April 27, 2018 – Court Upholds Manager Finding: S.240 Complaint Dismissed
TOP STORY
Cicale v. Swiss International Air Lines Ltd., 2018 FC 389
Judicial Review – Constructive Dismissal – Adjudicator concluded applicant was a “manager” therefore not covered under CLC – Finding of adjudicator was reasonable – Not the place for Court to question credibility and documentary findings only examine reasonableness of outcome – Application dismissed (Lower Decision: Cicale and Swiss International Air Lines Ltd., Re, 2017 CarswellNat 1428)
DECISIONS
- Motion – Amended Response – The Commissioner of Competition v. Vancouver Airport Authority, 2018 CACT 9
YVR motion to file Amended Response – Will not create delay – Allowed
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY DECISIONS
- Application – EgyptAir – Determination No. A-2018-79
Pursuant to subsection 78(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C. 1996, c. 10, as amended
- Application – Atlas Air, Inc. – Order No. 2018-A-67
Exemption from provisions of Part III of the Air Transport Regulations, SOR/88-58, as amended
- Application – Soutwest Aircraft Charter L.C. c.o.b. Southwest Aircraft Charter – Determination No. A-2018-77
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C. 1996, c. 10, as amended
- Suspension – “Aeronaves TSM”, S.A. de C.V. c.o.b. as Aeronaves TSM – Order No. 2018-A-66
License No. 160014
- Suspension – ATI Jet, Inc. c.o.b. as ATI Jet Executive Charter – Order No. 2018-A-68
License No. 040112 – License reinstated April 20, 2018
- Suspension – Scott Richard Aviation Services, Inc. – Order No. 2018-A-64
License No. 040066 – License reinstated April 18, 2018
- Suspension – Storm Flying Service, Inc. – Order No. 2018-A-65
License No. 967683 – License reinstated April 20, 2018
TC/TSB NEWS
- TSB deployed investigator to a landing incident at the Pitt Meadows Airport, British Columbia
- Foreign Airworthiness Directives
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- CAC: Canada’s airports: a $48 billion economic footprint
- CCAA: CCAA releases 2018 labour market information report for aviation & aerospace
- COPA: COPA AGM to be live streamed
- COPA: Prop exemption followup
- COPA: General Aviation Safety Campaign web site
- COPA: Avgas flowing again
- ICAO: New airport monument celebrates Montreal’s status as world capital of civil aviation
UNION NEWS
- ALPA: WestJet pilots receive $2 million grant to aid in reaching first contract
- ALPA: Statement on the Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 accident
- APA: Statement on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
- IAMAW: Contract flip nets IAM voluntary recognition and new members!
- IAMAW: IAM anti-airport privatization petition introduced in Parliament!
- Unifor: Unifor delegates talk aerospace with MPs on Parliament Hill
AVIATION MEDIA
- 1 dead after Southwest Airlines jet with damaged engine makes emergency landing
- A look at safety aboard Boeing 737-700 jets
- ‘A nightmare’: Sunwing apologizes for 29-hour flight delay from Mexico
- Air Canada launches innovative biofuel project at Pearson Airport
- Air Canada supports aerospace mergers if benefits of competition remain alive
- Airline trawls Yellowknife for pilots as shortage looms
- Arbitration decision between NAV CANADA and UNIFOR Local 1016
- Aspiring pilots face wait lists as applications soar
- Australia says dropped phones on airplanes are a fire risk. Transport Canada does not
- Canada WestJet CEO aims to reach first pilots’ contract in 2018
- Canadian airline profits will fall in 2018 on higher costs: Conference Board
- CAE further expands its pilot training capacity in the Americas
- CCAA seeks national strategy for labour shortage
- Federal government postpones study of airport privatization
- Feds back ‘the next big idea’ in helicopter technologies
- Flair Airlines’ expansion called ‘shot across the bow of WestJet’
- Give Hope Wings smashes fundraising goal
- Is a major change coming to Pearson Airport in Mississauga?
- Kanata company developing space technologies to further space exploration and support middle-class jobs
- Laval man who disrupted Sunwing flight to Cuba ordered to pay airline $17K
- NATO Flying Training in Canada program makes history
- No drone zones in most of the Comox Valley
- Our EcoDesign on the C Series wins prestigious award!
- Pacific Flying Club joins Air Georgian’s SOAR Program
- Passenger records WestJet luggage being thrown against aircraft door at Calgary International Airport
- Scheduled air service at Muskoka Airport indefinitely delayed by Bill C49
- Senate changes rail-ownership law to focus on farmers, shippers and airline passengers
- Transwest Air founder takes over as West Wind chief executive
- TSB investigating after 2 private jets crash on the ground at Winnipeg Airport
- Vancouver International Airport scares record number of birds from runways
- Wasaya Airways partners with Winnipeg company for partial ownership
- Yusuf Ahmed, 20-year-old Ontario student, helped push Government to fix No-Fly List