TOP STORY
Volatus Aerospace bags license for drone cargo services in Canada
CTA DECISIONS
- Application – Volatus Aerospace Corp. – Determination No. A-2023-28
Application for license to operate a domestic service, all-cargo aircraft – application for the commercial operation of an air service using drones for the carriage of cargo – license issued
- Application – Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited – Determination No. A-2023-29
Application for extra-bilateral authority to permit Biman to carry fifth freedom cargo traffic between Toronto, Canada and Istanbul, Turkey, on its scheduled international flight between Canada and Bangladesh on February 15, 2023 – Condition No. 2 of Birman’s license varied to the extent necessary to grant the required authority
TC/TSB NEWS
- Airworthiness directives
- British Columbia Institute of Technology receives over $14.5 million in funding to support aerospace and life sciences training
- Interim Order Respecting Certain Requirements for Civil Aviation Due to COVID-19, No. 77
- Investigation report: 2022 collision with terrain at Qualicum Beach Airport, British Columbia
- Investigation report: 2022 fatal collision with terrain near Westport, Ontario
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- CBAA – Notes from CBAA’s Meeting with Transport Canada – January 31, 2023
- COPA – Government of Quebec provides funding of $300,000 for Mont-Tremblant Airport
- COPA – Huronia Airport annual ski fly-in lands public interest
UNION NEWS
- ALPA – WestJet Airlines pilots file for conciliation
- Unifor2022 – Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) members reject wage contract extension
- Unifor2002 – Unifor reaches new tentative agreement with SkyLink Express
AIRPORT NEWS
- Disrupting the airport hospitality industry
- ‘Everybody loves it’: Pet therapy program returns to YEG Edmonton International Airport
- Skyservice expands to Vancouver International Airport
- Some of Canada’s airports are increasing fees to passengers, here’s why
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
AVIATION NEWS
- Air Canada reports fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results
- CAE reports third quarter fiscal 2023 results
- Canadian officials say it might not be feasible to analyze debris of ‘unidentified’ objects that were shot down
- Chorus Aviation announces fourth quarter and year-end 2022 financial results
- C.N., Air Canada CEOs will not be required to understand French
- Did an Air Canada flight spot the Chinese spy balloon over B.C. on Jan. 31?
- Electric flight training course launches in British Columbia
- Mélanie Lussier appointed President and CEO of Aéro Montréal, Suzanne M. Benoît to retire as President in one month
- NAV CANADA reports January traffic figures
- Object over Yukon ordered shot down because of threat posed to aircraft: Trudeau
- Pilots reported mysterious lights ‘dancing’ over Yellowknife last month
- Some travellers are still using the ArriveCan app. Here’s why
- U.S. downs another aerial ‘object’ over Lake Huron as search continues for wreckage in Yukon
- While travel is rebounding, 2023 could prove challenging for airlines: reports