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WestJet cancelled dozens of flights across the country Saturday, as the deadline looms for potential strike action by thousands of the airline’s flight attendants. And in the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta, the death toll has risen after more than 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco. While the United States and Iran trade strikes in the...

Tonight, an extraordinary story about an Air Canada pilot accused of flying tens of thousands of passengers for years, despite not having the proper credentials. Fifty-nine-year-old Geoffrey Wall of Barrie, Ont., was charged with fraud and forgery. Police say he used forged documents to deceive Air Canada and Transport Canada into believing he had an...

American airline JetBlue comes under fire for alleged surveillance pricing and how a crypto scam targeted ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Mike Agerbo of Get Connected Media breaks down the week’s top tech stories.

There’s been another incident with an Air Canada flight at a New York airport. On Monday, an Air Canada jazz flight from Toronto to John F. Kennedy International Airport narrowly avoided a collision when an American Airlines regional jet veered into its path on final approach.

Canada has issued a travel advisory for Mexico, urging Canadians to keep a low profile, monitor local media and follow the advice of local authorities. The U.S. government has also advised Americans to shelter in place in Jalisco state amid ongoing violence. Several airlines have suspended or adjusted service, with WestJet diverting and cancelling flights...

James Van Der Beek, the American actor known for his roles in ’90s TV drama ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and movie ‘Varsity Blues’, died on Wednesday after a battle with Stage 3 colorectal cancer. Also, we have the latest on the shortage of jet fuel in Cuba, as several Canadian airlines have cancelled their flights to the...

Canadian airlines cut U.S. flight capacity by more than 14 per cent year over year in the final quarter of 2025, with no rebound in sight. Political tensions and U.S. trade policies have pushed carriers to shift capacity instead toward the Caribbean and South America.

At 6 a.m. Friday, airlines in the U.S. began cancelling flights in accordance with the FAA’s official order to reduce service at America’s busiest airports. The agency said the cutbacks are necessary to relieve pressure on air traffic controllers who’ve been working without pay for more than a month due to the government shutdown. Many...

An apparent “landing gear problem” resulted in the prompt evacuation of an American Airlines plane in Denver, Colo. on Saturday. The Boeing 737 was just minutes away from taking off to Miami when a loud bang was reported and smoke started bellowing from the vessel’s underside. Passengers flew down the evacuation slides and scurried off...

New video released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows the moment American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter collided in the skies above Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2025. The video, which was released on the first day of a three-day hearing, shows the plane approaching the runway when the helicopter intercepts...

JetBlue, Southwest and Delta lead the pack in J.D. Power’s annual ranking of top North American airlines while Air Canada and WestJet struggle. Anne Gaviola has more on why Canada’s two largest carriers failed to impress passengers across the continent, yet again.

A North Texas Muslim said American Airlines cancelled his flight Saturday because the flight crew didn’t feel comfortable with him and his Muslim friend on the plane.

It was a close call for an American Airlines Airbus taking off from New York’s JFK Airport that “nearly crashed” last week after its wing scraped along the runway and took out a sign and a light pole.

All 157 people on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight were killed on March 10, nearly five years ago. It was the second crash involving the Boeing MAX-8 in less than a year. Five months earlier, a Lion Air flight went down off the coast of Indonesia. In the 72 hours that followed the tragedy in...

Canada’s big two airlines, Air Canada and WestJet, saw more of their flights delayed this summer compared to their American peers. Global’s Anne Gaviola and The Peak Podcast’s Brett Chang discuss why this news is so troubling, and what this means for travellers. Plus, Elon Musk has given Twitter a branding makeover, saying farewell to...

Sun, Sep 11: In Gander, Newfoundland on Sunday hundreds gathered to mark the solemn anniversary of 9/11. On September 11, community members opened their homes to thousands of grounded airline passengers when flights were grounded across North America. Ross Lord reports.

Travel chaos is being felt across North America, with the busy long weekend holiday notorious for creating travel headaches as millions hit the roads and skies to celebrate with friends and family. But a computer scheduling glitch at American Airlines and a nationwide pilot shortage has led to an unusually high number of flight cancellations,...

American senators and some grieving families of Boeing plane crash victims lashed out at company CEO Dave Calhoun at a hearing in Washington, where he testified about safety issues and offered an apology. Jackson Proskow speaks with the family of Danielle Moore, a Canadian killed in a 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash; and reports on an...

The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all Boeing 737 MAX jets in the U.S., making it the last country to ban the model. These planes are American-made. As Jackson Proskow reports, there could be growing concerns about American regulators, and of American investigators probing the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

Air Canada has found itself at the bottom of a list by aviation data company Cirium, for its punctuality among North America’s ten largest airlines. As Cassidy Mosconi reports, only 63.17% of its flights arrived at the gate within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival times.