TOP STORY
Spike in aviation accidents and incidents mirror cuts to oversight
DECISIONS
- Case Management Conference – Scheduling – The Commissioner of Competition v Vancouver Airport Authority, 2018 CACT 3
Rescheduling dates for redetermination - Grievance – Failure to Attend – Swissport Canada Inc. v Teamsters Local 419, 2018 CanLII 6256
Grievor failed to attend grievance hearing – Explanation for absence at hearing not reasonable and did not meet unforeseen matter of urgency test – Grievances dismissed
CIRB DECISIONS
- Complaints – Unfair Labour Practice – Swissport Canada Handling Inc., 2017 CIRB 863
Complaint of duty to bargain in good faith, violation of statutory freeze, interference with union’s representation of members and use of replacement workers to undermine union’s representational capacity – No labour relations purpose served by proceeding with complaints – Board exercised discretion not to inquire into the merits of the complaints - Application – Revocation of Rights – Lutchman, 2018 CIRB 865
Application to revoke certification rights of Teamsters – Representative vote ordered
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY DECISIONS
- Application – Aviation MH Inc. / MH Aviation Inc. – Determination No. A-2018-31
Pursuant to subsection 73(1) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended - Suspension – Global Air Charters Inc. – Order No. 2018-A-30
Licence No. 170005 – Licence reinstated effective February 23, 2018 - Suspension – Regency Air, LLC – Order No. 2018-A-32
Licence No. 070078 - Suspension – Cinco Air Charter, LLC – Order No. 2018-A-31
Licence No. 080097
TC/TSB NEWS
- Government of Canada marks National Aviation Day 2018
- New training simulator takes flight with government support
- TSB releases preliminary 2017 transportation occurrence statistics
- TSB releases investigation report into fatal February 2017 collision with terrain of a training aircraft near the Calgary/Springbank Airport, Alberta
- Canadian Airworthiness Directives
- Foreign Airworthiness Directives
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- CBAA: CBAA expects CRA to move quickly on BA tax policy following meeting with senior political staff
- COPA: Avgas update
UNION NEWS
- ACPA: Safer working conditions will attract more pilots
- ALPA: ALPA urges Transport Canada to take effective measures to protect the traveling public from drones
- UNIFOR: Swissport Vancouver reaches tentative agreement
AVIATION MEDIA
- Aircraft noise and air pollution over Montreal: citizens ask for an epidemiological study by the Public Health Department of Montréal
- Alberta Health Services faces lawsuits, judicial review over air ambulance contracts
- Commercial airplane incidents, accidents jump in 2017, Safety Board says
- Exchange Income Corporation to acquire Moncton Flight College
- Precision Aviation Group (PAG) and Honeywell Aerospace sign agreement
- Silicon Valley-style innovation clusters to include aviation companies
- TSB gathers information about fire on Air Canada Express plane
- Viking Air forms strategic alliance with Mahindra Aerospace
