TOP STORY
Air Canada fined $65,000 for ‘mental agony’ after family kicked off flight
DECISIONS
- Appeal – Violation of airline policy – Paine v. Air Canada, 2018 NSSC 215
Family travelling Air Canada from Vancouver to Sydney, Nova Scotia – Delayed waiting in Air Canada check-in line – Alleged that Air Canada’s staff caused the wait – Claim for damages pursuant to Air Canada’s tariff rules dismissed by Small Claims Court– No clear demonstration that Air Canada staff were at fault – Appeal dismissed - Consent Motion – Commissioner of Competition v. Vancouver Airport Authority, 2018 CACT 14
Motion to file additional witness statements
CIRB DECISIONS
- Amendment of certificate – International Association of Machinists v. Swissport Canada Inc., 2018 CIRB 11315-U
International Association of Machinists – all groomers, ramp/ground handlers, mechanics and all ground equipment maintenance personnel, storekeepers, communications co-ordinators and operations agents employed by Swissport Canada lnc. at the international airports in Montréal (Dorval and Mirabel), excluding office staff, managers, supervisors and those above - Certification of bargaining unit – Canadian Air Line Dispatchers Association v. Westjet, an Alberta Partnership, 2018 CIRB 11314-U
Canadian Air Line Dispatchers Association – all dispatchers employed by Westjet, excluding the Safety Investigators II, the Manager of Flight Dispatch, the Manager of Flight Operations Support, and those above
CTA DECISIONS
- Application – Executive Air Services, LLC – Determination No. A-2018-201
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act
- Application – Air Hamburg Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH – Order No. 2018-A-160
Exemptions from para. 33.1(b), subpara. 73(2)(c)(i) and section 33.2 of the Air Transportation Regulations
- Application – ACASS Canada Ltd. – Order No. 2018-A-159
Exemptions from paragraphs 33.1(b) and 73(2)(c) and sections 33.2 and 103.3 of the Air Transportation Regulations
- Application – Gain Jet Aviation S.A. – Order No. 2018-A-157
Exemptions from paragraph 33.1(b), subparagraph 73(2)(c)(i) and section 33.2 of the Air Transportation Regulations
- Application – Chartright Air Inc. c.o.b. Chartright Executive Helicopters and as Chartright – Order No. 2018-A-156
Exemptions from paragraphs 33.1(b) and 73(2)(c) and sections 33.2 and 103.3 of the Air Transportation Regulations
- Suspension – Baer Air, Inc. – Order No. 2018-A-158
License No. 120019
TC/TSB NEWS
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- ICAO: Encouraging applications to the Young Aviation Professionals Programme
- ICAO: Air cargo event underscores pressing need for modernization, liberalization, and new efficiencies
- ICAO: Aviation legal experts confront new operation and technological challenges
- OAC: Newsletter: Aero Montreal, v. 4 18
UNION NEWS
AVIATION NEWS
- Accident: Canada A333 near Bangor on Sep 5th 2018, wake turbulence by B773 injures flight attendant
- Agrisoma partners in first transatlantic biojet flight
- Air Canada affirmed as North America’s only four-star, full service international carrier
- An Avro Arrow hunt: Aviation relic gets scrub down in Ottawa
- Billy Bishop Airport has record-breaking summer welcoming more than 817,000 passengers from June to August
- Bringing the thunder: Wisk Air Helicopters
- British Airways flight from England to Calgary diverted to Iqaluit
- Canada Jetlines moves forward with licensing process
- Canadian airfares tracking up more than 10 per cent in third quarter: survey
- FLYHT and Spectralux create new offering for airlines
- Low Costs, High Profile
- Sky Regional Airlines welcomes Thunder Airlines to Sky Path pilot gateway program