After a decade in the Vancouver business world, Bobby returns to his hometown of Yellowknife to find his late father's airline in trouble. The reunion with his dad's old partner, Mel Ivarson, is lukewarm but Bobby isn't home to reconnect with the Arctic Air family. He's here to ink a lucrative mining deal with an old friend, Jim McAllister. Unfortunately, Bobby's only the middleman and slimy Calgary businessman, Ronnie Dearman, stands to walk away with all the profits. Meanwhile, the stress of his struggling airline lands Mel in the emergency room. His daughter Krista begs him to take some down time, but Mel has an airline to run. He cuts the recovery short and books himself in the pilot's seat of the next flight. Bobby and Krista reignite an old and unspoken attraction, but when they hear that one of Mel's passengers is in labour and bad weather has forced an emergency landing, the two of them abandon a client to embark on an increasingly desperate search-and-rescue mission.
Season 1 Episode 1 of Arctic Air resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
ARCTIC AIR is a one-hour adventure series set in the booming Arctic, about a maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. On the ground, Bobby, the headstrong business partner, struggles to save the airline from crashing financially while Mel, the cantankerous co-owner, keeps his crew of pilots in the air. Caught in the crossfire is Mel's hotshot pilot daughter Krista.
Over the season this character-based drama will deliver hard-hitting emotional stories - from the romantic entanglement of Bobby and Krista, to the conflicts that spark between Bobby and his competitors, his business partners and even his extended family. There's a new gold rush heating up under the permafrost, and there are new fortunes of diamonds and oil to claim.