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Harmony Airways

Airline of Canada (2002–2007)

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).² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2002Founded¹

HeadquartersVancouver¹
Websitewww.harmonyairways.com

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The story

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. Harmony's call centre contract with Vantis-TravelCLICK ended after Harmony ceased operations in 2007.

According to its 2004-2005 route map and timetable, Harmony was operating scheduled nonstop Boeing 757 passenger jet service between Vancouver (YVR) and Toronto (YYZ), Honolulu (HNL), Maui (OGG), Los Angeles (LAX) and Las Vegas (LAS) as well as nonstop Boeing 757 passenger flights between Victoria, BC (YYJ) and Honolulu (HNL) at this time.

In 2006, the airline then expanded its service between western Canada and Hawaii with nonstop Boeing 757 flights between Honolulu (HNL) and Calgary (YYC), Edmonton (YEG) and Kelowna (YLW) in addition to continuing to operate nonstop service between Honolulu (HNL) and Vancouver (YVR) and Victoria (YYJ), and was also operating nonstop 757 service between Maui (OGG) and Calgary (YYC) and Edmonton (YEG) in addition to continuing to operate nonstops between Maui (OGG) and Vancouver (YVR) at this time.

From June 2006 to October 2006, Harmony Airways leased a Bombardier CRJ-100 to operate the Vancouver - Calgary route. The aircraft was configured in a single-class 50-seat configuration, and was painted in a hybrid, United Express - Harmony Airways livery.

On March 27, 2007, Harmony Airways announced that it had issued layoff notices to all staff, and that it was ending scheduled flight service on April 9, 2007, due to increasing fuel costs and having a hard time attracting full-service passengers amid low-cost competition, such as WestJet. Harmony also had a hard time attracting profitable business travelers, due to a lack of a frequent flier program and lacking services to popular business destinations.

From Wikipedia’s article on Harmony Airways, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.³

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Destinations

As of October 2006, Harmony Airways operated services to the following destinations:

Canada

Alberta

Calgary – Calgary International Airport

Edmonton – Edmonton International Airport (Seasonal)

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British Columbia

Abbotsford – Abbotsford International Airport

Kelowna – Kelowna International Airport (Seasonal)

Vancouver – Vancouver International Airport (Base)

Victoria – Victoria International Airport (Seasonal)

Ontario

Toronto – Toronto Pearson International Airport

United States

California

Los Angeles – Los Angeles International Airport

Oakland – Oakland International Airport

Palm Springs – Palm Springs International Airport

Hawaii

Hilo – Hilo International Airport

Honolulu – Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

Maui – Kahului Airport

Nevada

Las Vegas – Harry Reid International Airport

New York

New York City – John F. Kennedy International Airport

Fleet

The Harmony Airways fleet consisted of Boeing 757-200 aircraft. For a short period of time in 2006, Harmony Airways operated a Bombardier CRJ-100 aircraft on its Vancouver - Calgary route.

As of March 2007 the Harmony Airways fleet included four Boeing 757-200 aircraft. On March 22, 2007, the National Post reported that Harmony Airways would reduce its fleet to three 757s. In the summer of 2007, British engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce purchased two of Harmony's 757s in order to harvest the plane's RB211-535 engines to support other customers' engine needs. Rolls-Royce then sold the remaining aircraft hulls to an American salvage company.

Services

Harmony Airways offered two classes of service on their Boeing 757-200 aircraft (the Bombardier CRJ-100 was single-class): Business and Economy class. Both classes were advertised as being full-service compared to WestJet and other low-cost alternatives.

Business class

Available on Boeing 757-200 aircraft, Business class was Harmony's flagship product. Business class was sometimes marketed as harmonyone. Seats had a pitch of 52 inches, and a width of 22 inches. Passengers were given personal AVOD (Audio Video On Demand) systems to use during the flight. Amenity kits were also provided.

Economy Class

Harmony Airways promoted their economy class as higher quality than other airlines, stating "We really shouldn't even use the word economy". Seats had a pitch of 810 mm (32 in). Harmony gave out free headphones in Economy class that passengers could keep, to use with the Inflight entertainment. Complimentary hot meals were served on longer routes.