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B.C. fire tanker crashes in Australia, both on board safe: owner
A Boeing 737 air tanker owned by Coulson Aviation, based in Port Alberni, B.C., has crashed in Western Australia while on deployment to a fire. Coulson’s 737 Tanker 139 is seen in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Coulson Aviation **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Crash averted at Austin airport; aviation authorities to investigate
Southwest Airlines planes are seen at the AustinBergstrom International Airport (AUS) in Austin, Texas on January 22, 2023. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Air Canada pilots union considers merger with larger union
Grounded Air Canada planes sit on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Air Canada plans to more than double its capacity this year compared with 2021, but says it will remain below its pre-pandemic level. CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Seven aerospace suppliers that can offer reliable dividends to investors
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As Boeing’s 747 retires, a look at the jumbo jet’s 50-year reign
Picture of the first Boeing 747 rolled out of the Boeing company's plant in the State of Washington in September 1968. On September 30, 1968, the first 747 was rolled out of the Everett assembly building before the world's press and representatives of the 26 airlines that had ordered the plane, and first flight took place on February 09, 1969. The Boeing 747, called also "Jumbo Jet", entered service on January 21, 1970, on Pan Am's New York�London route. (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Inside the rise and fall of the Boeing 747
Current and former employees, customers and invited guests participate in a ceremony to mark the delivery of the last Boeing 747 aircraft, at the Boeing Future of Flight Museum in Everett, Washington, on January 31, 2023. JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images
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Boeing’s 747, the original jumbo jet, prepares for final send-off
FILE PHOTO: Relief supplies of the "Humanitarian Help of Switzerland" are loaded onto a Boeing 747-400BCF cargo plane bound for Venezuela amid the novel coronavirus pandemic at Zurich Airport, Switzerland June 18, 2020. Picture taken June 18, 2020. Ennio Leanza/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Asteroid’s sudden flyby shows blind spot in planetary threat detection
This diagram made available by NASA shows the estimated trajectory of asteroid 2023 BU, in red, affected by the earth's gravity, and the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, in green. On Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, NASA revealed that this newly discovered asteroid, about the size of a truck, will zoom 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America Thursday evening. Scientists say there is no risk of an impact. Even if it came a lot closer, scientists say it would burn up in the atmosphere, with only a few small pieces reaching the surface. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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Two Indian air force jets crash, one pilot killed
People stand next to a plane wreckage after a Sukhoi Su-30 and a Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter jets crashed during an exercise in Pahadgarh area some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Gwailor on January 28, 2023. - Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed on January 28 in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises around 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of the capital New Delhi, police at the crash site told AFP. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Porter Airlines’ new Toronto hub brings more competition to Canadian airways
CEO of Porter Airlines Michael Deluce poses for a photograph with thee Embraer E195-E2 before it’s inaugural flight from Pearson Airport during a flight preview in Toronto, on Friday Jan. 27, 2023. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Can airlines really give away your lost luggage? AirTags could be a legal test for a controversial practice
Friday, January 27, 2023 – Nakita Rees and Tom Wilson, photographed at their home in Cambridge, Ontario, have been tracking their lost luggage for months following a honeymoon in September. The case has shed light on the processes that airlines - or at least Air Canada - undertakes to deliver, then sell, unclaimed luggage. (Nick Iwanyshyn / The Globe and Mail)
international business
Boeing pleads not guilty to fraud charge in 737 MAX arraignment
FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is seen on the side of a Boeing 737 MAX at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, Britain, July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File Photo
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U.S. airlines forecast strong 2023 travel, but costs may dampen outlook
FILE PHOTO: An American Airlines Airbus A321-200 plane takes off from Los Angeles International airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
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Pent-up travel demand to offset headwinds for airlines as stocks take off
A Delta Airlines jet comes in for a landing in front of the Empire State Building and Manhattan skyline after flights earlier were grounded during an FAA system outage at Laguardia Airport, in New York City, New York, U.S., January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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Users of pilot-alert system that failed report new delays
FILE - A traveler looks at flight information screen at Chicago's Midway Airport that reflects the flight delays stemming from a computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration that brought flights to a standstill across the U.S. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, in Chicago. A system that sends alerts to pilots, and broke down earlier this month, is causing delays for some users again. But federal officials say this time it's not affecting any flights. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday, Jan. 25, that that the system was online and operational, but some users were reporting slower response times due to high demand. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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Weather a factor in fatal 2021 crash of plane towing marriage banner in Montreal, TSB says
A member of the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) inspects the wreckage of a plane at a crash site in Montreal, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Canada's Transportation Safety Board says weather and engine trouble contributed to the fatal crash of a small plane that went down near Old Montreal while towing a marriage proposal banner in 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Boeing reports loss, but first positive free cash flow since 2018
