TOP STORY
Pilot associations, unions demand stronger regulations on fatigue
DECISIONS
- Appeal – Lower back injury – Decision No. 1313/17, 2017 ONWSIAT 1800
Airline customer service agent appeal denial of entitlement for lower back injury – Significant chance of workplace occurrence found – Appeal and WSIB entitlement granted
CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY DECISIONS
- Application – Air Canada also c.o.b. as Air Canada rouge and as Air Canada Cargo, on behalf of itself and All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., and its affiliates ANA WINGS Co., Ltd., and Air Japan Co., Ltd. – Determination No. A-2017-133
Pursuant to section 60 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended, and section 8.2 of the Air Transportation Regulations, SOR/88-58, as amended - Application – Tag Aviation España SL – Determination No. A-2017-134
For suspension of Licence No. 140049 - Application – Harbour Air Ltd. c.o.b. as Harbour Air Seaplanes; Whistler Air; Saltspring Air; and West Coast Air – Determination No. A-2017-136
Pursuant to subsection 69(1) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended - Application – Harbour Air Ltd. c.o.b. as Harbour Air Seaplanes; Whistler Air; Saltspring Air; and West Coast Air – Determination No. A-2017-135
Pursuant to subsection 73(1) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended - Suspension – Don Davis Aviation, Inc. – Order No. 2017-A-130
Licence No. 967370 – Licence reinstated effective August 29, 2017
TC/TSB NEWS
- Government of Canada investing in safety at the Deer Lake Regional Airport
- National Trade Corridors Fund (NTCF)
- Funding opportunity for the Northern Territories under the National Trade Corridor Fund
- Civil Aviation Safety Alert (CASA)
- Canadian Airworthiness Directives
- Foreign Airworthiness Directive
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- CBAA: Template letter for use by members on CRA taxation policy
- COPA: Good VFR position reports are good airmanship
- COPA: Glider airspace warning
- COPA: JC Audet new COPA Manager of Operations
UNION NEWS
AVIATION MEDIA
- Airport contract to be reviewed
- Airport lobby group says government should help pay for runway extensions
- Air Transat passengers describe ‘deplorable’ treatment at first day of inquiry
- Angry passengers ready to vent at hearing into Ottawa airport ordeal
- Canada’s airport runways aren’t as long as they need to be (and the feds’ plans won’t fix them)
- Chorus Aviation announces three-year committed operating credit facility
- Discovery Air Inc. appoints new CEO
- Ontario mother wants answers from Air Canada after daughter left unaccompanied on flight from U.S.
- Pilot associations, unions demand stronger regulations on fatigue
- Pilot of Air Transat flight tells hearing that 6-hour tarmac delay was the lesser of two evils
- Pilot reportedly refused to fly deported U.K. asylum-seeker to ‘certain death’ in Afghanistan
- Vancouver airport lengthens runways to international standards
- Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre launches first annual golf tournament
- Workers striking against contracting out at Winnipeg Airport