EVA Air to boost Vancouver-Taiwan service from June 2014

By on January 9, 2014 in EVA Air

Beginning June 2014, Taiwanese airline EVA Air plans to add a fourth weekly flight on its Taipei Taoyuan-Vancouver route, using its Boeing 747-400 aircraft. Flights from Taipei will arrive in Vancouver at 7:40pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Departures from Vancouver leave at 2:20am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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YVR to welcome All Nippon Airways to Canada

By on January 9, 2014 in All Nippon Airways

It’s a new year, with 2014 marking the introduction of All Nippon Airways (ANA) new daily non-stop year-round service between YVR and Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND) on March 30, 2014. The new service marks ANA’s first flight to Canada. ANA’s new flight is expected to generate 356 jobs both at YVR and in B.C.’s hotels, […]

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JAL’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner on final approach to YVR

By on January 9, 2014 in Japan Air Lines

YVR ushered in the Year of the Dreamliner with Japan Airlines’ announcement that it will begin Boeing 787 operations on its daily non-stop service between YVR and Tokyo’s Narita Airport (NRT), beginning Monday, February 3, 2014. This inaugural will mark the first-ever scheduled arrival of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to YVR. “Metro Vancouver’s community of […]

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Canada re-opens parent and grandparent immigration program

By on January 9, 2014 in Government

Over the first six months of 2013, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) admitted 45,000 permanent residents to Canada in the Family Class (FC). This represented an increase of 40 per cent over the first six months of 2012. The increase has been attributed by CIC to a doubling of admissions in the Parent and Grandparent […]

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KLM Wannagives allows travellers to surprise family and friends

By on January 9, 2014 in KLM

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is now providing a unique gifting service KLM Wannagives on its intercontinental and long distance European flights. With this service KLM allows people to surprise a travelling friend or family member with a present at an altitude of 9,000 metres. Via the webshop klm.com/wannagives, KLM offers a varied assortment of attentions: […]

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Federal government proposes new electronic travel application

By on January 7, 2014 in Government

The Canadian Airports Council (CAC) is urging the federal government to take a “light touch” approach to its proposed electronic travel authorization (eTA) requirement, under which millions of visitors to Canada would have to successfully apply before arriving to Canada by air. Under the new rules, all foreign nationals travelling from visa exempt countries, other […]

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Full image of Smaug dragon graces Air New Zealand’s 777-300

By on January 7, 2014 in Air New Zealand

In celebration of the second movie in the Hobbit trilogy, Air New Zealand recently unveiled a 54-metre image of the dragon Smaug on one of its Boeing 777-300 aircraft. The unveiling was the first time fans got a chance to see director Peter Jackson’s interpretation of Smaug. In the first Hobbit movie, the director revealed […]

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Aviation Quotes

By on January 2, 2014 in Aviation Quotes

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind’s ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. — Igor Ivanovitch Sikorsky, comment on 20th anniversary of the helicopter’s first flight, September 13, 1959.

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California Restaurant Month spans 40 destinations in 2014

By on January 2, 2014 in Travel Features

Throughout January 2014, California restaurants are offering special restaurant week or month-long dining promotions that feature gourmet prix-fixe menus, wine-pairing opportunities and more as part of this Visit California-led promotion. The 11 new destinations for 2014 are Amador County, Calaveras County, Catalina Island, Escondido, Gilroy, South Lake Tahoe, Manhattan Beach, Stockton, Suisun City, Ventura and […]

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Boeing launches 777X with record-breaking orders

By on December 10, 2013 in Boeing

Boeing’s participation at the November 2013 Dubai Airshow was marked by the launch of the 777X—the world’s largest twin-engine jetliner—and the announcement of historic orders and new strategic agreements signed with key partners in the Middle East and around the world. Boeing chairman, president and chief executive officer Jim McNerney launched the 777X with 259 […]

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New aviation agreement between Canada and Taiwan

By on December 10, 2013 in Aviation News

An agreement signed between Taiwan and Canada in November 2013 will expand the number of direct flights between the two countries and increase available seating capacity Under the agreement signed by Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) director-general Jean Sen and Canadian Trade Office in Taipei executive director Kathleen Mackay, the number of passenger flights connecting […]

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