Well their hockey team may be faring better than ours right now, but we score some points by stealing their twice weekly diamond mine flights going forward. Take that Edmonton!
Calgary Herald article on the move by De Beers:
http://calgaryherald.com/business/lo...medium=twitter
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CEO Kim Truter said the move from Edmonton makes sense since Calgary offers better connections for the company’s employees and visiting international colleagues.
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The Calgary Airport Authority welcomed Tuesday’s announcement, which president and CEO Bob Sartor said is part of what has the potential to be a burgeoning charter business at YYC and could not have happened without the opening of the new international terminal last year.
“We were so congested in this airport before building this new terminal that we were going to be faced potentially with the loss of business . . . We didn’t have the availability of gates,” Sartor said. “What the new terminal has given us is the ability to do these kinds of things.”
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