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Kloshe Air (stylized in all caps as KLOSHE AIR or KLOSHE) is a Canadian regional leisure airline that operates scheduled year-round flights throughout Southern British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. KLOSHE mainly markets itself as a regional airline serving under-connected destinations for adventure, cultural, and geographical tourism in the Pacific Northwest.

Ownership and initial investment
Kloshe Air is owned by Singaporean Zhu family-owned Pertiama Tours PLC. Ltd. via. It’s a subsidiary of North Trail Holdings. Ong Seng Keong, the son of North Trail Holdings CEO Benjamin Zhu, is the founder and owner of the company. Both companies jointly financed around $90 million as startup funding for the airline in exchange for ownership rights and seven percent of gross profit from ticket sales.

In a 2022 interview with CBC News, Ong Seng Keong explained that he had no intention of listing Kloshe on the TSX Venture Exchange, saying that the airline “practices stakeholder capitalism, not shareholder capitalism. I started this airline because I had a passion and a goal to create a viable aviation service that people and employees can enjoy. I didn’t start it so that I could end up answering to a board of directors with my hands tied.”

Unionization
Kloshe Air is one of the few private airlines in Canada that allows its employees to unionize, publicly stating that it has a proactive and collaborative relationship with its union counterparts. The airline’s employees are part of Unifor. However, Kloshe consistently consults and coordinates with Unifor on any changes to employment before making a final decision. In 2022, the airline and local Unifor chapter representing Kloshe’s employees agreed to a 4.5 percent profit-sharing agreement.

Head office
Kloshe Air is headquartered out of the Canada Way Business Park in Burnaby, British Columbia, renting two office space units from the park.

History
Kloshe Air was established and registered in February 2022 in anticipation of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions being lifted within the following months to provide flights from Pitt Meadows to Osoyoos and Delta to Astoria. The airline began operations in April 2022 with a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 and passenger-configured Cessna SkyCourier.

With a spike in passenger traffic on both routes from within the first and second quarters of 2022, the airline announced that it was exploring possibilities of expanding its operations and fleet.

In August 2022, the airline procured a second Cessna SkyCourier to service its Pitt Meadows to Revelstoke route. Shortly after, however, CityNews 1130 reported that the airline already had preliminary plans to expand its fleet to a total of six Cessna SkyCouriers and three de Havilland Canada DHC-3-300 aircraft to serve a total of eight destinations in British Columbia, Washington state, and Oregon. When questioned about the plans by CityNews 1130, company president Ong Seng Keong said the plans were merely a preliminary proposal drawn up to serve as a long-term goal for the airline and that nothing was finalized.

In May 2023, Kloshe announced that they had reached agreements with Textron Financial to lease back five additional Cessna SkyCouriers and Chorus Aviation to lease back three DHC-6-300G aircraft to expand to seven new destinations long-term.

Fleet
{| class="wikitable" !Aircraft !In service !Passengers !Notes
 * Cessna SkyCourier || 6 || 19 ||
 * DHC-6 Classic 300-G || 3 || 19 ||
 * DHC-6 Classic 300-G || 3 || 19 ||
 * DHC-6 Classic 300-G || 3 || 19 ||