Category Archives: Transport
B.C. says show us evidence safe to fly if airlines drop in-flight distancing
VICTORIA — British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says he wants to see the evidence that it's safe for the country's two largest airlines to drop their in-flight distancing policies during the pandemic. "What I'd like to hear from Transport C...
Residents of Gagetown, N.B., celebrate as river ferry returns to service
GAGETOWN, N.B. — Residents of Gagetown and Jemseg, N.B., can wave to each other across the St. John River, but they needed to make a round-trip drive for a couple of hours to get any closer without their beloved river ferry for
Data on PS752 flight recorders to be downloaded in Paris next month
OTTAWA — The federal Transportation Safety Board says information on the flight recorders of the civilian airliner Iran shot down earlier this year will be downloaded the week of July 20 in France. The development comes just days after Ottawa...
COVID concerns: Nova Scotia cancels Yarmouth-Maine ferry service for 2020
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has cancelled the 2020 sailing season for the heavily subsidized ferry service that links the province with Maine, citing the ongoing struggle to contain COVID-19 in the United States. Premier Stephen McNeil sa...
Air Canada offers refunds to some passengers with cancelled flights
MONTREAL — Air Canada has quietly changed its refund policy to allow some customers whose flights were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic to recoup their cash — but not passengers whose trips originated in Canada. Travellers with flights "departing...
New transport rules for disabled travellers a step forward but not enough: advocates
New rules aimed at making travel within Canada safer and more accessible for people with disabilities mark a welcome step forward but don't yet go far enough to removing long-standing barriers, advocates said Thursday as the new regulations officially ...
Watchdog says flight refund rules may need reworking to address possible ‘gaps’
Passenger protection rules may need to be revised after hundreds of thousands of flight cancellations prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic left travellers out of pocket, the head of Canada's transportation regulator said Wednesday. Scott Streiner, who hea...
Plans for ‘Atlantic bubble’ on July 3 as cases of COVID-19 stabilize
HALIFAX — The four Atlantic provinces announced plans on Wednesday to ease interprovincial travel restrictions within the region, creating a so-called "bubble" amid relatively few new COVID-19 infections in recent weeks. As of July ...
WestJet retreats on labour code exemption that would facilitate mass layoffs
WestJet Airlines Ltd. says it has halted its pursuit of a labour code exemption that would have facilitated mass layoffs. WestJet aviation security manager Jared Mikoch-Gerke told the House of Commons health committee Monday the airline had revoked its...