Articles by David Niles

WestJet’s announcement that it will be spinning off a no-frills carrier by the end of the year may mean the end of its admittedly tenuous status as a non-union company. The airline has used profit […]

Summit Air has anounced it’s building a new operating base at Calgary International Airport and added its largest aircraft to date to its fleet. The company, which is a subsidiary of construction giant Ledcor, specializes […]

North Bay-based Voyageur Aviation has completed it first conversion of a Dash 8-100 for freight service. The company unveiled the first completion last week at its North Bay hangar and announced Wasaya Airways as launch […]

Transport Canada and the European Aviation Safety Agency have approved Bombardier CS100 airliner for service to London City Centre Airport. And that means Bombardier can sell the aircraft to airlines that want to provide non-stop […]

Ground crews at London’s Heathrow Airport were surprised to find an Air Canada A330 missing one of four wheels on its right main gear when it landed there on Monday. The aircraft took off from […]

An Air Canada Rouge lost consciousness as the aircraft approached Pearson International Airport on April 3. The flight was enroute from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and set up for the runway when the pilot flying […]

Transport Canada’s director general Aaron McCrorie defended cuts to training flights for its inspectors in Parliament on Tuesday saying they’re actually better off learning on the ground. “You can actually get better training with a […]

Reconstruction of a main runway at Canada’s busiest airport has caused rippling cancellations, particularly among regional airlines. Runway 05/23 will be out of service until the end of May and that has caused some slot […]

KF Aerospace will hire 90 employees in coming months to cover a major expansion in its maintenance and cargo conversion business. The company has signed a deal with Aeronautical Engineers Inc. which holds the engineering […]

Vintage Wings of Canada is selling Hawk One, its Canadair MK-V Sabre that has been used as an air demonstration aircraft since 2009. The airplane was originally restored as a tribute to the centennial of […]

Canadian volunteers staged 17 events in the annual Women of Aviation Worldwide Week in early March as part of a global effort to expose women to aviation. A total of 53,000 girls and women at […]

Authorities are now calling the mysterious crash of a pilotless Cessna 172 in Northern Ontario a suspected suicide. The University of Michigan, which owned the aircraft, issued a statement Wednesday saying the ghost flight and […]

The Sunwing pilot who passed out in the cockpit of the Boeing 737  he was supposed to command to Mexico last New Year’s Eve has pleaded guilty to having care and control of an aircraft while […]