Northwestern Air (J3) flights & route network
18 routes · 8 destinations · 5 hub airports across 1 country.
Figures computed from the public OpenFlights datasetData source: OpenFlights routes.dat
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Northwestern Air hub airports
Airports ranked by the number of Northwestern Air routes originating from each IATA code. A higher count indicates a stronger hub — more nonstop destinations available from that airport.
Routes operated by J3
Showing the 18 longest Northwestern Air routes parsed from the OpenFlights routes dataset. Click any route for live fare comparison.
J3 route network
Every figure below is computed live from the OpenFlights routes dataset at the time of page render. No prices, no fabricated carrier names — only the airline codes stored verbatim in thedirectCarriersJSON field on each FlightRoute row.
All countries served by J3
Ranked by the number of Northwestern Air routes arriving in each destination country. The leading market is where the airline concentrates most of its international capacity.
About flying with Northwestern Air
Northwestern Air (J3) operates 18 scheduled flight routes parsed from the OpenFlights public routes dataset.
From its primary hub at YSM (Fort Smith, Canada) the airline flies 4 nonstop routes, with 4 additional airports serving as regional connection points across the network.
The longest nonstop route operated by Northwestern Air is Edmonton (YEG) to Hay River (YHY), covering 527 great-circle miles and averaging about 45m of flight time. Its shortest scheduled route — Fort Chipewyan (YPY) to Fort Smith (YSM) — covers just 92 miles.
Across the full network, Northwestern Air serves 1 country; the most-served destination market is Canada with 18 inbound routes.
How to find the best Northwestern Air fares
Booking out of YSM is usually the strongest fare play: Northwestern Air concentrates 4 of its routess from Fort Smith, and higher route density at a hub means more head-to-head competition — both from other Northwestern Air departures and from rival carriers serving overlapping city pairs. Use the Kayak search box above with origin set to YSM to see the airline's full departure board at a glance.
All route, hub, destination and country figures are computed directly from the OpenFlights public-domain routes dataset(openflights.org/data.php)— specifically the directCarriers JSON field on every FlightRoute row, where each airline code (e.g. J3) is parsed from the OpenFlightsroutes.dat airline identifier column. Carrier names come from the companion OpenFlights airlines.dat dataset. No prices or fare estimates appear on this page — those values fluctuate continuously across 100+ booking sites and are fetched live via Kayak at search time.