Travel Industry News & Views for Canadian Travel Agents
Canada’s airlines and tour operators plan to resume flights to Cuba in JUN, according to Lessner Gomez, Director of the…
As Air Canada cruises down the runway with $6billion in aid, the feds are facing calls to extend a lifeline to other airlines, too.
Flair Airlines is expanding service with a new, non-stop route between Ottawa and Kelowna starting 04AUG, 2021, with flights on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Air Canada announced it is suspending most flights to sun destinations until JUN. Airlines and the feds had previously agreed to halt all flights to the Caribbean and Mexico until the end of this month. Other carriers have already extended their flight suspensions.
WestJet follows other airlines that have announced they are not resuming flights to sun destinations on 01MAY, as was expected after the federal government’s restrictions expire at the end of APR.
Air Canada held a virtual Town Hall for the trade on Tuesday to not only clarify the information on refunds for flights cancelled due to the pandemic, but to also announce a new policy where future flights cancelled by either the carrier or the passenger will be eligible for a refund, a future travel voucher or Aeroplan Points.
“In support of its travel agency partners, Air Canada will not retract agency sales commissions on refunded fares.” That line,…
On 19JUL, 1989, the federal government completed the sale of its 41.1 million shares in Air Canada – which represented…
The terms of the financial support Ottawa is providing Air Canada include restarting service to regional communities across Canada. Where…
The federal government will announce a long-awaited relief package for Air Canada and parts of the airline industry on Monday evening, sources have told The Globe and Mail.