Transat operations remain severely curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Air Transat said it is scrubbing routes that were slated to take off from Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria.

Air Transat is looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its airplanes by using jet fuel made from kerosene in a process that captures carbon dioxide produced by large industrial emitters.

As Manitoba continues to open up amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Winnipeg Airports Authority is cautiously optimistic about the future of the air travel industry.

The Montreal-based company grounded all flights in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The company says it will remove some 600 daily flights from its schedule between May 5 and June 4 about 18,000 trips in total, due to "significantly reduced guest demand" during the crisis.

The decision extends the suspension of more than 160 Air Canada routes as well as Air Transat and Sunwing trips by another month as closed borders and vanishing travel demand continue to ravage the airline industry.

An Edmonton couple is home and in self-isolation after facing several challenges in trying to fly out of Mexico.

The individual who tested positive had travelled on Air Transat flight TS2653 from Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic on March 18.

In a release on Monday morning, the company said a total of 3,600 people will be out of a job for now, including all of its flight crew staff.