Condor wraps another season of Yukon flights

German airline Condor took off from Whitehorse on Sunday, not to return until 2016.

The company has wrapped another season of bringing European tourists to Yukon. The airline offers a weekly direct flight between Frankfurt and Whitehorse through the summer.

"We have had quite a good season," says Jens Boyd, a director with Condor's parent company, the Thomas Cook Group.

"The peak is very, very strong for, let's say, the key six to eight weeks when it's really warm and really attractive to come."

Boyd says about 3,500 people took the direct flight to Whitehorse this year, and several hundred more took indirect flights, through Vancouver or other centres.

Condor is already selling tickets for next summer's flights. And Boyd says the airline and the Yukon government will kick-off the season with a celebration to mark the number of passengers brought to Yukon.

He says the airline and Yukon tourism partners are working to boost ticket sales at the beginning and the end of the season, when things tend to slow down.