NOLINOR AVIATION has teamed up with Nunavut-based Sarliaq Aviation to sign a ten-year agreement with Agnico Eagle Mines to provide air transport for employees and cargo. The deal covers flights from Montreal and Abitibi-Témiscamingue to the company’s mining projects in the Kivalliq region in Nunavut, northern Canada. Jacques Prud’homme, President of Nolinor Aviation, explained: “We already provide employee and cargo transport for Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank openpit gold mine, near Baker Lake. The new agreement will add flights to Rankin Inlet for their new mine, Meliadine, currently under construction. In all, Nolinor will provide 416 flights per year, or eight flights per week, to Nunavut.”
Flights will be operated by Nolinor’s fleet of Boeing 737-200s.