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Flights resumed yesterday between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the first since the service was suspended in November 2009.
The new service is being provided by a partnership between Twin Cities Air Service in Auburn, and the Yarmouth International Airport Corporation operator at the Yarmouth International airport.
Customs service provided by the Canada Border Services Agency has been saved with the new airline taking over the passenger service.
With the former air service discontinued and no ferry running this year between Yarmouth and Maine, the customs service was in jeopardy, said the national Customs and Immigration Union.
The president of Twin Cities Air Service, Nate Humphrey, said last month that the Auburn, Maine, company will use a twin-engine Cessna 402C aircraft on the route.
"It’ll carry seven passengers quite comfortably plus all their bags, and it cruises at roughly 200 miles per hour," he said
The plane will leave Portland at 11 a.m. and land in Yarmouth about 75 minutes later, at 1:15 p.m. local time. The flight departs again at 4 p.m.
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