TOP STORY
WestJet leads domestic recovery with the addition of 11 new routes
CTA DECISIONS
- Suspension – Lawrence John Swanton & Christina Marian Swanton – Determination A-2021-46
License No. 110059
- Accessible Transportation Complaint – Naima Iskander against Compagnie Nationale Royal Air Maroc regarding her disability-related needs – Determination No. 21-AT-A-2021
Application filed pursuant to subsection 172(1) of the CTA, that there was an undue obstacle to the mobility of a person with a disability – Applicant alleged she did not receive wheelchair assistance for all of the flight segments operated by the Respondent – Agency found that applicant had encountered undue obstacles to her mobility – request for order for compensation denied, as no damages arising from lack of wheelchair access – order for Air Maroc to ensure the procedure it had subsequently implemented to set out a better level of wheelchair service to passengers with disabilities remains in effect and is applied by its personnel
- Application – Qantas Airways Limited – Determination No. A-2021-42
Application for a license to operate a non-scheduled international service to transport traffic on a charter basis between Australia and Canada – license issued, with conditions
- Suspension – Loon Haunt Enterprises Inc. c.o.b. Loon Haunt Air Service – Determination No. A-2021-43
License No. 972009
- Application – Les Investissements Nolinor Inc. c.o.b. Nolinor Aviation et/and Nolinor and as OWG – Determination No. A-2021-44
Application for a license to operate a scheduled international service, large aircraft in accordance with the Air Transport Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America signed on March 12, 2007 – license issued, with conditions
TC/TSB NEWS
- Airworthiness directives
- Fatal accident near Racine, Quebec, highlights risks of flying under visual flight rules in deteriorating weather at night
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- CBAA-ACAA – Minister Hajdu and Minister Blair interpretation of essential services
- COPA – Civil aviation medicine and epost Connect
- COPA – North Huron to sever 92 acres of land at Richard W. LeVan Airport
- COPA – TSB reports on fatal accident of Cessna 172M near Racine
- COPA – Waterloo Airport Runway Project, assessment funding available
- ICAO – ICAO approves new edition of its Testing and Cross-border Risk Management Measures Manual
- ICAO – ICAO Council concludes 222nd Session with important new progress for international aviation
UNION NEWS
- ALPA – Fearless aviaton Eileen Vollick blazed path to the skies for generations of female pilots in Canada
- CUPE – CUPE 4070 members ratify new contract with WestJet
- UNIFOR – A union for all as aviation, long-term care and grocery warehouse workers join Unifor
AIRPORT NEWS
- ACI World’s new sub-committee devoted to the non-aeronautical side of the airport business
- Air Canada eyes June return to empty Maritime airports
- Airports are focused on passengers amid plans for globally harmonized recovery
- Canada’s largest airport reports $383 million loss in 2020 due to pandemic
- Government must do more to support struggling regional airports
- Kelowna still ‘international’
- Pandemic’s dramatic impact on aviation endures but signs of recovery emerge
- Regina International to trial rapid COVID tests
- Time to look at the future with new eyes
- Two airports, $600 million in losses
- U.S. and Canadian airports could lose $44 billion in 2021 from COVID-19
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- DART Aerospace gets Transport Canada approval for night hover refill ops
- Leonardo’s Lynx helicopter marks 50 years since maiden flight
- Used helicopter market attains shaky hover
AVIATION NEWS
- After COVID-19, aviation faces a pilot shortage
- Air Canada adds triangle route between Regina, Montreal, Saskatoon
- Air Canada preparing for retrojet rollout
- ASG reports increased demand for recruiting
- Fatal accident near Racine, Quebec, highlights risks of flying under visual flight rules in deteriorating weather at night
- Green aviation initiatives in Canada brought to standstill: GARDN
- Nav Canada job cuts hitting Gander
- Opinion: Federal failure on airlines leaves entire industry in jeopardy
- The A220-300’s growing popularity
- WestJet and the Government of British Columbia partner to assist with vaccine clinics in Greater Vancouver
- WestJet leads domestic recovery with the addition of 11 new routes
- Westjet to restore its pre-COVID domestic destinations
