TOP STORY
Guest smoking, not wearing mask, forces WestJet flight to land in Winnipeg on weekend
DECISIONS
- Transportation Security Clearance – Jackson v. Canada (Attorney General), 2020 FC 685
Employee denied Transportation Security Clearance and consequently administratively discharged of her position at airport – applied for judicial review of Minister’s decision – seeking stay of Minister’s decision pending decision in judicial review proceedings – no evidence that stay would reinstate employee – ordered judicial review application to be considered urgent matter under Updated Practice Direction and Order (COVID-19)
CIRB DECISIONS
- Bargaining Certificate – Envoy Air Inc. – Order No.: 11515-U
Application for certification – IAMAW – all ramp agents and groomers working at the Dorval–Trudeau airport, excluding office staff, supervisors and those above the rank of supervisor
CTA DECISIONS
- Application – Niagara Falls Air Tours Inc. – Determination No. A-2020-118
Pursuant to section 61 of the Canada Transportation Act, SC 1996, c 10 - Application – WestJet – Determination No. A-2020-116
Pursuant to subsection 78(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10 - Application – Middle East Airlines Airliban S.A.L. – Determination No. A-2020-117
Pursuant to subsection 78(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10 - Suspension – Clifford S. Kamm c.o.b. as SeaWind Aviation – Order No. 2020-A-102
Licence No. 040048 - Suspension – Paradigm Jet Management, Inc. – Order No. 2020-A-101
Licence No. 190017
TC/TSB NEWS
- Backgrounder – Temperature screening for air travel
- Minister Garneau announces reappointments in the transportation sector
- Minister of Transport’s motion in the House of Commons on Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752
- TSB deploys an investigator to Saint-Fulgence, Quebec, following a small aircraft accident
- TSB deploys a team of investigators to the site of a mid-air collision near Constance Bay, Ontario
- Update to: COVID-19: Guidance material for air operators managing travellers during the check-in procedure for flights departing from an aerodrome in Canada
- Update to: COVID-19: Guidance material for air operators managing travellers during the check-in procedure at transborder (U.S.) airports
- Update to: COVID-19: Guidance material for air operators managing travellers during the check-in procedure at international airports
- Update to: Interim Order respecting certain requirements for civil aviation due to COVID-19
- Foreign Airworthiness Directives
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
CBAA
COPA
- Air North completes move to North
- Feds, NWT aid local operators
- Medical certificate exemptions broadened
ICAO
UNION ASSOCIATION NEWS
ALPA
IAMAW
- Letter to Justin Trudeau: The survival of the aerospace sector compromised; you must act
- IAM Canada encouraged by CERB extension
- Lowering the temperature at Canadian airports
UNIFOR 2002
AIRPORT NEWS
- Building confidence in air travel requires national standards and an international perspective
- COVID-19: A new era for slot allocation policy beyond the crisis
- COVID-19: The pandemic’s impact on airport business planning
- COVID-19 and operational management
- Corporate climate resilience in aviation: Transitioning to a new normal
- Financial relief and evidence-based policies needed for restart and recovery
- It’s Time to Travel: The Canadian Travel and Tourism Roundtable
- Red Deer Regional Airport adopts drone technology
- Stanford appointed new president of the Atlantic Canada Airports Association
- YVR Business Blog Series – Innovative travel solutions with Chris Gilliland
- YVR launches industry-leading health and safety campaign with YVR TAKEcare
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- $100,000 for heliport in Fort Frances announced by Minister Rickford
- Cyclone fleet back in the air as crews undergo training
- HAI introduces Covid Clean Program for members
- RCMP drone was flying at wrong altitude when it collided with helicopter in B.C.
AVIATION NEWS
- 2 planes collide in mid-air near Constance Bay
- A Canadian fix for Calgary weather: WestJet protects planes from hail with hockey boards
- Aimia prevails over Air Canada on injunction application transaction with Kognitiv now closed
- Air Canada CFO urges looser restrictions as border closed into July
- Air Canada Vacations eliminates expiry dates for future travel credits
- Air force returning Cyclone choppers to service soon as investigation focuses on flight software
- Bizav leaders compare notes during CBAA meeting
- Business aviation analysts predict v-shaped recovery after sharp drop
- Canada’s airlines ease into expanded summer service with added safety protocols
- Canadian military knew in 2016 Snowbirds ejection seats needed upgrading but project still only in early stages
- Cyclone crash was caused by ‘conflict’ between pilot, helicopter: DND
- De Havilland flight operations go digital with Cirro
- Environmentalists, farmers renew push to shelve Pickering airport, save prime farmland
- Flair Airlines under fire for making customers in Canada pay $49 for physical distancing
- NAV CANADA reports May traffic figures
- New funding for 10 N.W.T. aviation operators to support vital supply chain to communities
- NOTICE – Flair Airlines USA routes proposed class action discontinued
- Phase 2 of N.W.T.’s reopening plan in effect, Nunavut travel bubble created
- Pivot Airlines launches during pandemic
- Ratings agency downgrades Air Canada over expected slow recovery for international travel
- RBC, Brookfield CEOs join push against Trudeau’s travel rules
- Sask. Government selling Executive Air facilities at Regina International Airport
- Stephenville council approves cash for private company to manage airport
- Swoop seeks airport partners to lead economic recovery
- Textron to cut jobs, stop making flight simulators at Montreal plant
- Transport Minister Marc Garneau defends decision not to force airlines to offer COVID-19 refunds
- WestJet joins airline and tourism businesses in calling for government to encourage travel
- WestJet releases July schedule to get Canadians exploring again
- What pilots do when a pandemic grounds half the world’s planes
