18 Dec 2020
Boeing's 737 MAX is set to return to the skies in Canada with a local twist in the cockpit, after Ottawa became the last major Western regulator to lift a 20-month safety ban. Small print in Thursday's Transport Canada announcement sheds light on a regulatory split over the use of a less common tactic to overcome cockpit distractions, deepening international disunity over the lessons from two fatal crashes.
17 Dec 2020
MONTREAL Canada expects to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX jetliner in January, the country's aviation regulator said on Thursday, after it approved design changes to the aircraft grounded in March 2019 following two fatal crashes.
17 Dec 2020
MONTREAL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Transport Canada is set to announce approval of design changes to Boeing’s 737 MAX as early as Thursday, in a first step toward bringing the aircraft back to the country's skies after a near two-year flight ban, two sources familiar with the matter said.
16 Dec 2020
(Reuters) -Delta Air Lines Inc is in early talks with governments to add more quarantine-free flights overseas, a company executive said on Tuesday, as the aviation industry turns to such testing-backed programs to revive demand battered by COVID-19.
15 Dec 2020
Dec 15 Delta Air Lines Inc is in talks
with governments to add more quarantine-free trips to
international destinations, after the first two such flights
take off this week for Europe, an executive for the U.S. carrier
said on Tuesday.
15 Dec 2020
TORONTO/MONTREAL Canada kicked off its inoculation campaign against COVID-19 on Monday by injecting frontline healthcare workers and elderly nursing home residents, becoming just the third nation in the world to administer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. | Video
14 Dec 2020
MONTREAL/PARIS The head of European planemaker Airbus called on Monday for an end to separate diplomatic squabbles over Britain's exit from the European Union and a transatlantic aircraft subsidy dispute that collectively overshadow its business.
14 Dec 2020
Canada's first COVID-19 inoculations are set to begin as soon as Monday after some of the 30,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine arrived over the weekend, making Canada one of the few Western nations to start vaccinations. | Video
14 Dec 2020
Dec 14 Canada's first COVID-19 inoculations are
set to begin as soon as Monday after some of the 30,000 doses of
the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine arrived over the weekend, making
Canada one of the few Western nations to start vaccinations.
14 Dec 2020
SYDNEY/JERUSALEM/MONTREAL From Air Canada to China's CDB Aviation, airlines and leasing firms are rushing to permanently convert older passenger jets into freighters, betting on a boom in e-commerce as the value of used planes tumbles amid the pandemic. | Video