Month: October 2020

This week marks the hundredth anniversary of the first trans-Canada flight, a remarkable feat for the time. A group of pilots, flying a series of different aircraft, flew 5,400 km from Halifax to Esquimalt in […]

International travellers visiting Alberta will have the option to skip most of the current mandatory 14-day quarantine in favour of taking two tests for COVID-19 starting Nov. 2. The federal government will roll out a […]

Rumors are swirling on Parliament Hill that an airline bailout package is in the works and that might have had something to do with WestJet announcing its new refund policy. The entire aviation industry has […]

Transport Canada’s daily CADORS (Civil Aviation Daily Occurence Reporting System) doesn’t usually have a flair for the dramatic but Air Tindi President Chris Reynolds says it made a lot more of a relatively minor incident […]

WestJet is cancelling about 80 percent of its flights to Atlantic Canada as the pandemic continues to depress air travel, particularly to the Maritimes Provinces, which have strict quarantine requirements in place. “The lack of […]

KF Aerospace has joined the chorus of aviation companies urging the federal government to create a sector specific aid program for the industry. The company, Canada’s largest MRO and mod company for airliners, announced a […]

Airbus has unveiled a luxury business jet version of the A220 called the ACJ TwoTwenty and it’s getting some good reviews largely because of the same attributes that are highly regarded in the airliner.  It’s […]

Air Canada has sold and will subsequently lease back more than a third of its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft weeks before the controversial aircraft is expected to start returning to service. The airline […]

The first female commander of the RCAF’s flight training program says she’s hoping her accomplishments will help make future appointments like hers a lot less newsworthy. Lt.-Col. Riel Erickson took command of the Big 2,  […]

The COVID 19 pandemic has put all kinds of businesses to the test and an Atlantic Canada charter company is showing the agility that’s necessary to stay in business. Celtic Air Services, based in Port […]

The founder of Canada’s first airline owned by an indigenous woman is one of 18 characters in a new DC graphic novel called “Wonderful Women of History.” Teara Fraser, the Metis founder of Vancouver-based Iskwew […]

Unions that represent many employees of Canada’s airlines are calling on Ottawa to hand out $7 billion in low-interest loans to their companies and give them 10 years to pay them back to deal with […]