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Top 25 Commuter airlines based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 51 commuter airlines headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 7,397 professional contacts across them, including 3,386 with verified work emails. Thunder Bay is the largest hub.
This list covers commuter airlines headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest commuter airlines based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 721 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Canadian North connects people and delivers essential goods throughout Northern communities in Canada – safely, reliably and always with friendly and helpful customer service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 485 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Air Inuit fournit des services essentiels de transport aérien régulier, nolisé, de cargo et d'urgence au Nunavik et au-delà, 24 heures par jour, 365 jours par année, et ce, depuis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 396 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1960, Perimeter Aviation is a Manitoba-based airline with a proud history of providing vital scheduled, charter, freight, and medevac flight services in Northern…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 353 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At PAL Airlines, we’ve got a way with people, and a way of connecting them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pacific Coastal Airlines is a privately owned, British Columbia–based regional airline operating from the South Terminal at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), currently…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imagine the quantities of food, clothing, hardware, building materials, gasoline, heating fuel, boats, motors, snowmobiles, medical supplies, school and office supplies that are…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 70 years of flying experience, First Air is the leading airline in Canada’s Arctic.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1987, Central Mountain Air Ltd.(CMA) is a privately owned and operated Canadian company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1977, Air North, Yukon’s Airline, is a proud emblem of the Yukon community, with 49% ownership by the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 35 years, Air Tindi has been a Northern based airline headquartered in Yellowknife, NWT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nolinor, le spécialiste de l’avion nolisé Fondée en 1992, Nolinor Aviation est une entreprise de transport aérien spécialisée dans les vols commerciaux nolisés.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “North Star Air is leading Canadian airline operating scheduled passenger service in Northwest Ontario and cargo and charter services throughout Ontario, Northern Manitoba and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rise Air is celebrating 70 years of history, reflecting the operations that united to create the organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The story of North Cariboo Air starts in the North Cariboo region of British Columbia - Williams Lake to be exact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Air Creebec est une compagnie aérienne régionale qui relie les communautés du Nord et du Sud du Québec et de l’Ontario.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Air Bravo was founded in 2001 as a small, one aircraft air service in Northern Ontario.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thunder Airlines proudly operates Daily Scheduled Flights, Charters, and Cargo flights serving Thunder Bay, Timmins, James Bay, and Northern Ontario.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seair Seaplanes offers seamless connections and breathtaking views through scheduled flights, scenic tours, and private charters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “North-Wright Airways is the Sahtu Region’s premier air service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Through a historic agreement between the Innu and Inuit of Labrador, together with PAL Airlines, Air Borealis is an airline all can take great pride in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fly Where You Want, When You Want.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As part of the Perimeter Aviation family, Bearskin Airlines proudly connects Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba with reliable scheduled air services, cargo deliveries, and charter…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pivot Airlines is a Canadian charter and regional airline launched in June 2020, headquartered at Toronto's Pearson airport.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nanaimo Airport is a growing regional airport located midway between Nanaimo and Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “McMurray Aviation, Specializes in many aviation fields.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: commuter airlines. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names commuter airlines.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of commuter airlines, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name commuter airlines. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Commuter airlines based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 51 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among commuter airlines, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “commuter airlines”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names commuter airlines), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among commuter airlines, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,386 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names commuter airlines, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many commuter airlines are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 51 commuter airlines headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Canadian North, headquartered in Ottawa, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most commuter airlines?
Thunder Bay leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Calgary (3) and Quebec (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,386 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 51 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.