September 12, 2020 – WestJet says it cancelled a Calgary to Toronto flight because passengers refused to comply with mask policy
TOP STORY
Airline cancels flight due to passengers’ refusal to comply with mask policy
CTA DECISIONS
- Suspension – Moser Aviation, LLC – Order No. 2020-A-144
License No. 120036 - Application – Elevation Helicopters Ltd – Determination No. A-2020-158
Application for license to operate a domestic service, small aircraft – license issued pursuant to section 61 of the Canada Transportation Act.
TC/TSB NEWS
- Airworthiness directives
- DASH 8-400 (Q400) forward cowl door departure from the aircraft on take-off – Civil Aviation Safety Alert No. 2020-08
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- ATAC – ATAC announces the departure of Darren Buss
- COPA – Canadian drone company announces milestone
- COPA – Poor fuel truck design and weather cited in Dash-8 collision report – TSB
- COPA – RCAF pilot shortage less acute thanks to COVID
- ICAO – Massive turnout as aviation and environmental stakeholders take stock of upcoming potential for CO2 emissions reduction
UNION NEWS
- UNIFOR 2002 – Challenge the idea, not the person
AIRPORT NEWS
- COVID-19: People risk in the airport industry
- COVID-19: Tailoring airport charges to support the economic recovery of airports
- Darkening Skies: Canada’s airports now expect cumulative revenue losses of $4.5 billion by the end of 2021
- Vancouver airport upgrades stop as air travel declines because of COVID-19
- Winnipeg airport projects $45-million deficit this year, calls for government help
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- FlightSafety selected to provide aircrew training services for the TH-73A
- Low-flying helicopter used to smuggle illegal cannabis from Canada to U.S., police say
AVIATION NEWS
- Air Canada’s cancellation of regional flights will gut remote communities
- A220 operators told to protect avionics against rainfall
- Boeing 787 plan deliveries to be delayed after production flaw found during inspection
- Bombardier’s thought-provoking safety standdown 2020 going virtual, shines light on elevating safety through keen focus, new practices
- Canada to conduct COVID-19 study of arriving international travelers
- CAPA – COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on Canadian aviation
- Coping with COVID: The RCAF adjusts to the new world
- Cracking open a ‘treasure trove’ of aviation history in northwestern Canada
- Here’s what each small airline gets from $20M funding to service remote N.W.T. communities
- GNWT, Ottawa giving over $20M to NWT air operators
- Pilot airlifted to hospital after plane crash in Hants County
- Pilot-desperate air force sees nine aviators rejoin amid COVID-19
- Test flights for redesigned Boeing 737 MAX begin in Vancouver
- Transport Canada extends approvals for De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Simplified Package Freighters
- Transporting one single dose of COVID-19 vaccine could take up to 8,000 jumbo planes, says aviation body
- Why transatlantic return matters so much to airlines