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2020, file photo a Boeing 777X airplane takes off on its first flight with the Olympic Mountains in the background at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. Boeing Co. reports earnings on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Sunwing cancels some regular flights from Halifax, Moncton and Fredericton
Travellers wait in line at a Sunwing Airlines check-in desk at Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Sunwing airlines has reduced its flight schedules from three airports in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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First Native American woman in space steps out on spacewalk
This photo provided by NASA, astronauts NASA's Nicole Mann and Japan's Koichi Wakata venture out on a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Their job was to install support struts for small solar panels launching this summer, part of a continuing effort by NASA to expand the space station's power grid. (NASA via AP)
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Ottawa green-lights commercial space launches in Canada
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques gives a demonstration on Canadarm 2 simulator to Canada's Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra as Annie Koutrakis, parliamentary secretary to the minister of transport looks on, at the Canadian Space Agency prior to an announcement on Canada commercial space launches in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
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Surge in discount airlines making Canada’s pilot shortage worse, experts say
A Flair Airlines 737 MAX 8 jetliner (C-FLKA) takes off from Vancouver International Airport, Richmond, B.C., on Friday, October 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Bayne Stanley
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Newly opened Nepal airport didn’t have functioning instrument landing system, official says
A French investigator takes a photo of the wreckage of a passenger plane at the crash site, in Pokhara, Nepal, Wednesday, Jan.18, 2023. Nepalese authorities are returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and are sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused the country's deadliest air accident in 30 years. The flight plummeted into a gorge on Sunday while on approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, killing all 72 aboard.(AP Photo/Yunish Gurung)
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Qantas plane lands safely after mayday call over Pacific
A Qantas Boeing 737-800 aircraft operating as flight QF144 is seen past heat haze after its safe landing at the Sydney International Airport on January 18, 2023. - Ambulance services scrambled at Sydney airport on January 18 to meet an incoming Qantas plane that issued a mid-air mayday alert with engine trouble before landing safely. (Photo by Andrew LEESON / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW LEESON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Families mourn plane crash victims in Nepal as data box sent to France for analysis
Family members mourn the death of a victim of the plane crash of a Yeti Airlines operated aircraft, in Pokhara, Nepal January 17, 2023. REUTERS/Rohit Giri NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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Small plane crashes on road near Buttonville Airport north of Toronto
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is investigating after a two-seat plane crashed near an Ontario airport Monday afternoon. The Transportation Safety Board logo is seen in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-TSB *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board to participate in Nepal plane crash investigation
People watch as wreckage from a plane crash is lifted from a gorge in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday, a day after a plane crashed while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. Rescue workers rappelled down a 300-meter (984 feet) gorge to continue the search. Two more bodies have been found Monday morning. (AP Photo/Krishna Mani Baral)
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Flight data, cockpit voice recorders retrieved from plane crash site in Nepal
Rescuers stand by wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan 16, 2023. A spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane that went down on approach to a newly opened airport in the tourist town of Pokhara. (AP Photo/Anish Bhattarai)
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Nepal mourns after deadly plane crash kills at least 66
Rescue teams work to retrieve bodies from the wreckage at the crash site of an aircraft carrying 72 people in Pokhara in western Nepal January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Krishna Mani Baral NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Canada’s airports need a new financial flight path – and shareholders
The Editorial Board
asia-pacific business
Boeing 737 Max makes first passenger flight in China since March 2019
(FILES) This file photo taken on June 5, 2019 shows grounded China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft parked in a line at Urumqi airport, in China's western Xinjiang region. - A Boeing 737 MAX took off from southern China on January 13, 2023, the first domestic flight using the aircraft model since March 2019 when it was grounded after two deadly crashes. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canada’s airline passenger bill of rights isn’t working, unless you happen to own an airline
The Editorial Board
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Transport Minister Alghabra could show a little more red-hot anger at airlines
Campbell Clark
world
U.S. FAA says initial review shows outage sparked by procedural failure
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, speaks to the Transportation Research Board gathering in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. The world's largest aircraft fleet was grounded for hours by a cascading outage in a government system that delayed or canceled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Explainer: How NOTAM caused widespread flight disruptions
A Southwest Airlines jet comes in for a landing after flights earlier were grounded during an FAA system outage at Laguardia Airport in New York City, New York, U.S., January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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China Southern Airlines schedules two Boeing 737 Max flights in possible return of model
A China Southern Airlines Airbus commercial passenger aircraft is pictured in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, November 26, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/Files
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Decisions on passenger claims will extend to other travellers on same flight, CTA says
Travellers wait in line at a Sunwing Airlines check-in desk at Trudeau Airport in Montreal on April 20, 2022.