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Nav Canada says it’s decided to maintain tower services at seven smaller airports across the country but it’s giving no detailed reasons for the abrupt change of tack. The air traffic services company issued a […]

Bill Peppler, a towering figure in Canadian aviation died April 1 in Ottawa at the age of 95. Peppler was a founding member of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association and served as its general […]

Researchers at the University of Alberta are polling pilots on whether their desire to maintain their flight medical keeps them from seeking care. “The study itself will ask a series of questions to determine how […]

Three Canadian-operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft were pulled from service on Friday as part of a precautionary grounding related to electrical issues that affected dozens of aircraft operated by 16 airlines. Three Canadian airlines operate […]

The European Commission has put the kibosh on the proposed takeover of Air Transat by Air Canada and the two companies have reached an agreement on dissolving the merger process. The companies announced the move […]

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame has cancelled this year’s induction ceremony and gala dinner event due to ongoing pandemic restrictions. The annual event is usually held in June each year. The 2020 inductees will instead […]

The European aircraft manufacturing giant is bringing Nav Canada on board its fello’fly program to further its ambition to prove it is both technically and economically viable to group long-haul, wide-body airliners into pairs so […]

WestJet is betting on a strong domestic travel recovery and has announced it’s adding 11 direct flights in Western Canada in June. The company will add the following flights:Toronto to Fort McMurray, Kelowna to Saskatoon, […]

Transport Canada is working on revisions to night rating standards that would create two levels of night ratings in response to Transportation Safety Board criticisms that the current regs don’t clearly define a “visual reference […]

The union that represents air traffic controllers says 80 percent of its members think laying off staff at area control centres and towers across the country will affect public safety. Of the 1,800 controllers in […]

The head of the Transportation Safety Board says the Iranian government’s final report into the missile downing of a Ukrainian airliner loaded mostly with people headed to Canada doesn’t prove it was an accident. Kathy […]

Some sizeable airports across the country have been at least temporarily stripped of their official “international” status and will have to apply to get it back. Transport Canada issued an advisory circular in January that […]

A rash of laser attacks against air ambulance aircraft in Ontario has prompted a police investigation and concern by the operator. “It can be potentially catastrophic if a pilot was hit by a laser as […]

The Transportation Safety Board has renewed its call for Transport Canada to require lightweight flight data recording equipment on all commercially operated aircraft as part of its investigation into a fatal seaplane crash in 2019. […]

WestJet has cancelled orders for 15 of the 42 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft it was planning to buy as it continues to struggle with the pandemic downturn. The airline is operating about the same number […]