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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 […]

B.C.’s 57 regional and rural airports are lining up for $16.7 million in provincial relief to help them weather the next year of post-pandemic recovery. The grants were included in a rural transportation package announced […]

Just in time for the post-pandemic wanderlust that will likely strike, the prime minister’s international ride is ready to take him wherever the spirit moves. After more than a year of repairs, the CC-150 Polaris […]

Sky Regional Airlines will fold after losing its contract to supply regional feeder service for Air Canada in Central Canada and the eastern U.S. The carrier will transfer its fleet of E175 twin jets to […]

Transport Canada has temporarily banned single-pilot operations from the right seat in the Bell 505 helicopter after a collective stick failed during a preflight check earlier this year. The measure was included in an emergency […]

Residents of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories are demanding the territorial government restore the operational width of the local airport runway to 200 feet. According to the CBC, the government reduced the 200-foot runway […]

Adversity becomes opportunity sometimes and a Cape Breton air charter company is hoping to find the silver lining in the pandemic. Airlines have drastically cut service to Atlantic Canada and Celtic Air Services is poised […]