Harmony Airways
Defunct airine
Harmony Airways was a Canadian airline headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver. It operated flights from Canada to California, Hawaii, New York City, Mexico and Las Vegas as well as scheduled passenger service domestically within Canada. Its main base was Vancouver International Airport (YVR).
History
The airline was officially announced as HMY Airways (an abbreviation for Harmony) by David Ting Kwok Ho in February 2002. After acquiring two Boeing 757-200 jetliners in September and November 2002, the airline's inaugural flight flew from Vancouver in November 2002. The airline was wholly owned by David Ting Kwok Ho.
Throughout the mid-2000s, the airline steadily expanded, first within Canada, but it soon expanded to Hawaii and to destinations in the western USA. Future plans included expanding into China, but those plans were never realized. The airline was renamed Harmony Airways in May 2004.
Harmony's telephone reservations were contracted to a dedicated call centre team at Vantis Corporation in Calgary, Alberta (later briefly renamed Vantis-TravelCLICK before closing down Calgary operations in October 2006). Vantis (previously known as VIP) was a third-party call centre based in Calgary before being acquired by TravelCLICK in October 2005, then having operations moved to Jamaica in October 2006.
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