Year: 2017

The Transportation Safety Board is launching a special review of operations at Pearson Airport in Toronto trying to get to the bottom of a series of runway incursions. Some of the close calls could have […]

Full-scale unionization drives in virtually all departments at WestJet have followed the successful bid by the Airline Pilots Association to organize pilots. Flight attendants, gate staff, mechanics and ramp employees are all being asked to […]

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says the Air Canada A320 that lined up on a taxiway at San Francisco Airport last month instead of a runway descended to 59 feet AGL before climbing out […]

A Brazilian Airbus C-295 did a cross-Canada tour last week visiting the three RCAF bases where the aircraft will be deployed starting in 2019. The Brazilian plane is configured similarly to the 15 C-295s that […]

The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has ordered Air Transat to explain why passengers were driven to call 911 for help as they sat in packed aircraft for up to six hours on afternoon and evening […]

Zenith Aircaft has done away with the traditional aircraft control panel in favour of a single large flat screen in its latest design. The STOL CH750 Super Duty was introduced at AirVenture 2017  and has […]

The crash of a homebuilt floatplane in Newfoundland and Labrador last week was caused by a loose seatbelt. According to the CBC, the Transportation Safety Board has determined the unbuckled passenger seatbelt became wrapped around […]

The new owners of New Leaf Travel have changed the name to reflect the new circumstances. Flair Air bought the fledgling travel booking site June 7 and has named it Flair Airlines. “We are starting […]

Nav Canada’s staffing issues have resulted in an unprecedented long-term closure at Vancouver International Airport. According to a NOTAM posted on Wednesday, VFR arrivals, except seaplanes and helicopters,  will be banned from YVR from 6 […]

Nine aviation groups representing charters, regional and miscellaneous commercial aviation operations have written Transport Minister Marc Garneau rebutting a campaign launched by four pilots unions on fatigue. The unions launched the drive after Transport Canada […]

Opposition is mounting to the federal government’s apparent intention to sell its interests in Canada’s largest airports. The CBC reported this week that the government has quietly retained PriceWaterhouseCoopers to advise it on the sale […]

The much-publicized go-around by an Air Canada A320 at San Francisco a couple of weeks ago may have warranted the somewhat sensational coverage it got in the mainstream media. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board […]

Most of the time when the multiple layers of safety that govern air operations catch an error and prevent an accident, the public never hears about it. But an Air Canada A320 crew was caught […]