Month: February 2017

Canada’s eight largest airlines appear to have headed off mandatory random drug and alcohol testing for flight crews but Transport Minister Marc Garneau has reminded them they’re being watched. After a Sunwing captain passed out […]

Bombardier has hit back at allegations by Brazil-based Embraer that a $372.5 million loan from the Canadian government violates international trade laws. In an op-ed article published in the Globe and Mail, Mike Nadolski, Bombardier’s […]

A Nova Scotia company has invented a window film that protects pilots against laser attacks. Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI) nannounced this week that it has reached a deal with Airbus who will test the material […]

Two leading defence analysts have concluded that the federal government’s plan to buy 18 Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets as a stopgap measure in the tortured fighter replacement program will actually weaken Canada’s air defences and […]

Mount Royal University in Calgary temporarily grounded all its aircraft Tuesday after two of its instructors died in the crash of their Tecnam P2006T northeast of the city on Monday. They were identified Wednesday as […]

Some stranded Air Canada passengers are singing the praises of a WestJet pilot who bought them pizza after their own airline told them there was no food available. The unidentified WestJet pilot called a local […]

Airbus has awarded the contract to provide a full suite of training services for the C295 fixed wing search and rescue program. The contract could be worth as much as $300 million if all the […]

The remarkable journey of a PBY-5A from the edge of a northern lake to a touchstone for Canadian aviation history will end, and begin, June 18 with the official first flight of C-FNJE at Fairview […]

The Canadian Arctic Aviation Tour has begun a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for an ambitious air show tour of dozens of northern communities this summer. Supporters are invited to “buy a kilometre” of the […]

Aviation companies in Iqaluit rallied to help a Swiss Air International maintenance crew navigate some unfamiliar territory this week. On Feb. 1, A SwissAir Boeing 777 on its way to Los Angeles from Zurich had […]

An Iranian student pilot training in Manitoba has been caught up in U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Bardi Salimkhani was due to go on a long cross country flight through the U.S. with his […]

Canada will get its first of 18 Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets in 2019 but the fourth generation fighters might not look like much of a bargain by that time according to a CBC report. The […]

Pilots who fly for Air Georgian, which operates regional service for Air Canada in Ontario and the West, have voted overwhelmingly to join the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) “We welcome our more than 230 colleagues […]