December 27, 2016 – Drone operators: Stay off TC’s naughty list
DECISIONS
- Arbitration – Interpretation – Jazz Aviation LP v Canadian Flight Attendant Union (CFAU), 2016 CanLII 87715
Collective Agreement – Clause interpretation – Flight attendant subject to reassignment - Appeal – Indirect air service providers – Lukács v. Canada (Transportation Agency), 2016 FCA 314
Resellers – CTA determined not operating “air service” – CTA decision was reasonable and within its jurisdiction – Dismissed
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY DECISIONS
- Application – Shoreline Aviation, Inc. – Decision No. 372-A-2016
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c.10, as amende - Application – Air Canada also c.o.b. as Air Canada rouge and as Air Canada Cargo (Air Canada) – Decision No. 374-A-2016
Pursuant to section 77 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c.10, as amended - Suspension – Jet Source Charter, Inc. – Order No. 2016-A-216
Licence No. 000131 - Suspension – Western Airways, Inc. – Order No. 2016-A-217
Licence No. 100061
TC/TSB NEWS
- Canadian Transportation Agency launches consultation on Air Transportation – Phase 2 of its Regulatory Modernization Initiative
- Minister Garneau announces the certification of a new Bell Helicopter
- New reporting tool and initiatives improve drone safety
- Transport Canada’s drone safety initiatives
- Airworthiness Directive #1
- Airworthiness Directive #2
UNION NEWS
- AFA: Flight and fight: Attendants learn self-defense in the air
- CUPE: Sunwing’s flight attendants massively reject tentative agreement; CUPE Local 4055 bargaining committee will now seek a strike mandate
- UNIFOR: D-J Composites Inc. locks workers out days before Christmas
- UNIFOR: Members at ASP reject tentative agreement
AVIATION MEDIA
- Air Canada announces appointment of Lucie Guillemette as Chief Commercial Officer
- Brazil to challenge Canada at WTO over Bombardier funding
- Flair Air liable for passenger rights, not ticket reseller NewLeaf, judge says
- Halifax airport adds cargo space to keep up with lucrative lobster exports
- Manitoba airline increasing fleet to help overcome flight delays, cancellations
- MKO grand chief demands public apology from Perimeter after weeks of delayed, cancelled flights
- NewLeaf Travel makes inaugural flight out of Calgary
- New security training methods at Halifax airport ‘underhanded,’ says commissionaire
- Officials investigate U.S. air traffic incident with Air Canada plane headed to Toronto
- The trouble with Canadian airport privatization
- Up in the air: Will Canada’s newest air travel company take off?