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WestJet cutting jobs and slashing flight capacity by 1/3
COVID-19 UPDATES
DECISIONS
- Certification, class action lawsuit – Bergen v. WestJet Airlines Ltd., 2021 BCSC 12
Plaintiff sought certification of a class proceeding against the defendants WestJet Airlines Ltd. and WestJet Encorse Ltd. relating to WestJet’s charging of baggage fees – plaintiff alleged WestJet charged fees for baggage carriage in a manner contrary to WestJet’s own tariffs from 2014 to 2019 – Court certified the class proceeding
CTA DECISIONS
- Application – Soin International, LLC – Determination No. A-2021-4
License No. 120041
- Application – Transwest Air Limited Partnership, by its General Partner Transwest Management Ltd. c.o.b. Transwest Air and Northern Shield Helicopters – Determination No. A-2021-5
Application for license to operate domestic services, small and medium aircraft – license issued
- Application – Transwest Air Limited Partnership, by its General Partner Transwest Management Ltd. c.o.b. Transwest Air and Northern Shield Helicopters – Determination No. A-2021-6
Application for license to operate non-scheduled international services, small and medium aircraft, to transport traffic on a charter basis between Canada and any other country – license issued
- Application – Lake Country Airways Inc. – Determination No. A-2021-3
Application for license to operate a domestic service, small aircraft – license issued
TC/TSB NEWS
- Airworthiness directives
- Fatigue fracture in wing lift strut assembly led to fatal 2019 in-flight breakup of a floatplane in Manitoba
- Interim Order Respecting Certain Requirements for Civil Aviation Due to COVID-19, No. 18
- Investigation report: June 2020 collision with power line of a small aircraft in Maple Ridge, British Columbia
- New pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements come into effect for all air travellers flying into Canada
- Pre-departure COVID-19 testing and negative results to be required for all air travellers coming to Canada
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- AIAC – Jim Quick to retire as president and CEO of AIAC
- COPA – Bohn to lead Nav Canada
- COPA – IATA weighs in on Canada’s new COVID-19 testing requirement
- ICAO – ICAO welcomes resolution of Gulf airspace restrictions
- ICAO – Statement on Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752
UNION NEWS
AIRPORT NEWS
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- COVID-19 testing centre for arriving international travellers launches at Pearson Airport
- Free COVID-19 testing program launches at Toronto Pearson Airport for international travellers
- Kingston Airport seeks airline partner
- Lethbridge Airport optimistic about future despite COVID-19 impacts
- Passenger plane makes emergency landing at Moncton airport
- What a difference a year makes: London airport struggles to recover
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
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- Longer-range Ansat helicopter makes maiden flight
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AVIATION NEWS
- Airline association say it’s ‘frustrated’ by federal government’s new ‘rushed’ COVID testing rules
- Airlines, travellers slam ‘confusion’ created by new COVID-19 testing rules
- B.C. Supreme Court gives OK to class-action lawsuit against WestJet over baggage fee
- Biz av in North American makes slow but steady progress toward pre-pandemic flight activity
- Canadians denied from boarding flights in Cuba, Mexico under new COVID-19 testing rules
- Canada ends ban of flights from the U.K. as coronavirus variant spreads
- COVID-19 test requirement for air travelers to Canada causing concern among airlines, passengers
- Garneau rejects airline call to delay, revamp testing rules for travellers
- Pre-flight testing now in effect for flights in Canada
- Tight schedules, narrower planes: how the pandemic is reshaping the airline industry
- Travel industry “in tailspin” as federal government adopts new COVID-19 test rules
- WestJet bars passengers from boarding for improper virus test
- WestJet cutting jobs and slashing flight capacity by 1/3
- Westjet ready to fly 737 MAX as of January 21
- Wing lift strut fatigue caused fatal float-plane crash near Little Grand Rapids: TSB