Great North provides regional airline service to community partners and mainline carriers. The airline also specializes in delivering charters to corporate and leisure clients, the resource sector, sports teams, and government agencies.
Great North Airlines, which officially changed its name from Pivot Airlines on January 8, 2026, continues to lay the foundation for operational growth. In mid-2025, the airline signed a partnership with Air Charter Service (ACS), the world’s leading aircraft charter broker.
Amid all the growth on the horizon, the pilots are currently in negotiations to achieve an updated collective agreement with enhanced working conditions to improve pilot recruitment and retention.
The new partnership with ACS will develop Great North’s charter operation in terms of sales contracts and international growth. The agreement allows the carrier to focus on its business-to-business operations—providing essential and emergency air services for governments and nongovernment organizations and serving Canada’s resource and industrial sectors through workforce and project-based air programs.
In 2026, Great North will also reevaluate the timing of a return to scheduled regional airline service in partnership with shareholder Smart Green Aviation under the Connect Airlines brand.
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