Lynx Air scores 3.5 out of 10: the plain average of the measures below, rounded to one decimal. Each measure is an editorial assessment of the published facts.
What to watch
- Ceased operations February 26, 2024; no longer flying
- No on-time figure confirmed from any named body
- Pet in cabin costs $59 one way
- À la carte pricing; seat and bag fees unconfirmed
The editorial take
- Strongest on
- Reliability: a single-type fleet of 9 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
- Held back by
- No on-time figure from a named body, and it ceased operations.
- Which cabin
- No cabin names or seat pitch confirmed; the carrier no longer flies.
4 measures, scored the same way for every airline we ticket.
Reliability & operations4/10
Lynx ran a single-type fleet of 9 leased Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, each listed with 189 seats. No on-time figure from a named measurement body was confirmed, and that missing punctuality record holds the score down. The airline ceased operations at 12:01 AM MT on February 26, 2024, so it no longer flies.
Sources: Wikipedia: Lynx Air
Comfort & experience3/10
No cabin names, seat pitch or seat width were confirmed, so there is no published figure to score against. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is listed with 189 passenger seats, and Lynx used à la carte pricing, so extras were paid separately. Wi-Fi, meals and power ports are unconfirmed.
Value & network4/10
Lynx used à la carte pricing, where passengers paid separately for the services they chose. The only published fee is $59 one way for a cat or small dog in cabin. Baggage allowances, seat fees and any loyalty programme are unconfirmed, so total trip cost cannot be judged from what we have.
Sources: Lynx Air news release: Lynx Air welcomes pets aboard flights (June 23, 2022)
Professional airline rating3/10
No star rating, awards or named rating body were confirmed for Lynx Air, so there is nothing to quote at four stars or above. What is confirmed is scale: about 2% of Canada's domestic market and 500 employees at shutdown, per Transport Canada. That is context, not a quality rating.
The published ratings and awards behind this score, each from the body that issued it.
What else can cost you
- Pet in cabin (cat or small dog)
- $59 one way
Charges are set and collected by Lynx Air, not by Laters.com, and vary by route and fare type.
How the score is built
- 4 measures, each scored out of 10
- The headline is the plain average of those measures, computed in the open
- Each measure is an editorial assessment based on the published facts and sources in the breakdown
- No airline pays to be rated, and no placement is sold
What we deliberately left out
- Safety. It is not a marketing metric and we will not rank carriers on it.
- Cancellation rate and fleet age. Omitted rather than estimated, until a sourced field exists for every airline.
- Any sub-metric we cannot attribute. An unsourced measure is dropped, not guessed.
- Blended third-party scores that mix in inputs we have already rejected elsewhere on this page.
The full method, measure by measure, is on how we score airlines.




