Air Canada sélectionne le CS300
Big news this morning as Bombardier announces its fourth quarter and year end 2015 results. The PR lists all these items, but we believe the first two to be the most critical: Air Canada signs for up to 75 CS300…
Tag Air Canada
Americans buying into Brazilian airlines
Last week United announced its deal to take a stake in Azul. This follows an earlier move by Delta to take a stake in GOL. What do these deals mean? Let’s start with the following table. Views: 57
What WestJet Going International Means
Canada’s WestJet announced, in a briefing to its pilots, that it is planning to acquire wide-body aircraft and begin flying internationally in 2015. The carrier currently wet-leases Boeing 757s from Thomas Cook for Hawaii operations, and those contracts expire next…
Billy Bishop and Porter – Round 2
Porter Airlines dropped the other shoe today. The CS100 provisional order announcement of April 10 was met with skepticism by the attendant media. As readers will note from our interview with airline Chairman Don Carty, the opposition to the airline’s…
Air Canada’s fleet updates
Aviation Week and Aviation Daily journalist Andy Compart published a story on the outcome of an arbitration between the airline and its pilots. The airline won the arbitration and this opens up a host of fleet changes the airline can…
Airbus and Air Canada make “Perfect Flight”
Today Airbus and Air Canada are performing North America’s first “Perfect Flight” over international borders. The goal is to cut CO2 emissions by more than 40% compared to a regular flight. The commercial flight on an A319 flying from Toronto…