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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 […]

The Canadian Harvard Society has started looking for an RCAF P-51D Mustang that crashed in Lake Ontario in 1952. The society hopes to recover the aircraft and possibly restore it and it also plans to […]

At least one of Air Canada’s Boeing 787s has been indefinitely grounded for what Boeing terms “two distinct manufacturing issues” in the fuselages of a total of eight Dreamliners. Boeing didn’t say specifically what the […]

WestJet will ban passengers who refuse to wear masks on board their aircraft for up to a year under a new zero tolerance policy announced Friday. Wearing a mask is mandatory for anyone older than […]

The National Airlines Council of Canada says it will need its own government aid program to emerge from the devastation of the COVID 19 pandemic. NACC wasted little time trying to get the ear of […]

Transport Canada will flight test the software changes to the Boeing 737 MAX in the coming week with a unique cross border arrangement that gets around the COVID 19 border closure. Boeing will fly the […]

An online alternative to the rust remover method of satisfying Transport Canada’s recurrency requirements is being offered by Elevate Aviation. The non-profit organization will live stream a free TC-approved recurrency program on Aug. 22 from […]