Discount air service NewLeaf to offer flights to Phoenix from Calgary and Edmonton

Discount air travel company NewLeaf will start providing flights from Calgary and Edmonton to Phoenix, Az., next year.

The company, which operates in partnership with Flair Airlines,will offer three weekly flights to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway from Calgary fromJan. 19 to the end of April.

In Edmonton, the once-weekly flight will depart Saturdays between Jan. 21 to the end of April.

The companypreviously announcedit will providefares to and from Calgary International Airport to Abbotsford, Hamilton, Halifax, and Moncton from Dec. 16 to Jan. 8.

"Every time we expand our schedule, we prove the 'experts' wrong, and we are quite happy about that," said President and CEOJim Young in a release.

NewLeaf is also offering flights from Hamilton, Ont., to Orlando Melbourne airport in Florida.

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