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Flair Airlines rehires all laid-off employees and restores wages following federal subsidy
COVID-19 UPDATES
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DECISIONS
- Adjournment of monthly review – Air Canada v CUPE, Air Canada Component – 2020 CanLII 26172 (CA LA)
Monthly reviews are scheduled to mediate and arbitrate issues in dispute – March monthly review was adjourned on consent – Air Canada moves to adjourn April monthly review – Union opposes – COVID-19 disrupted employer’s operations – Union wished to adjudicate urgent matters (discharges, income insecurity) – adjournment granted – crisis makes work conditions and practical outcome of dispute resolution less impactful
CTA DECISIONS
- Application – Tampa Cargo S.A.S. c-o-b as Avianca Cargo – Determination No. A-2020-60
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act - Application – Cargojet Airways Ltd. also c-o-b as CargoJet Regional, on behalf of itself and 21 Air, LLC – Determination No. A-2020-59
Pursuant to section 60 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended (CTA), and section 8.2 of the Air Transportation Regulations - Application – Contour Helicopters Ltd. – Determination No. A-2020-57
Pursuant to subsection 73(1) of the Canada Transportation Act - Application – Contour Helicopters Ltd. – Determination No. A-2020-56
Pursuant to section 61 of the Canada Transportation Act - Application – Hainan Airlines Holding Co., Ltd – Determination No. A-2020-54
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act - Suspension – Central Air Southwest, Inc. – Determination No. A-2020-55
Licence No. 190026 - Suspension – Helicorp Services Inc. c-o-b as Hélicraft – Order No. 2020-A-46
Licence nos. 150019 and 150020
TC/TSB NEWS
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
ATAC
ATAC seeking aviation fuel excise tax relief
CBAA
CBAA 2020 convention and exhibit cancellation
Night recency exemption
ICAO
Benin becomes newest participant in CORSIA emissions offsetting programme
UNION ASSOCIATION NEWS
CUPE
Air Canada flight attendants’ union encouraged to see federal support for laid-off workers
UNIFOR 2002
Air Canada workers to receive income top-up, following union and employer negotiation
COVID-19: resources and EI information (rev. April 6)
AIRPORT NEWS
- ACAA: impact of COVID-19
- Coronavirus: international flights to stop Friday at YLW
- COVID-19: how airports prepare for the worst and plan to get back to their best
- COVID-19: the role of the airport operator in customer experience management
- Ottawa airport facing ‘devastating decline’ due to COVID-19
- Translators to be in place at YVR in time for new provincial travel rules
- Working for our communities, Canada’s airports deliver a critical service at a critical time
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- Alpha Unmanned Systems’ autonomous helicopters now flying multi-UAV missions
- Alphabet’s drone service delivers medicine during coronavirus pandemic
- Aviation job platform JSfirm.com sees increase in site traffic
- Bell launches MyBell customer portal enhancements
- Skylegs delivers new features for COVID-19 requirements to aircraft operators
AVIATION NEWS
- ‘Extremely painful’: passengers on repatriation flights from India describe disorganized booking process
- ‘It is urgent’: unions call on Ottawa to deliver immediate aid to ‘devastated’ WestJet
- Air Canada to apply for Canada’s wage subsidy program
- Boeing finds new software flaws on 737 Max
- CAE answers the federal government’s call to procure ventilators
- Canadian Transportation Agency says travel vouchers OK for cancelled flights as US, EU mandate refunds Social Sharing
- COVID-19 and aviation: survival, recovery, and innovation
- Flair Airlines announces rehiring of all employees at full salaries
- FLYHT reports fourth quarter and year end 2019 results
- Levaero Aviation implements procedures to combat COVID-19
- PEI’s aviation sector keeping busy despite drop in passenger service
- Prolonged flight ban could cut aircraft sales by about 10,000
- Supreme Court refuses to hear case concerning rights of air passengers with disabilities
- WestJet to re-hire roughly 6,400 employees
