Air Canada’s Diversity Recognized
Air Canada has been named as one of “Canada’s best diversity employers” for the fourth year in a row by Mediacorp Canada Inc. “We are very proud to be recognized for cultivating diversity and inclusion...
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Flying anywhere in Canada in winter can be a crap shoot and when circumstances piled up on Halifax-bound passengers last week, their captain made sure they were fed. The unidentified Air Canada skipper...
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Air Canada To Sell Drone Delivery
Air Canada is getting in the drone delivery business but it won’t be flying the aircraft. Air Canada Cargo, instead, will be offering its marketing and sales muscle to the rollout of Drone Delivery...
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Orbis Eye Hospital Makes Canadian Stops
A flying eye care hospital made public relations stops in Ottawa and Toronto this month to spread the word about the unique services it provides. The Orbis MD-10 widebody, which spends most of the...
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Aerobat On A Freeway
Friday evening traffic was snarled in Surrey, B.C., just east of Vancouver, when a Cessna 152 Aerobat made an emergency landing on one of the area’s busiest commuter routes. The pilot reported an...
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Longview At Paris Air Show
Longview Aviation Capital has become Canada’s largest exhibitor at the Paris Air Show this year with its recent acquisition of airliner and air tanker programs from Bombardier. The company, which...
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Last Canadian Battle of Britain Pilot Dies
Canada’s last surviving Battle of Britain pilot John Hart has died at the age of 102. Hart was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for a combat career that started in Spitfires in the famous air...
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ADS-B Required In U.S. Wednesday
Mandatory equipage with ADS-B Out goes into effect for most controlled airspace in the U.S. Jan. 1. Although there are no official figures being kept, it would appear only a small minority of Canadian...
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First CC-295 Delivered
The RCAF has officially taken delivery of its first CC-295 search and rescue but the first new aircraft to enter the inventory in five years won’t touch Canadian soil for at least six months. The...
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Fern Villeneuve Remembered
One of Canada’s best known aviation elder statesmen died Christmas Day at the age of 92. According to some reports, Lt. Col. Fern Villeneuve (Ret.) died from injuries suffered in a car accident three...
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Pickering Pushed Back to 2038
Toronto won’t need a new airport on the Pickering lands until at least 2038 according to a report released last week by Transport Canada. The KPMG Aviation Sector Analysis says Pearson and Billy...
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RCAF Gets Two New Challenger 650s
The federal government is buying two Challenger 650 business jets to replace two original Canadair Challengers bought in the 1980s that it says are beyond necessary upgrades, most notably ADS-B The...
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Temperature Checks Coming To Airports
Airline passengers arriving at and departing Canada’s 15 largest airports will all have their temperatures checked before boarding and will be turned away if they have fevers. Transport Canada said...
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Legendary Northern Pilot Was Crash Victim (Corrected)
A legendary pilot with deep roots in northern aviation has been identified as the instructor who was aboard a Murphy Moose that crashed near Edmonton last week. Keith Krueger, who spent most of his 50...
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Chorus Earns Profit Despite Pandemic
Its business is only a fraction of what it was six months ago but Chorus Aviation, which operates Jazz, says it’s weathering the storm and even turned a small profit in the second quarter of 2020. The...
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