Kenn Borek Air also operates charter flights.
Historical passenger airline service Historically, the airport was served by several airlines operating direct, no-change-of-plane scheduled passenger jet service from such Canadian cities as Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Yellowknife. Airlines included
Canadian Airlines,
Nordair,
Pacific Western Airlines and
Transair. Jet aircraft operated in the past in scheduled service into the airport included
Boeing 727 and
Boeing 737 jetliners.
First Air also operated scheduled jet service with
Boeing 727-200 as well as with
Boeing 727-100 and
Boeing 737-200 aircraft in the past. Nordair was serving Resolute in 1964 with
Douglas DC-4 prop aircraft, with twice-weekly flights from
Montreal Dorval Airport via intermediate stops in Fort Chimo (now
Kuujjuaq), Frobisher Bay (now
Iqaluit) and Hall Beach (now
Sanirajak). In 1968, Nordair was operating nonstop service from
Montreal twice a week with
Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliners, with the southbound Constellation return flights to Montreal making an intermediate stop in Frobisher Bay, with the airline also operating twice-weekly Douglas DC-4 service to Montreal at this time via en route stops in Frobisher Bay and Hall Beach.
Pacific Western Airlines was serving Resolute by 1969 with
Douglas DC-6 service, flown once a week, with this flight operating a routing of
Edmonton -
Yellowknife -
Cambridge Bay -
Resolute. By 1970, Nordair had introduced Boeing 737-200 jet service direct to Montreal Dorval Airport, with three flights a week being operated via a stop in Frobisher Bay. According to the February 1, 1976
Official Airline Guide (OAG), three airlines were flying scheduled passenger jet service into the Resolute Bay Airport at this time:
Nordair, operating Boeing 737-200 flights twice a week from Montreal Dorval Airport via an intermediate stop in Frobisher Bay;
Pacific Western Airlines, operating Boeing 727-100 flights twice a week on a routing of
Calgary International Airport -
Edmonton International Airport -
Yellowknife Airport - Resolute Bay Airport; and
Transair, operating Boeing 737-200 flights once a week from
Winnipeg via an intermediate stop in
Churchill. The September 15, 1994 OAG listed two airlines flying scheduled jet service into the airport at that time:
Canadian Airlines (which formerly operated as
CP Air), operating direct
Boeing 737 flights from Edmonton twice a week and also twice a week direct from Montreal; and
First Air, operating direct
Boeing 727 flights from
Ottawa once a week in addition to nonstop 727 flights from Yellowknife once a week. Canadian Airlines flights from Edmonton International Airport made intermediate stops in Yellowknife and Cambridge Bay while its flights from Montreal Dorval Airport made intermediate stops at
Iqaluit Airport and
Nanisivik Airport. The First Air service from Ottawa also made intermediate stops in Iqaluit and
Nanisivik. The OAG indicates that Canadian and First Air were both operating
gravel kit-equipped
combi aircraft versions of their respective Boeing jets on their flights into the airport, with these aircraft being capable of being flown in mixed passenger/freight configuration, and also listed local flights into Resolute from
Grise Fiord, Nanisivik and
Pond Inlet, operated by
Kenn Borek Air with
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter STOL turboprop aircraft. As of early 2022,
Canadian North serves Resolute only with twin-turboprop
ATR 42 aircraft. Its sole route to Resolute is from Iqaluit, with a stop at Arctic Bay. Boeing 737 jet connections are provided between Montreal/Ottawa and Iqaluit. Any future jet service to Resolute from southern Canadian cities cannot land at Arctic Bay en route, because it has only a 3,935-foot-long runway. The 6,400-foot runway at nearby Nanisivik Airport was closed to civilian air traffic on January 13, 2011, and is 9.2 miles from the new Nanisivik Naval Facility being constructed near Nanisivik. A key reason for siting the new Canadian naval base there is the prior presence of the "jet-capable" runway, which will now become part of the new naval base. ==Accidents==