Month: September 2016

A class action lawsuit filed in Saskatchewan alleges that WestJet and Air Canada colluded in levying baggage fees for domestic flight in 2014. The suit says it’s an unlikely coincidence that the two airlines announced […]

A Swedish group has awarded its Environmental Product Declaration to the Bombardier CSeries airliner adding credence to one of the company’s biggest selling points for the aircraft. The International EPD System says the average CSeries […]

She’s one of 14 indigenous pilots working for an indigenous airline but Melissa Haney is the first woman captain. The pilot flew an Air Inuit Dash-8 to her home town of Inukjuaq to a hero’s […]

A House of Commons Committee has issued its report on the state of the RCAF and it doesn’t paint a very encouraging picture. Decades of political wrangling and procurement paralysis have led to a situation […]

An Okanagan Valley man who called in a bomb threat against a WestJet flight in 2014 will spend a year in jail for what he admits was a “stupid” idea. Michael Howells, 37, was late […]

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says the federal government “must” invest in Bombardier’s CSeries program because it’s good for the country. He told Bloomberg that CSeries “is by far the most innovative project in Canada in a […]

Westjet has inked a deal with Suncor Energy to conduct more than 100 weekly flights between five cities and Fort MacMurray to move its workers. It wasn’t immediately clear what affect the deal might have […]

Battle of Britain Pilot Goes Flying Canada’s last surviving Battle of Britain pilot got reacquainted with an old friend Sept. 10, the day before celebrating his 100th birthday. The former fighter pilot went for a […]

A pristine 1930 Fleet Model 2 was substantially damaged in a landing accident at Springbank Airport in Calgary Sept. 13 but its owner and pilot escaped injury. Geoff Pritchard said he lost control of the […]

A tiny homebuilt that was the subject of a documentary is safe at the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre in Sault Ste Marie after an unusual trip from Vermont. The 18-foot-long aircraft’s fuselage made the 1,300-km […]

Two women whose antics aboard a Sunwing flight to Cuba prompted a fighter escort back to Toronto have pleaded guilty to criminal charges relating to the incident. Lilia Ratmanski entered her pleas on charges of […]

The Transportation Safety Board has confirmed earlier speculation that a piston-powered Piper Navajo had been fueled with Jet A before an off-airport landing near Thompson, Manitoba a year ago. The Keystone Air Service Navajo suffered […]

Bombardier says it can’t build the number of CSeries it wants to this year because Pratt & Whitney can’t deliver the engines it needs. Bombardier will only be able to build seven CSeries this year […]

It will take the RCAF nine years to make its new Cyclone anti-submarine helicopter fleet fully operational but that’s OK because the Navy doesn’t have enough ships to hold them. That’s the observation of analysts as […]

The pilot of a privately owned Piper Twin Comanche was killed Monday when the aircraft went down in a densely populated area of Powell River, B.C. The airplane crashed in a bushy area of downtown […]