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Transport Canada fines two individuals for failing to follow direction from the flight crew to wear face coverings during flight
COVID-19 UPDATES
CTA DECISIONS
- Suspension – Northern Air Transport, Inc cob SelectJet – Order No. 2020-A-142
License No. 977086, reinstated effective September 3, 2020 - Application – Nichols Outfitting Inc. – Determination No. A-2020-155
Application for suspension granted pursuant to paragraph 63(2)(b) - Application – TAG Aviation San Marino S.r.l – Determination No. A-2020-156
License issued to operate a non-scheduled international service to transport on a charter basis between Italy and Canada – license subject to prescribed conditions - Suspension – EJ Aviation Ltd. – Order No. 2020-A-141
License No. 962023
TC/TSB NEWS
- Airworthiness directives
- Aircraft/fuel truck collision highlights importance of following safety directives during emergencies
- Inadvertent movement of fuel levers lead to engine power loss in June 2019 accident on Eabamet Lake, Ontario
- Investigation report: February 2020 collision with power lines of a small aircraft in Les Cèdres, Quebec
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- COPA – Cessna collides with powerlines, no survivors – TSB Report
- COPA – Improper disinfectant products damage aircraft
- COPA – Mission to recover long-lost pilot launched
- COPA – Multiple findings in TSB Report on DC-3 crash
- COPA – Where to fly – East: Stanley, Nova Scotia
- ICAO – ICAO, UNOCT, conclude important agreement to curb terrorist mobility through the global exchange of API-PNR data
- ICAO – ICAO, UPU, urge national commitments and support for postal, air cargo, and express mail operators
- ICAO – ICAO Secretary General addresses UN global counter-terrorism company on aviation and pandemic responses
UNION NEWS
AIRPORT NEWS
- ACI analysis shows vanishing traffic, collapsing revenues, and rising risk
- ACI urges strong and coordinated government action to support recovery
- ACI World data shows COVID-19’s dramatic effect on international air traffic
- Air Canada starts COVID-19 testing at Toronto airport in push to lift travel restrictions
- Airlines look to introduce COVID-19 testing at airports with hopes of ending strict quarantine measures
- Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport announces launch of Safe Travels Program
- COVID-19: Rising financial risks in the airport industry
- Federal government must step up to save Atlantic air transport
- Media invited to new COVID-19 initiative at Toronto Pearson
- New Airport Service Quality award introduced in response to COVID-19
- Passengers should expect changes at Windsor International Airport when flights resume
- Physical distancing measures in airports – taking steps in the right direction
- Struggling airports implore Trudeau to help hardest-hit sectors
- WestJet, Vancouver airport launch pilot project to test passengers for COVID-19
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- Drones now have an enemy: the counter-drone
- RCMP find massive illegal grow operation in rural B.C. during unrelated aerial operation
- Woman plucked from British Columbia mountain with a helicopter
AVIATION NEWS
- 100 Jazz Aviation employees laid off at Halifax maintenance site due to COVID-19
- Air Canada’s cancellation of regional flights will gut remote communities
- Airlines face uphill climb to replace quarantines with COVID-19 testing in Canada
- Air Transat says many customers won’t see refunds until January
- Associations adapt for an uncertain future
- De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 Turboprop becomes first regional aircraft recertified to meet ICAO’s most stringent noise standards
- ‘ESCALATING THE PANIC’: Passengers threatened crew after Toronto plane crash, safety board says
- IATA top doctor says airlines can’t afford to wait for vaccine
- McMaster HealthLabs, Air Canada and Greater Toronto Airports Authority to conduct a voluntary COVID-19 study of arriving international travellers
- Missing the 6th element: crew decision-making
- NAV CANADA restores nighttime service across the country
- Nearly 1,000 flights in Canada have carried COVID-positive passengers since February
- No Max 8 aircraft in Canadian skies until all safety concerns addressed: Garneau
- Pacific Coastal Airlines resumes non-stop Victoria-Prince George service
- Surge in airline complaints to national regulator creates delays, backlog
- Transport Canada concludes Boeing 737 Max testing
- WestJet concerned third-party charges undermining Canada’s economic recovery