September 5, 2020 – Passengers fined for failure to wear face coverings during flight
TOP STORY
Transport Canada fines two individuals for failing to follow direction from the flight crew to wear face coverings during flight
COVID-19 UPDATES
CTA DECISIONS
- Suspension – Northern Air Transport, Inc cob SelectJet – Order No. 2020-A-142
License No. 977086, reinstated effective September 3, 2020 - Application – Nichols Outfitting Inc. – Determination No. A-2020-155
Application for suspension granted pursuant to paragraph 63(2)(b) - Application – TAG Aviation San Marino S.r.l – Determination No. A-2020-156
License issued to operate a non-scheduled international service to transport on a charter basis between Italy and Canada – license subject to prescribed conditions - Suspension – EJ Aviation Ltd. – Order No. 2020-A-141
License No. 962023
TC/TSB NEWS
- Airworthiness directives
- Aircraft/fuel truck collision highlights importance of following safety directives during emergencies
- Inadvertent movement of fuel levers lead to engine power loss in June 2019 accident on Eabamet Lake, Ontario
- Investigation report: February 2020 collision with power lines of a small aircraft in Les Cèdres, Quebec
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- COPA – Cessna collides with powerlines, no survivors – TSB Report
- COPA – Improper disinfectant products damage aircraft
- COPA – Mission to recover long-lost pilot launched
- COPA – Multiple findings in TSB Report on DC-3 crash
- COPA – Where to fly – East: Stanley, Nova Scotia
- ICAO – ICAO, UNOCT, conclude important agreement to curb terrorist mobility through the global exchange of API-PNR data
- ICAO – ICAO, UPU, urge national commitments and support for postal, air cargo, and express mail operators
- ICAO – ICAO Secretary General addresses UN global counter-terrorism company on aviation and pandemic responses
UNION NEWS
AIRPORT NEWS
- ACI analysis shows vanishing traffic, collapsing revenues, and rising risk
- ACI urges strong and coordinated government action to support recovery
- ACI World data shows COVID-19’s dramatic effect on international air traffic
- Air Canada starts COVID-19 testing at Toronto airport in push to lift travel restrictions
- Airlines look to introduce COVID-19 testing at airports with hopes of ending strict quarantine measures
- Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport announces launch of Safe Travels Program
- COVID-19: Rising financial risks in the airport industry
- Federal government must step up to save Atlantic air transport
- Media invited to new COVID-19 initiative at Toronto Pearson
- New Airport Service Quality award introduced in response to COVID-19
- Passengers should expect changes at Windsor International Airport when flights resume
- Physical distancing measures in airports – taking steps in the right direction
- Struggling airports implore Trudeau to help hardest-hit sectors
- WestJet, Vancouver airport launch pilot project to test passengers for COVID-19
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- Drones now have an enemy: the counter-drone
- RCMP find massive illegal grow operation in rural B.C. during unrelated aerial operation
- Woman plucked from British Columbia mountain with a helicopter
AVIATION NEWS
- 100 Jazz Aviation employees laid off at Halifax maintenance site due to COVID-19
- Air Canada’s cancellation of regional flights will gut remote communities
- Airlines face uphill climb to replace quarantines with COVID-19 testing in Canada
- Air Transat says many customers won’t see refunds until January
- Associations adapt for an uncertain future
- De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 Turboprop becomes first regional aircraft recertified to meet ICAO’s most stringent noise standards
- ‘ESCALATING THE PANIC’: Passengers threatened crew after Toronto plane crash, safety board says
- IATA top doctor says airlines can’t afford to wait for vaccine
- McMaster HealthLabs, Air Canada and Greater Toronto Airports Authority to conduct a voluntary COVID-19 study of arriving international travellers
- Missing the 6th element: crew decision-making
- NAV CANADA restores nighttime service across the country
- Nearly 1,000 flights in Canada have carried COVID-positive passengers since February
- No Max 8 aircraft in Canadian skies until all safety concerns addressed: Garneau
- Pacific Coastal Airlines resumes non-stop Victoria-Prince George service
- Surge in airline complaints to national regulator creates delays, backlog
- Transport Canada concludes Boeing 737 Max testing
- WestJet concerned third-party charges undermining Canada’s economic recovery