Month: July 2019

Four people were killed and five injured in the crash of a Seair Cessna 208 Caravan floatplane off the west coast of B.C. on Friday. The chartered plane was on its way from Port Hardy […]

The first tangible evidence of the merger of First Air and Canadian North rolled out in the form of a freshly painted ATR 42 this week but the sometimes painful process of creating a single […]

Canada’s airline industry is characterized as a hotbed of sexual harassment, infidelity and gender discrimination in an uncomfortable workplace where male pilots play a lead role in creating the toxic environment according to a Global […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has chosen a Canadian homebuilt that has weathered a half dozen prairie winters as its annual sweepstakes aircraft. AOPA editor Dave Hirschmann traveled from AOPA headquarters in relatively balmy […]

There have been at as many as 13 people killed in four fatal crashes of DHC-2 Beavers in the last two weeks, three of them in Canada, but it would appear the plane’s reputation as […]

Pilots of an Air Canada Boeing 777-200 had little warning of the violent turbulence that injured 37 passengers and crew over the Pacific on Thursday. Passengers described a chaotic scene on board the aircraft, which […]

An RCAF search and rescue C-130 already in the air on another search responded to the fatal crash of a floatplane near Chibougamau, about 700 km. north of Montreal on Friday. Three of the four […]

The process of merging the North’s two largest airlines is officially under way, two months after the federal government approved their joining. Faced with increasing pressure from mainstream airlines competing on some of the most […]

The aircraft formerly known as CSeries is on solid footing after a year under the control of Airbus according Airbus. The Airbus Canada Limited Partnership was formed on July 1, 2018 giving Airbus majority control […]

Air Canada and Porter Airlines are among hundreds of carriers collectively trying to quash new passenger compensation rules that start to come into effect July 15. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 290 […]