CBC
As Northwestern Air Lease scales back operations, residents share gratitude and well-wishes
Brittany Scott still remembers the day Northwestern Air Lease saved Christmas.”I was flying home from Calgary … We kept seeing our flight getting delayed more and more, and we kind of realized, oh, we’re not going to make the connection from Edmonton to Fort Smith,” she recalled.It was Dec. 23, 2011 — a Friday. The next flight to Fort Smith, N.W.T., wouldn’t be until after Christmas. In university at the time, Scott and her fellow Fort Smith students faced the spectre of spending the holiday i