Month: April 2017

WestJet’s announcement that it will be spinning off a no-frills carrier by the end of the year may mean the end of its admittedly tenuous status as a non-union company. The airline has used profit […]

Summit Air has anounced it’s building a new operating base at Calgary International Airport and added its largest aircraft to date to its fleet. The company, which is a subsidiary of construction giant Ledcor, specializes […]

North Bay-based Voyageur Aviation has completed it first conversion of a Dash 8-100 for freight service. The company unveiled the first completion last week at its North Bay hangar and announced Wasaya Airways as launch […]

Transport Canada and the European Aviation Safety Agency have approved Bombardier CS100 airliner for service to London City Centre Airport. And that means Bombardier can sell the aircraft to airlines that want to provide non-stop […]

Ground crews at London’s Heathrow Airport were surprised to find an Air Canada A330 missing one of four wheels on its right main gear when it landed there on Monday. The aircraft took off from […]

An Air Canada Rouge lost consciousness as the aircraft approached Pearson International Airport on April 3. The flight was enroute from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and set up for the runway when the pilot flying […]

Transport Canada’s director general Aaron McCrorie defended cuts to training flights for its inspectors in Parliament on Tuesday saying they’re actually better off learning on the ground. “You can actually get better training with a […]

Reconstruction of a main runway at Canada’s busiest airport has caused rippling cancellations, particularly among regional airlines. Runway 05/23 will be out of service until the end of May and that has caused some slot […]

The RCAF is putting its air demonstration teams through their paces in Comox, B.C. this week as they get ready for the six-month air show season. The Snowbirds and CF-18 demo teams typically spend a […]

Five replica First World War biplanes flew around the Vimy Monument in France on April 9 as part of a huge ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the epic battle. The aircraft, four Nieuport 11s […]

Bombardier’s board of directors has approved cutting Executive Chairman Pierre Beaudoin’s pay by $1.4 million USD to his 2015 rate of $3.8 million USD. The pay cut was requested by Beaudoin after filing documents made […]

A group of Calgary pilots is building a .6 scale replica of the Avro Arrow that they hope to fly within the next five to 10 years. The group has been meeting for 20 years […]

By RAA Canada In September 2016 an Advanced UL Zenair 601 was on approach to Guelph Airpark when the nose pitched abruptly downward and crashed, killing the one crew member on board. The Canada Transport […]

By: Phil Lightstone In typical Florida weather, Sun ’n Fun opened hot and humid, with a broken ceiling at 3800 feet.  With a record of 510 exhibitors, Canadian participation was at an all-time high with […]

The first scheduled flight of Airbus’s latest airliner landed in Vancouver earlier this week. Cathay Pacific has launched daily A350-900 service to and from Hong Kong. The aircraft is Airbus’s answer to the Boeing 787 […]