The times they are a-changing, and so are flights.

Harbour Air is offering daily flights between downtown Vancouver and Nanaimo as well as Nanaimo and Sechelt to support essential travel for communities limited options.

"We have opened up this service to support our front line workers and essential travel," Harbour Air Group CEO Greg McDougall said in a release. "If you do not need to travel, please stay home."

Flights will be completed using the company's larger DeHavilland Otter aircraft and available seating will be reduced to 40 percent to accommodate physical distancing.

Other measures include all ground and flight crew having their temperature checked upon arriving and departing at the workplace; denying boarding to passengers who may be unfit to travel, and executing stringent cleaning and sanitation protocols.

Full details are here. 

Meanwhile, Air Canada has reconfigured passenger cabins on three Aircraft to transport vital supplies and necessary cargo. 

Three Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, the largest in the company's fleet, are being modified to double cargo capacity. The reconfigured aircraft can carry 89.63 tonnes, the equivalent of up to 9 million medical masks.

Twenty all-cargo flights are being planned weekly.

"Bringing critical medical and other vital supplies rapidly to Canada and helping distribute them across the country is imperative to combating the COVID-19 crisis," Tim Strauss, vice president – cargo at Air Canada said in a statement. 

The three Boeing 777-300ER aircraft are being converted by Avianor, an aircraft maintenance and cabin integration specialist, at its Montreal-Mirabel facility. 

Avianor developed an engineering solution to remove 422 passenger seats and designate cargo loading zones for light-weight boxes containing medical equipment and restrained with cargo nets. All operations have been certified and approved by Transport Canada.

The aircraft on these flights carry no passengers but move in their baggage holds time-sensitive shipments, including urgent medical supplies, and goods to support the global economy.

More info is here.