DECISIONS
- Order – The Commissioner of Competition v Vancouver Airport Authority, 2017 CACT 4
Confidentiality Order - Grievance – Discipline – Thunder Bay International Airports Authority v Canada (Public Service Alliance), 2017 CanLII 14958
Grievor worked during driver’s license suspension without advising employer – Employer’s practice to provide leave without pay – Grievor received six-day suspension: three for days worked and paid instead of being on unpaid leave, and three disciplinary – Arbitrator agreed but directed personnel file to only show disciplinary portion of suspension - Appeal – Security clearance – Mohamed v. Canada (Attorney General), 2017 FC 271
Cancellation of security clearance of Customer Service Specialist – No procedural unfairness – Broad and unfettered discretion of Minister – Assessment of possibility to interfere with civil aviation – Dismissed - Passenger complaint – Singh c. Air India, 2017 QCCQ 2049
Passenger contested penalty and rebooking fees for new tickets after showing up late for check-in – No evidence that fees were contrary to airline conditions of carriage – Dismissed
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY DECISIONS
- Application – EPE SPA Air Algérie carrying on business as Air Algérie (Air Algérie) – Decision No. 54-A-2017
Pursuant to section 77 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c.10, as amended - Application – Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft (Lufthansa German Airlines) [Lufthansa], on behalf of itself and Lufthansa CityLine GmbH (CityLine) – Decision No. 56-A-2017
Pursuant to section 60 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c.10, as amended, and section 8.2 of the Air Transportation Regulations, SOR/88-58, as amended - Application – I.M.P. Group Limited carrying on business as, among others, Execaire, a Division of I.M.P. Group Limited (Licensee) – Order No. 2017-A-35
Exemptions from paragraphs 33.1(b) and 73(2)(c) and sections 33.2 and 103.3 of the Air Transportation Regulations, SOR/88-58, as amended - Suspension – Hudson Bay Helicopters Ltd. (Licensee) – Order No. 2017-A-34
Licence No. 980071 - Consumer complaint – Aymen Zammel against EPE SPA Air Algérie carrying on business as Air Algérie (Air Algérie) – Decision No. 55-C-A-2017
Flight delays – Merits of claim not demonstrated – Dismissed
TC/TSB NEWS
- TSB deploys a team of investigators to Pickle Lake, Ontario, to assess an occurrence involving a DC-3T aircraft
- TSB deploys a team of investigators to examine aircraft wreckage found near White River, Ontario
- TSB deploys a team of investigators to Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, following mid-air collision between two aircraft
UNION NEWS
- Teamsters: Air Inuit: New collective agreement after two years of talks
- Unifor: Unifor prepared to present final arguments to Ornge and Arbitrator Hodges
AVIATION MEDIA
- Statement from the National Airlines Council on today’s federal budget
- Air Canada comments on Federal Budget
- No decision made on sell-off of Canada’s airports: Finance Minister
- Airport privatization could hike costs and threaten security, Ambrose says
- Canada mulls joining U.S., Britain on electronics ban for flights
- What to know about the new airline electronics bans
- New self-service border kiosks launching at Ottawa airport; roll-out to continue across Canada this year
- Facial recognition coming in for a landing at Ottawa airport today
- ‘The plane was…like a Lego toy’; 1 dead as planes collide over mall near Montreal
- ‘Papa November Papa, are you listening?’: Air traffic control’s frantic message before Saint-Bruno crash
- Pilot missing after plane crash near Marathon
- ‘Ashamed’ Sunwing pilot pleads guilty to impaired charge
- Sunwing defends 6-hour break between flights for pilot who returned to duty drunk
- BA among airlines fined by European Commission for cargo ‘cartel’
- EVAS Air signs with global aviation leader Pratt & Whitney Canada
- Bombardier Business Aircraft Service Centres earn FAA Diamond Awards
- Bombardier’s C Series jet nears approval for London City airport
- Canada’s airports launch Gerry Bruno Scholarship for aviation business students
