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ACPA and Air Canada (Personal Travel Privileges), Re, 2017 CarswellNat 3472
Grievance – Discriminatory Policy
Employee travel policy excludes those on leave of absence over 365 days – Union claims policy adversely impacts women, parents, and the disabled, who are protected groups under the Canadian Human Rights Act – Allowed, policy’s 365 day rule found to create differential treatment on the basis of sex and disability for pilots on medical and maternity leaves – Referred back to parties for discussions to resolve
DECISIONS
- Application – Security for Costs – Bahrain Executive Air Services Company (Bexair) WLL v. Bombardier Inc., 2017 QCCS 3538
Claim for $42,000,000 plus cancellation of purchase contract – Application to increase security for costs based on expert reports expense – Dismissed, rule of proportionality considered in amount of costs that could be potentially awarded - Passenger Claim – De Bellefeuille c. Sunwing Vacations inc., 2017 QCCQ 7566
Complaint for full reimbursement of cost for travel package due to various complaints over hotel, hotel guests and other issues – Sunwing offered $430 which passenger denied; Court awarded $500 for issues - Motion – Prospect of Success – Snowball v. Ornge, 2017 ONSC 4601
Action for negligent damages arising from the death of Ornge paramedic – Motion by Ornge regarding reasonable prospect of success and limitation issues – Reasonable prospect motion dismissed; limitation issues not addressed and further submissions can be made by the parties
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY DECISIONS
- Application – Anderson Air Ltd. – Order No. 2017-A-118
Exemptions from paragraphs 33.1(b) and 73(2)(c) and sections 33.2 and 103.3 of the Air Transportation Regulations, SOR/88-58, as amended - Application – Cathay Pacific Airways Limited – Determination No. A-2017-114
Pursuant to subsection 78(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended - Letter Decision – Air Transat A.T. Inc. c.o.b. as Air Transat – Letter Decision No. LET-A-47-2017
Regarding tarmac delay on July 31, 2017 - Suspension – Olympic Air, Inc. – Order No. 2017-A-119
Licence No. 980104
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- Canadian Airworthiness Directives
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- MMEL
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UNION NEWS
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- UCTE: Workers at Winnipeg Airport on strike
AVIATION MEDIA
- Aeronautics: Canada must avoid a subsidy race
- Airports authority seeks injunction against employees accused of picketing at private homes
- Air Canada flight forced to return to Pearson airport after engine trouble
- A message to the travelling public from Swissport Canada Inc.
- Air Transat welcomes the CTA inquiry
- Airport workers on strike at Pearson over health benefits
- Boeing provides real-time maintenance support to Air Canada’s entire fleet
- Canadian airlines’s profits soar on record passenger traffic
- Canada’s Flair Airlines eyes US market entry
- Cheap airline competition taking off as Frontier adds Calgary flights
- EU-Canada agreement on passenger name records
- Load controllers among hundreds striking at Pearson, putting airline safety up in the air
- NTSB data: Air Canada plane barely missed taxiing airliners
- Ottawa Airport assists Air Transat passengers
- Ottawa spends $150 million maintaining Pickering land it seized for an airport never built
- Pearson ground crew says strike caused significant baggage delays
- Pilot of Canada-bound plane loaded with cocaine pleads
- Statement by Karen McCrimmon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, on diversion and delay of Air Transat Flight TSC157 at the Ottawa International Airport
- Swissport says it’s coping with Pearson airport workers strike, union disagrees
- Talks between Swissport and striking workers at Pearson Airport stalled: Union
- Transportation agency demands answers after stranded airline passengers call 911
- Transport Canada quietly relaxes rules for recreational drone flyers
- ‘Unruly passenger’ arrested after Air Canada flight returns to Toronto
- WestJet makes Flex even more flexible
- WestJet says police are investigating after rewards program data released
- WestJet pushes ultra low cost carrier launch to summer 2018
- Winnipeg Airport strike enters second week
- Wouldn’t it be great if Canadians could actually ‘boycott’ an airline?: Robyn Urback
- ‘You can’t do this to us’: Fuming passengers stuck on planes for hours call 911
