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A cat escape caused a four-hour delay for an Air Canada flight Thursday as airline staff in Halifax struggled to get the feline from its hiding place in cockpit wiring. (Jan. 27) [Associated Press]

AN Air Canada plane has caught fire over Sydney and is currently dumping fuel. Flight AC34 departed Sydney Airport at at 10.25am en route to Vancouver and Toronto and reportedly experienced a fire in the galley which could not be contained. Fuel is currently being dumped over Hornsby and Longreef. It is not known if any dangerous cargo was on board the Boeing 777-233LR. Two years ago, at least 11 passengers and four crew members were injured when the Air Canada Flight 34 from Sydney to Vancouver hit severe turbulence caused by a thunderstorm about one hour northeast of Honolulu....

The Federal Court of Canada on Wednesday ordered Air Canada to pay $12,000 to Ottawa French-language rights crusader Michel Thibodeau in part because when he asked an English-speaking flight attendant for 7Up in May 12 of 2009, he got Sprite. Air Canada was also ordered to apologize to Mr. Thibodeau and his wife Lynda. It is Mr. Thibodeau’s second successful legal action against the airline and its subsidiaries. In 2000, he was refused service in French when he tried to order a 7Up from a unilingual English flight attendant on an Air Ontario flight from Montreal to Ottawa. Mr. Thibodeau...

Air Canada threatens to pull NHL sponsorship By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) -- In an unusually public faceoff between a pro sports league and one of its major sponsors, Air Canada has threatened to pull support for the National Hockey League, saying that violent play on the ice hurts the airline's brand image.

Sleeping passenger left on plane at YVR British passenger discovered by mechanic at YVR 1½ hours later; airline apologizes for gaff, saying flight attendant was preoccupied with wheelchairs By Damian Inwood, The ProvinceApril 6, 2010 Kris Lines says he was left alone on a plane for 90 minutes after landing in Vancouver. A British law professor is slamming Air Canada after the airline left him asleep on a plane for 90 minutes after it landed -- and he woke up in a hangar at Vancouver International Airport. He says he's not satisfied with the airline's explanation that the flight attendant...

The flag carrier, and its regional airline Jazz, will allow customers to book a space under their seats for a pet for travel from July 1. They will pay $50 (£30) for a domestic flight in North America or $100 for international flights. Owners must stow pets in leakproof carriers weighing in total no more than 10kg (22lb). A maximum of four pets will be carried per flight. An Air Canada spokesman said it would consider the needs of passengers with allergies when allocating seats. The carriage of pets is not allowed on flights to or from Britain. Next month...

The announcement Air Canada passengers all too frequently hear at the beginning of their domestic flights is solemn and respectful. It tells them their flight is also carrying a deceased member of the Forces home to his or her family. But the respect afforded fallen personnel begins long before passengers board. At Toronto Pearson International Airport, there are only two things that can bring an entire operating ramp to a halt: lightning, and a fallen member of the CF being carried home. The Air Canada Cargo team at Toronto Pearson has long had a respectful process in place for the...

<p>Fox news ran stories last night based on some of the things we were tracking right here in this post. Here is their on line story.</p> <p>As unfinished as my research is, I feel compelled to release what I've found so far as the story cannot wait any longer.  I am not looking for a scoop on anyone or anything, but at the same time I don't want anyone thinking I made this stuff up after the fact either.</p>

Harried family forgets tot in Vancouver airport Air Canada staff took care of boy while father flew back from Winnipeg The Associated Press updated 9:54 a.m. CT, Wed., May. 14, 2008 VANCOUVER, British Columbia - An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the boy's father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as he, his wife and two grandparents of the child, J.M., were scrambling between their arrival in Canada and a connecting flight to Winnipeg on Air...

Air Canada will have to wait at least two years longer than originally expected to take delivery of its first 787 Dreamliner, the airline revealed on Thursday. The Boeing Co. has told Air Canada that it will deliver the first of the 37 aircraft it has on order at least 24 to 30 months later than the carrier had previously expected, at the earliest in January 2012. Air Canada will be seeking compensation from Boeing for the delays, Montie Brewer, Air Canada chief executive, told a conference call on Thursday. In April, Boeing announced that the first deliveries of the...

