scheduled passenger service, charters[18] | ||
White River Air | WRA | White River | Fly-in outposts[19] | |||
Wilderness Air | ![]() |
Vermilion Bay | Floatplanes, fly-in fishing camps[20] |
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Hub airport(s) or headquarters |
Notes |
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30000 Island Air | ![]() |
Parry Sound Harbour | 2000? - ?, charter rental and leasing service air operator based in Parry Sound, Ontario using de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver | |||
Air Ontario | ![]() |
GX | ONT | ONTARIO | London | 1987 - 2001, to Air Canada Jazz |
Air Toronto | CS | CNE | CONNECTOR | Toronto Pearson | 1984-19991 | |
AllCanada Express | ![]() |
CNX | CANEX | Toronto Pearson | 1992 - 2005 | |
Austin Airways | ![]() |
AAW | Timmins/Victor M. Power | 1934 - 1987, to Air Ontario | ||
Canada 3000 | ![]() |
2T | CMM | ELITE | Toronto Pearson | 1988 - 2001, formerly Canada 2000; Canada 3000 Cargo sold to Cargojet and 2005 revival failed |
City Express | ![]() |
Peterborough | 1971 - 1991, founded as Air Atonabee 1971 | |||
Great Lakes Airlines | Sarnia Chris Hadfield | 1958 - 1983, to Air Ontario | ||||
Intair | ![]() |
ND | INT | INTAIR | Toronto Pearson | 1989 - 1991, established by City Express as a successor to Skycraft Air Transport |
Millardair | ![]() |
Toronto Pearson | 1962 - 1990, continued as aircraft maintenance and servicing firm Millard Air Incorporated (Millardair MRO) 1990-2012 | |||
NAC Air | HMR | HAMMER | Thunder Bay | 2000 - 2008, North American Charters was 100% First Nations owned | ||
NorOntair | ![]() |
NOA | NORONTAIR | Sault Ste. Marie | 1971 - 1996, airline operations of Ontario Northland Transportation Commission | |
Odyssey International | ![]() |
OL | ODY | ODYSSEY | Toronto Pearson | 1988 - 1990, name, aircraft and some employees were merged with Nationair, and operated as a separate division of Nolisair for a short period of time |
Ontario Central Airlines | NUN | NUNASI | Kenora | 1947 - 1991?, became Nunasi-Central Airlines in 1984 and then to Nunasi-Northland Airlines in 1987 | ||
Ontario Express | 9X | OEL | PARTNER | 1980s - 1998, to Canadian Airlines | ||
Pem-Air | PD | OEM | PEM-AIR | Pembroke | 1970 - 2002 | |
Roots Air | 6J | SSV | SKYTOUR | Toronto Pearson | 2000 - 2001, part of Roots Canada, ceased operations when ownership acquired by Air Canada | |
Skycraft Air Transport | ![]() |
Oshawa | 1977 - 1989, reincarnated in 1989 and operating until 1994. | |||
Skyservice Airlines | ![]() |
5G | SSV | SKYTOUR | Toronto Pearson | 1986 - 2010, differs from existing Skyservice Business Aviation - same owners |
Soundair | SDR | SOUNDAIR | Toronto Pearson | 1973-1990, owned Odyssey International and Air Toronto. Previously Owen Sound Air Services. DBA Soundair Express. | ||
Starratt Airways | Hudson, Kenora District | 1932 - 1942, to Canadian Pacific Airlines | ||||
Vacationair | ![]() |
Toronto | 1988 - 1990, initiated by Gray Coach Lines | |||
Vision Airways Corporation | V6 | VSN | VISION | Timmins/Victor M. Power | ? - 1994 | |
Vistajet | VJT | VISTA | Ottawa, Toronto, Windsor |
1997 - 1997 | ||
Zoom Airlines | ![]() |
Z4 | OOM | ZOOM | Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier | 2002 - 2008, named acquired for new XPO Airlines 2009 |
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