News Items tag as: Kelowna airport

Kelowna airport sets new record with 2.1 million passengers in 2024
January 21, 2025 - 2:35 PM

Kelowna International Airport has set a new record for passengers in a single year.
WestJet aircraft mechanic strike continues to affect travellers in Kamloops, Okanagan
June 30, 2024 - 10:35 AM

The WestJet aircraft mechanic strike that started on Friday is ongoing and affecting flights in Kamloops and the Okanagan.
WestJet offering more flights out of Kelowna this summer
February 12, 2024 - 2:30 PM

Travellers will be able to jet across the country more easily this summer. WestJet has announced more frequent flights and three new destinations from Kelowna’s airport.
Despite COVID delays, rising costs Kelowna airport's $108M expansion back on track
February 11, 2024 - 8:00 AM

As Kelowna International Airport surpasses the two million passenger per year mark, its $108 million expansion project is well underway and no further delays are expected.
Why wildfires closed Kelowna airport this time and not others
August 25, 2023 - 7:41 AM

Wildfires are common in the Okanagan every summer but they don’t force the closure of the country’s tenth largest airport.
Check with your airline before heading to Kamloops and Okanagan airports
February 28, 2023 - 9:29 AM

Snowfall has forced the cancellation of several flights in and out of Vancouver today, Feb. 28, which is having a ripple effect in Kamloops and the Okanagan.
Most flights between southern Interior and Vancouver cancelled
December 23, 2022 - 9:30 AM

Three dozen flights have already been cancelled today, Dec. 23, to and from Kamloops, Kelowna and Penticton airports.
More than 100 flights cancelled at Kelowna airport so far this week
December 22, 2022 - 2:59 PM

Counting seven flights already cancelled for tomorrow, there have now been a total of 138 flights cancelled going in an out of Kelowna International Airport since Sunday.
Stratosphere Business Centre biggest industrial land sale in Kelowna’s history
August 09, 2022 - 7:00 AM

A Burnaby-based industrial land developer has the distinction of paying the highest price for a piece of industrial land ever in Kelowna.
Low cost airline Swoop heading into Kelowna
January 22, 2019 - 8:28 AM

KELOWNA - Non-stop flights by Swoop airlines between Kelowna and Winnipeg will run three days a week starting May 24.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

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