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Co-pilot 'falling ill' forces Air Canada emergency landing The co-pilot of an Air Canada flight from Toronto to London has been placed in psychiatric care in an Irish hospital after the plane made an emergency landing Monday, say reports. Air Canada didn't provide details, but said the flight made an emergency landing in Shannon, Ireland, on Monday morning local time after the co-pilot fell ill. The Irish Independent said flight staff and a passenger who was a member of the Canadian Forces removed the co-pilot from the plane after it landed at Shannon Airport. Officials at the Irish airport confirmed...

TORONTO, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- An Air Canada co-pilot reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown on a flight from Toronto and was in an Irish psychiatric unit Tuesday, Irish media said. Air Canada Flight 848 departed Sunday night for London but the pilot decided to make an emergency landing Monday morning in Shannon, Ireland, after his co-pilot began "acting in a peculiar manner and was talking loudly to himself," a source told The Irish Independent. The source said the co-pilot had to be physically restrained by flight crew and a passenger reportedly belonging to the Canadian military. Air Canada spokesman Peter...

The YouTube poster says this occurred during a December 6th flight from Toronto to London, England. Repeated calls by Breitbart.tv to Air Canada for additional information have not been returned.

A court in India has sentenced to death seven men convicted of attacking the American cultural centre in Calcutta in January 2002. Those convicted include Aftab Ahmed Ansari, who the judge said had planned the attack in which five policemen were killed and nearly 20 others injured. Two other men were acquitted for lack of evidence. The attack heightened tensions in South Asia, coming just weeks after a bloody raid on India's parliament. India accused Pakistan of having a link to both attacks which was strongly denied by Islamabad. Although India still supports the death penalty it is rarely carried...

With the bombshells being dropped on the Air India inquiry, the biggest question is why the answers have taken so long. The reality is that successive governments resisted a real examination of the most massive loss of Canadian life in history. Would this stonewalling have happened if the majority of Air India passengers had been white? Would police and politicians have minimized the gravity of the situation? The answer is no. As a country, we like to consider ourselves as colour blind and take pride in the harmony in cultural diversity of Canada. REVELATIONSBut the stunning revelations from the Air...

SEATTLE - Air Canada says it has exercised options and purchase rights to order 23 Boeing 787s. At average list prices the order would be worth about $3.7 billion. Air Canada now has 37 of the new mid-size widebody planes on order and says it's the largest North American customer for the new plane Boeing is rolling out this summer at the Everett factory.

Some gun and hunting groups are boycotting Air Canada after the airline imposed a $50 surcharge on passengers who check their firearms as baggage. The one-way handling fee went into effect on June 5 for tickets purchased on or after April 14, adding $100 to the cost of a return trip. Air Canada says the surcharge will cover the cost of making sure firearms are declared, unloaded and secured in a case that cannot be easily broken into during transport. The country's largest airline charges the same fee for bulky items such as bicycles and surfboards, but other sports items...

MONTREAL, Nov. 9 /CNW Telbec/ - ACE Aviation Holdings Inc., the parent company of Air Canada, today announced that the carrier has concluded an agreement with The Boeing Company for the acquisition of up to 36 Boeing 777s and up to 60 Boeing 787 Dreamliners. Air Canada recently re-engaged discussions with Boeing after having obtained a satisfactory outcome with the airline's pilot group on costs and other issues that allowed the carrier to move forward on a sound economic basis with the modernization of its international wide-body fleet. The agreement includes firm orders for 18 Boeing 777s, plus purchase rights...

Air Canada is reviving a $6-billion (U.S.) order for new Boeing aircraft after an arbitrator upheld a tentative labour contract previously rejected by the airline's pilots. The Montreal-based carrier said yesterday that a binding decision by arbitrator Martin Teplitsky clears the way for new talks to reorder up to 32 new jets from Boeing Co. Chicago-based Boeing has already scrubbed three delivery slots in 2006 that had been booked by Air Canada, but the two companies now plan to devise a new schedule, aiming for first delivery in 2007, an industry source said. Air Canada announced its original Boeing order...