Year: 2020

WestJet has warned thousands of its employees that their wages are being cut by more than half because of the federal government’s shift of COVID-19 measures to the Employment Insurance system. WestJet employees on the […]

It would appear the nine scale model test aircraft used by Avro to verify aerodynamic data for the CF-105 Arrow disintegrated when they fell into Lake Ontario more than 60 years ago. The one-eighth sized […]

The Ontario Provincial Police has released video shot by one of its helicopters showing how its crew guided rescuers to the location of a missing six-year-old boy. The boy went missing in Sauble Beach about […]

The RCAF’s first operational C295 is on Canadian soil and on its way to its home base at CFB Comox. The aircraft arrived in Newfoundland late last week after being ferried from the manufacturing plant […]

A new airline that appears to be the reincarnation of defunct regional carrier Air Georgian is hoping to be serving Waterloo, Ottawa, Windsor and Montreal within the next few months. Brock Henderson, the former VP […]

The optimism that prevailed among airlines at the beginning of the summer has turned to pragmatism as they cancel flights in the face of lower demand than expected. According to the flight data firm Cirium, […]

Transport Canada is giving operators of the A220 a year to fix drains in the front of the aircraft that allowed rainwater to drip into the forward avionics bay and caused an engine to shut […]

WestJet is providing free COVID-19 travel insurance for passengers on its international flights starting Sept. 18. Reservations for air-only and vacation package travel to Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe, including the U.K. will have the […]

The world’s first “socially distanced” air show took off in London, Ontario Saturday with a lineup that rivals the best of any “normal” air show. A host of military demonstration teams, including the U.S. Air […]

It’s not often that a navy ship is named after a pilot but the last of six of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Arctic patrol vessels will carry the name of a distinguished naval aviator from […]

Cascade Aerospace, of Abbotsford, B.C. has earned part of a lucrative contract to maintain the U.S. Marines’ fleet of KC-130J tanker aircraft. The company has teamed up with UK-based Marshall Aerospace and Defense Group to […]

COVID-19 has pushed back the effective date of new regulations requiring personal flotation devices for passengers and crew on small commercial seaplanes. The rules were supposed to go into effect on Sept. 6 and they’ve […]