Month: September 2017

Bombardier, with the backing of the federal and Quebec governments, will fight U.S. government action that would effectively kill the company’s most important deal for the CSeries airliner. The U.S. Commerce Department slapped a 219.3 […..]

WestJet named its new budget carrier Swoop and announced plans to begin flying in June of 2018. The airline, which billed itself as a low-cost airline at its inception, created the ultra-budget spinoff to join […..]

A spilled drink of some kind led to a major emergency aboard an Air Canada flight in May of 2016. The Transportation Safety Board issued a report into the incident involving an Embraer E-190 flying […..]

Winnipeg helicopter pilot David Wood, 62, died of hypothermia after a freak accident on the ice of Antarctica on Jan. 11, 2016  an inquest into his death in Canberra, Australia was told on Wednesday. Wood […..]

A long-time gate guard in Edmunston, NB started its journey to a cozy hangar at CFB Trenton on Wednesday. According to an RCAF news release, crews started dismantling Lancaster KB882 to get it ready for […..]

The company proposing eight wind turbines in the flight paths for Collingwood and Stayner Airports in southern Ontario has abandoned the project according to a local media report. Bayshore Broadcasting reported Monday that an official […..]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has continued his novel approach to dealing with trade disputes by targeting the U.S. state most affected by Canada’s current tiff with Boeing. Trudeau phoned the Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on […..]