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Airline execs double down on refund refusal amid parliamentary grilling
DECISIONS
- Appeal – Healthcare benefits – Loss of Earnings – Decision No. 411/20, 2020 ONWSIAT 951
Station Attendant for airline sustained lower back injury at work – entitled to acupuncture treatments – not entitled to reimbursement of TENS unit purchased after declared pain free – partial entitlement to Loss of Earnings based on refusal to accept suitable work – appeal allowed in part - Appeal – Employer classification – Decision No. 310/20, 2020 ONWSIAT 961
Employer reclassified by Board from scientific and technical services to non-scheduled specialty air transport – essential activity related to collection, processing, analyzing and interpretation of geophysical data – aviation only a tool for collection of data – pilots were independent contractors, not employees – appeal allowed - Appeal – Noise Induced Hearing Loss – Decision No. 401/20, 2020 ONWSIAT 962
Worker in airline industry made a claim for work-related Noise-Induced Hearing Loss – two audiograms performed a year apart with different methodology, reporting and results – determination on reliability of audiograms – appeal denied
CTA DECISIONS
- Application – Air Canada, also c.o.b. as Air Canada Rouge and as Air Canada Cargo – Order No. 2020-A-105
Pursuant to subsection 80(1) of the Canada Transportation Act, SC 1996, c 10, for a permanent exemption from the advance notice requirements of section 64 of the CTA - Application – Copenhagen AirTaxi A/S – Determination No. A-2020-119
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, SC 1996, c 10 - Suspension – Sunrise Helicopters Inc. – Order No. 2020-A-104
Licence Nos. 090067 and 100090 - Suspension – Eldorado Air, LLC – Order No. 2020-A-103
Licence No. 100001 – reinstated effective June 23, 2020 - Suspension – Clifford S. Kamm c.o.b. as SeaWind Aviation – Order No. 2020-A-102
Licence No. 040048
TC/TSB NEWS
- New Accessible Transportation for Persons with Disabilities Regulations now in force
- Canadian Airworthiness Directives
- Foreign Airworthiness Directives
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
CBAA
- Optimism for the future of BA and Rolland Vincent’s Business Aviation Outlook
- CBAA’s WhatsApp account connects business aviation operators in real time
- Business Aviation Outlook: Turning the corner on COVID 19
CCAA
COPA
ICAO
UCTE
AIRPORT NEWS
- Atlantic Canada’s airports fully support Atlantic region travel bubble lift off
- COVID-19: A message from Martin Eurnekian, Chair of the ACI World Governing Board
- COVID-19: The unintended impacts of slot waivers
- EU suspends probe into Air Canada-Transat deal pending more data
- Four-point COVID-19 recovery plan identified for Edmonton International Airport
- Toronto Pearson launches Healthy Airport program featuring innovative partnership with BlueDot
- Travel with Confidence – New health measures at YUL Montréal-Trudeau International Airport
- Winnipeg Airports Authority lays off 25 per cent of staff as air travel drops
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- Fly-by-wire helicopter, military pilot had ‘conflict’ before fatal crash
- HAI International spotlight: Valhalla Helicopters, Canada
- Operational pause of CH-148 Cyclone fleet lifted
- Talon Helicopters AS365 Dauphin ready to fight fires at night
AVIATION NEWS
- Air Canada offers refunds to some passengers with cancelled flights
- Bombardier celebrates entry-into-service of spacious, long-range Global 5500 business jet
- Canada needs a more strategic, region-based approach to reopening the border
- Canada will not reopen borders quickly, Trudeau tells anxious airlines
- Corporate Knights annual ranking for 2020 – The only company in its industry in the ranking, Transat is in the top 20 of Canada’s best corporate citizens
- Cyclone returns to service for first time since deadly crash
- Feds investigated some coronavirus dangers on airplanes without speaking to airline workers: union
- Few flights and high prices burst northern travel bubble for some
- Flight safety investigation report released for towing accident involving PM’s CC-150 Polaris
- Global airlines leverage AI, machine learning and blockchain to save costs and generate new revenues, says Frost & Sullivan
- IATA proposes alternatives to quarantine
- Is this double-decker seat the future of airplane travel?
- New ARGUS study outlines COVID-19 impact on business aviation
- Pilot landing at Lethbridge airport temporarily blinded by laser pointer
- Public health trumps airline and tourism industry, Trudeau says, after outcry over travel restrictions
- Transport Canada investigating after helicopter lands on Tofino Beach
- U.S. pilots union asks government to subsidize empty seats on planes
- Watchdog says flight refund rules may need reworking to address possible ‘gaps’
- WestJet announces organizational changes to secure its future
- WestJet retreats on labour code exemption that would facilitate mass layoffs