MONTREAL, QUEBEC – During the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, athletes won’t be the only ones taking home the gold. The Flexjet 25 (i) Jet Card program and Jet Set Sports-an official supporter of the 2010 Winter Games-are teaming up to offer a limited-edition package for an unforgettable journey through next year’s premier event. […]

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A Germania Airlines Boeing 737 landed safetly Wednesday after a striking a flock of birds on take off. The Daily Mail says 200 starlings were ingested by the right engine of the aircraft as it took off from Dusseldorf enroute to Kosovo with 80 people on board.

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PLAYA VISTA, CA-    On October 4, 2009, the X PRIZE Foundation will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the largest prize in history, the $10 Million Ansari X PRIZE — won by the Mojave Aerospace Ventures team for the historic flights of SpaceShipOne. Led by famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan and backed […]

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LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC –  Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) will reduce its global workforce by approximately 250 employees by year’s end to align with a projected decline in customer demand and weakness in the global aerospace market with no signs of a recovery in 2010. P&WC is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: […]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new surveillance system introduced by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Colorado allows air traffic controllers to track aircraft not covered by radar in remote, mountainous regions.
“The new system, called Wide-Area Multilateration, lets us see aircraft we couldn’t see before due to the rugged terrain,” said FAA […]

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A small aircraft that crashed Saturday afternoon in Maple Ridge, B.C. encountered some kind of engine failure, officials said.
Bill Yearwood of the Transportation Safety Board said that engine failure caused some parts of the engine covers to blow off during flight.

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Columns of thick black smoke were visible coming from the Prince George Airport this week.

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Canada and the US have reached a “tentative agreement in principle” over a dispute that recently erupted over charter flights. The dispute threatened to disrupt the travel plans of teams in the National Hockey League.

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NAV CANADA, the country’s provider of civil air navigation services, will be installing a new AWOS at Prince George, BC. CYXS

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MEMPHIS, TN – Pinnacle Airlines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corp. (NASDAQ: PNCL), and the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) have reached a tentative agreement to amend the contract covering the Airline’s 1,250 Pilots. The agreement is the result of contract talks that began in 2005. Pinnacle Pilots must now ratify […]

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