TOP STORY
WestJet facing more union drives as CUPE, ALPA target airline’s regional carrier
DECISIONS
- Passenger Complaint – Failure to perform obligations – Gava c. Sunwing Airlines Voyages, 2017 QCCQ 10251
Claim for $6,000 for failing to provide all-inclusive hotel package as advertised – Multiple defects with hotel and facilities – Sunwing failed to appear – Granted $6,000 in damages - Appeal – Ongoing compensation – Decision No. 1862/17, 2017 ONWSIAT 2085
Aircraft catering employee injured while pushing galley carts – Failure to find underlying or pre-existing conditions – Allowed, ongoing entitlement found - Appeal – Chronic pain disability (CPD) – Decision No. 920/17, 2017 ONWSIAT 2032
Airline lounge supervisor suffered workplace injury and received NEL – Request for CPD entitlement – Early Intervention Assessment – Finding of CPD – Appeal allowed - Application – Right to commence – Decision No. 2619/17, 2017 ONWSIAT 2760
Worker at GTAA slipped and injured herself in employee cafeteria – Injured employee commenced civil action – Respondents in civil Claim commenced WSIA Application based on s.31 – Application allowed, WSIA removes right to commence civil Claim
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY DECISIONS
- Application – Premier Air, Inc. c.o.b. as Premier Private Jets – Order No. 2017-A-152
Exemption from subsection 84(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended - Application – Sept-Îles Aéro Service Inc. – Determination No. A-2017-143
Application for suspension of Licence No. 140087 - Suspension – Caris Air Services, LLC – Order No. 2017-A-151
Licence No. 150028 - Suspension – Air Liaison Inc. c.o.b. as Air Liaison – Order No. 2017-A-153
Licence No. 150070
TC/TSB NEWS
- Gusty winds and blowing snow led to April 2016 nose landing gear collapse at Gander International Airport
- Operating in icing conditions led to 2015 loss of control and collision with terrain near Pickle Lake, Ontario
- Transport Canada to conduct environmental sampling at the boundary of transferred airport properties
- MMEL
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- AFA: ‘Catastrophic’ lack of sleep in modern society is killing us, warns leading sleep scientist
- CAC: Canadian airports safety week underway at airports across Canada next week
- COPA: COPA participe au Colloque du Conseil des aéroports du Québec
- ICAO: In advance of World Tourism Day, ICAO and major aviation groups launch new joint report on economic benefits of air transport
- ICAO: ICAO Secretary General calls on UN Security Council for international support of the Global Aviation Security Plan
- OAC: Bombardier’s fourth Global 7000 flight test vehicle successfully completes its maiden flight
- OAC: Bombardier signs largest ever Q400 Turboprop order with SpiceJet for up to 50 aircraft
UNION NEWS
- ALPA: Wasaya 127 Investigation Report highlights need to address important safety risks
- IAMAW: Health and safety is a major concern for screeners!
- IAMAW: IAM outraged by decision to impose countervailing duties on sales of C Series
- UNIFOR: Massive Bombardier duties short sighted
- UNIFOR: A message from the Toronto Airport Workers Council: declaration of solidarity
AVIATION MEDIA
- A first in Canada – Americas aviation industry to gather at YQB
- Airlines rev up to offer discount airfares — but don’t be blinded by the price, say experts
- Boeing and Bombardier: a dispute that hurts the entire industry
- Bombardier expecting U.S. to impose a second ‘absurdly’ high duty
- Border control at Montréal-Trudeau – positive results for the summer of 2017
- Cathay Pacific opens applications for I Can Fly Toronto 2017
- Chorus Aviation delivers fourth CRJ1000 aircraft to Air Nostrum and completes acquisition of an Embraer 190 aircraft
- GTAA to consider new strategies to cut down on aircraft noise at Pearson
- Government of Canada investing in safety at Dawson Creek Regional Airport
- Government of Canada investing in safety at Peace River Airport
- JetBlue latest U.S. airline to side with Bombardier in trade dispute with Boeing
- Meet Swoop
- New training, procedures in place since fatal 2015 crash: Wasaya Airways
- New tower takes control at Waterloo Airport
- Northern airline operators threatened by ‘absurd’ Transport Canada rules, industry insiders say
- Ottawa Aviation Services coming to North Bay
- ‘People grabbed their seats’: United flight from Vancouver climbs to miss glider
- Police drag woman off Southwest Airlines flight
- RotorLink receives NQA global assurance certificate of registration
- ‘The war is far from over — and we shall win,’ Quebec premier says after Bombardier ruling
- Thunder Bay Airport announces major renovations
- U.S. set to rule on Boeing, Bombardier trade dispute: what you need to know
- U.S. imposing 220% duty on Bombardier CSeries planes
- YVR makes history with two big wins at World Routes conference
