Harmony Airways

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Harmony Airways

IATA HQ	ICAO HMY	Callsign Harmony
Founded		2002
Hubs		Vancouver International Airport
Fleet size		3
Destinations		9
Parent company		HMY Airways Inc
Headquarters		Vancouver, British Columbia
Key people		Dr. David T.K. Ho, Owner Kirk Henderson, Interim President
Website: http://www.harmonyairways.com http://www.harmonyvacations.com

A Harmony Boeing 757-200

Harmony Airways (formerly known as HMY Airways) was a full service scheduled passenger airline based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, YVR. Harmony offered advance seat selection, a full meal service, complimentary beverages, and in-flight entertainment and vacation packages (through its tour operator, Harmony Vacations).

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. The airline will examine other opportunities. Therefore it will not seek protection from creditors and might try to reorganize itself into a charter airline.

1 Destinations
2 Services
- 2.1 harmonyone
- 2.2 Harmony Vacations
3 Fleet
4 Partner airlines
5 Reasons for failure
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Destinations

Harmony Airways serves the following destinations (all services besides Toronto end on April 9, 2007):

From Calgary, Alberta to:

Honolulu, Hawaii (seasonal)

From Toronto, Ontario to:

Vancouver, British Columbia

From Victoria, British Columbia to:

Honolulu, Hawaii (seasonal)

From Kelowna, British Columbia to

Honolulu, Hawaii (seasonal)

From Edmonton, Alberta to:

Maui, Hawaii (seasonal)

[edit] Services

All economy passengers on Harmony Airways receive rows with a 32" seat pitch, meal and beverage service (including a glass of BC wine), in-flight movies and music (including free headphones) and free advance seat selection.

[edit] harmonyone

harmonyone is the business class service offered by Harmony Airways. Passengers receive express check-in, boarding priority, three- or four-course meals prepared by a chef that are served on china, wider seats than economy (with a 52" seat pitch), an amenity kit, Harmony Airway's "Interlude" hand-held entertainment system, and laptop plug-ins.

[edit] Harmony Vacations

Harmony Vacations (formerly Companion Holidays) is the tour operator for Harmony Airways offering package vacations to the Hawaiian Islands, California and Nevada, and offers connecting flights throughout British Columbia with Hawkair and Pacific Coastal Airlines. They also have an agreement with Air North for flights to and from Whitehorse. From Oahu and Maui, there are connecting flights with Hawaiian Airlines to the other Hawaiian Islands.

Harmony Vacations offer packages to: Las Vegas, Primm (Primm Valley), Palm Springs (seasonally), Honolulu, Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii ("The Big Island").

[edit] Fleet

As of August 2006 the Harmony Airways fleet includes ^[1] :

4 Boeing 757-200

On March 22, 2007 the National Post reported that Harmony Airways will reduce its fleet to 3 Boeing 757-200. ^[2]

Historical fleet

Bombardier CRJ-100 (2006)

[edit] Partner airlines

Canada and US

Asia and Oceania

[edit] Reasons for failure

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Even though the Canadian aviation market is very tough on new startups, a few early mistakes led to Harmony Airways quick demise. The choice of early 80's all 757 fleet did not help with rising fuel costs. With planes seating 171 passengers, the 757-200 compared poorly to Westjet's 166 passenger 737-800. The 737 had significant cost advantages such as landing fees, fuel consumption, and other operating costs [1]. The company was also impatient with its scheduling. They canceled new routes after only a short time and did not let the routes mature with the customer base. The Vancouver to New York route is a very profitable route for Cathay Pacific. They use a Boeing 747-400 on this route daily. Harmony Airways, thinking this would be a great route for them to compete in, invested significant dollars setting this route up with an enormous advertising campaign. Cathay Pacific lowered their fares and the route became unprofitable quickly. The same scenario unfolded on their Oakland route. They then re-focused their attention on Hawaii. With Westjet placing two 737-800 on the same route, Harmony again could not compete. Except for their Toronto route, no destination was maintained for more than 7 months[2]. 171 seats on a plane with a maximum capacity of 235 put significant operating cost pressures on Harmony Airways.