Boeing’s 2017 Pilot and Technician Outlook is projecting a demand for more than 1.2-million pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support the world’s growing commercial airplane fleet. Boeing forecasts that between 2017 and 2036, the world’s commercial aviation industry will require approximately: 637,000 new commercial airline pilots 648,000 new commercial airline maintenance […]
San Diego’s kids-free month means substantial savings for families
For the sixth year in a row, during the month of October 2017, more than 100 San Diego hotels, restaurants, attractions, museums and transportation companies will offer families with children a variety of unique kids-free incentives. These incentives include complimentary admission to select attractions, meals, welcome amenities at area hotels and much more. San Diego […]
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YVR air traffic update: January – June 2017
Passenger numbers at YVR have demonstrated a successful first half of the year with continued growth across all major sectors, including a record-breaking spike in travellers from the Latin American market. More than 418,000 passengers from Latin America have travelled through YVR in the first six months of 2017, a 25.2 per cent year-over-year increase. […]
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Delta, Air France-KLM, Virgin Atlantic to launch combined joint venture
Delta Air Lines is deepening its longstanding and industry-leading partnership with Air France-KLM Group with a 375-million-euro (approximately $559-million) investment to acquire 10 per cent equity in the joint venture partner and a seat on the Air France-KLM Group Board of Directors. Additionally, Delta, Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic will launch a combined long-term joint […]
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WestJet to launch Huatulco, Mexico service
Starting October 29, 2017, WestJet will launch a seasonal weekly service between YVR and Bahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX), Mexico.This new route will also include increased service from YVR to Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray, Alberta; Fort St. John, B.C.; Cabo San Lucas, Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The YVR-HUX route will be operated […]
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Canadian coalition of lawyers and advocates staff airports to ensure immigrants with valid visas can get to the U.S.
The Canadian Cross-Border Legal Coalition has deployed volunteer lawyers and advocates to major airports across Canada to ensure that anyone with valid documentation is not banned from travel to the United States because of the January 27, 2017 U.S. executive order, halting travel from seven countries. A federal judge in Washington state temporarily halted the […]
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San Francisco celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love
Long stamped a literary bohemia and attracting nonconformists like the Beat Generation writers of the Fifties to musicians and artists and social rebels in the mid-to-late Sixties, it was logical that free-thinking San Francisco would give birth to a radical new movement eventually embraced by the rest of the world. In 1967, nearly 100,000 free-spirited […]
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Delta to fly rare B717 to YVR, starting summer 2017
It may not be hot off the assembly line or a next-gen aircraft like some of the more recent first-ever aircraft to land at YVR, but the Boeing 717 with its fascinating history will start making weekly flights between Vancouver and Los Angeles every Saturday starting this summer. This will make it the first this time this rare bird will make […]
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New Air Canada daily service to Dallas, Texas
The inaugural flight of Air Canada’s new route between YVR and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) began on February 5, 2017. The nonstop year-round service will arrive at YVR daily and is timed strategically to connect DFW travellers to Air Canada’s Asian flights out of YVR. “This signals the growing trend of airlines taking […]
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Central Mountain ceasing Comox-Vancouver flights
Effective February 22, 2017, Central Mountain Air will discontinue daily between Vancouver and Comox. Cemtral Mountain Air currently serves the Comox Valley Airport with up to seven daily return flights Monday to Friday from Vancouver to Comox and up to three daily flights on weekends, using Beechcraft 1900D aircraft. The decision to ground the flights […]
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Celebrating 40 years of service to the Yukon
Air North, also known as Yukon’s Airline, celebrated 40 years of service on February 1, 2017. Founded in 1977 by Joe Sparling and Tom Wood as Air North Charter and Training, the original intent was to offer charters around the Yukon to the mining industry and flight training services. However, it didn’t take long for […]
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From Lodestarts to Jets: Photo history of AC/TCA airline
