Preferred Seating options expanded on Air Canada’s North American flights

Air Canada now offers an enhanced Preferred Seats program, which offers customers the choice of more seats with additional legroom aboard its North American flights. The program also makes it easier to book a Preferred Seat through multiple channels, including the web, airport kiosks and mobile devices. Preferred Seats typically provide 88.9 centimetres of legroom […]

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Exquisite Cessna wins top award at 2014 Goodwood Revival

An exquisite Cessna 195 Business Liner was named the winner at the annual Freddie March Spirit of Aviation Exhibition presented by Eve at the 2014 Goodwood Revival in England. The 1949 aircraft, which was the first to be produced by Cessna in all-aluminium form, came out on top as a panel of expert judges, which […]

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Thermoplastic markings installed on YVR’s Taxiway Lima

Vancouver Airport Authority has installed new thermoplastic markings to one of its main taxiways (Taxiway Lima), which will replace the paint used in the past. Thermoplastic might sound futuristic and complex, but it’s essentially surface markings that are pre-cut and pre-coloured signs that form a strong bond with the concrete upon application to the taxiway. […]

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Future Travel Experience: What Apple Watch could mean for airports and airlines

Story courtesy Future Travel Experience Apple has launched its long-awaited smartwatch, named the Apple Watch (not the iWatch as many expected), and the consumer tech world has since been going crazy, with many asking if this is the product that will send wearable technology into the mainstream. The sheer level of interest, the largely positive […]

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China Airlines A350

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Virgin Galactic and Land Rover launch Trip to Space competition

Four aspiring astronauts will have the opportunity to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip to space in Land Rover’s Galactic Discovery competition. The winners will be among the first pioneering travellers to view the earth from space and experience out-of-seat zero gravity. The Virgin Galactic space flight prize was announced to audiences around the world through a […]

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Upcycling airplane leather into shoes and soccer balls

After a recent large-scale redesign of many of its 737 aircraft, U.S.-based Southwest Airlines found itself with an excess of 80,000 leather seat covers—enough to fill the Empire State Building. The replacement of leather seat coverings with a durable lightweight material was done in order to reduce aircraft weight—272 kilograms per plane—and thus fuel consumption. […]

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Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic touched down at YVR in May 2012.

Virgin Atlantic flights to Vancouver ended October 11, 2014

Virgin Atlantic’s summer seasonal direct service from Vancouver to London Heathrow service ended on October 11, 2014. Virgin previously operated five flights per week from Vancouver, its only Canadian destination. Virgin is also ending service between London and Tokyo’s Narita airport; between London and Mumbai, India, on February 1; and winter seasonal service to Cape […]

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Canada Post opens state-of-the-art facility on Sea Island

Canada Post’s brand new state-of-the-art 65,000-square-metre Pacific Processing Centre (PPC) Sea Island facility is now open. As part of a nationwide postal transformation effort, which began in 2008, Canada Post relocated its operations from both the Vancouver Mail Processing Plant at West Georgia Street and the Vancouver Parcel Distribution Centre at No. 6 Road, Richmond, […]

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