NewLeaf
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| Industry | Travel |
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| Founded | April 2015 |
| Headquarters | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Website | flynewleaf |
NewLeaf Travel Company Inc., branded as NewLeaf, is a Canadian virtual airline or ticket reseller based at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in Manitoba. It sells tickets for flights operated by Flair Airlines.
NewLeaf was founded in April 2015 and originally described as an ultra low-cost carrier. As a result of the CTA case, the company was later positioned instead as a reseller, buying airline seats and then reselling them to the public.
Jim Young, a former executive of Frontier Airlines and Canada Jetlines, proposed the venture. Young announced the airline will fly to secondary airports in Canada in order to save on landing fees; it will also offer vacation packages, after experimenting with selling spring ski packages to the Okanagan. The airline will partner with Flair Airlines, which will provide aircraft, crew and maintenance.
On June 8, 2015, the company selected Winnipeg Airport as its headquarters and hub, along with Kelowna Airport and Hamilton Airport as bases.
In July 2016 two consulting companies who had done work in 2014 and 2015 for NewLeaf levelled complaints that they had not been paid a total of $135,000 owed. The unpaid bills raised media concerns that the company was having solvency issues, although a lawyer representing NewLeaf characterized the issues as supplier disagreements. One of the unpaid vendors launched a lawsuit against the company in July 2016 for the owed $76,000.
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