TOP STORY
Rankin Inlet to host the northern-most flight school
DECISIONS
Compensation, missing luggage – Audette v. WestJet Airlines Ltd., 2024 BCCRT 38
Claim for compensation for missing luggage – applicant seeking $1,961.81 as compensation for lost luggage – WestJet claimed luggage, which was returned to applicant 23 days later, was only delayed – WestJet argued applicant was accordingly entitled only to compensation for damages arising from delay, and not to value of luggage contents – WestJet had already paid $338.19 to applicant and argued it owed no further amounts – reimbursement of value of luggage contents in the circumstance would overcompensate applicant – however, applicant not yet fully compensated for incidental expenses – WestJet ordered to pay applicant $311.63 for other essential purchases reasonably made in context of applicant’s missing luggage
Compensation, flight delay – Cowden v. Air Canada, 2024 BCCRT 34
Claim for compensation for international flight delay – first leg of applicants’ return flight delayed, causing them to arrive at final destination more than 14 hours later than scheduled – applicants seeking $2,000.00 as compensation for delay – Air Canada claimed delay was outside of its control – Air Canada argued it only had to provide alternative travel arrangements to applicants under Air Passenger Protection Regulations (APPR) – Air Canada met obligations to applicants under APPR – applicants not entitled to compensation
CIRB DECISIONS
- Bargaining unit order – WestJet, an Alberta Partnership – Order No. 11896-U
Application by WestJet, an Alberta Partnership (WestJet) seeking, amongst other things, a declaration that the sale of Sunwing Airlines Inc. (Sunwing) to WestJet constitutes a sale of business within the meaning of the Code – Board determined that a sale of business occurred – Board declined to review existing bargaining unit structure in relation to the sale of business declaration – WestJet declared the successor employer of Sunwing – International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers certified to be bargaining agent for unit comprising “all employees of WestJet, an Alberta Partnership at the Toronto-Lester B. Pearson International Airport carrying out aircraft maintenance and ground support functions, including aircraft maintenance engineer (AME) supervisors, interior technicians and ground support technicians, excluding administrative employees, clerical employees, those above the rank of supervisor, and those employees covered by Board order no. 11834-U”
CTA DECISIONS
- Suspension – Secure Air Charter, LLC – Order No.2024-A-S-3
License no. 190004 – license reinstated effective January 12, 2024 - Suspension – IXAIR – Order No. 2024-A-S-5
License no. 160053 – license reinstated effective January 16, 2024 - Suspension – White Horse World Wide, LLC c.o.b. TAG GLOBAL – Order No. 2024-A-S-7
License no. 220001
TC/TSB NEWS
- Airworthiness directives
- Minister of Transport announces airport improvements in Whitehorse
- Minister of Transport announces new appointments at Canadian Transportation Agency
- Minister Wilkinson announces over $6 million to unlock sustainable aviation fuel production in Manitoba
- Sustaining the Royal Canadian Air Force’s fleet of CH-146 Griffon helicopters
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- CBAA – CBAA Advocacy: Our industry, your voice – January 2024 issue
- CCAA – State of Aviation virtual 3-part event in February
UNION NEWS
- ALPA – Air Borealis pilots ratify first-ever collective agreement after more than three years of negotiations
- ALPA – WestJet Encore pilots file for conciliation
AIRPORT NEWS
- 2023 a record year for passenger travel at Charlottetown Airport
- Airport looking for diversion business
- Canada moved to seize Russian plane at Toronto Pearson airport in June, so why is it still there?
- Drone Delivery Canada announces multiple agreements for Edmonton International Airport project
- Flights being cancelled Jan. 17 at YXC
- Flights cancelled, delayed at Vancouver International Airport due to heavy snowfall
- Flight delays at Kelowna International Airport as winter weather impacts travel
- LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 787 diverted to Stephenville, Newfoundland (Canada), for medical emergency
- New owner enthusiastic about revitalizing Owen Sound airport
- Over 310K people flew through the Kamloops airport in 2023
- Passenger numbers gaining altitude after pandemic: WAA
- Person arrested onboard Air Canada flight at YVR Saturday
- Runway at Vancouver International Airport closes for hours after plane goes off taxiway
- Snowfall leads to delayed, cancelled flights in Victoria
- Video shows flooding inside Vancouver airport’s domestic terminal
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- Bell awarded contract to sustain RCAF CH-146 fleet
- eVTOL Insights is heading to Canada for its next industry conference
- Horizon Aircraft completes business combination with Pono Capital Three
- JetSetGo to purchase 50 Cavorite X7 hybrid eVTOLs from Horizon Aircraft
- New Horizon chief charts course for now-public Canadian air taxi start-up
- Quebec is still the only province without a helicopter ambulance system. What’s the hold up?
- Whitehorse airport building new helicopter operations facility
GENERAL AVIATION NEWS
- Air Canada will take 4 retired Alaska Airlines Airbus A320s
- Air cargo trends: Moving with the market
- B.C. woman injured after wheelchair request sues Air Canada, YVR
- Bearskin Airlines service to Fort Frances, Kenora, Dryden in Ontario to be discontinued in May
- Canadian Premier League and WestJet re-sign multi-year partnership
- Cargojet provides update on fleet strategy
- CIB partners with Axure Sustainable Fuels on SAF project development
- Flair Airlines achieves top ranking, saves Canadians $415M in 2023
- NAV CANADA reports December 2023 traffic figures
- Porter Airlines CEO sees potential path to IPO within five years
- WestJet begins recovery after cancelling 464 flights over four-day stretch due to extreme cold
- WestJet flight to Brandon aborted due to door alert
- Witnesses recall emergency plane landing as expert praises pilot