The sale of its CRJ aircraft series paves the way for Bombardier to focus on its one remaining income stream: private jets.

Air Canada, which hasn't flown a plane into or out of London, Ont., for the last several weeks, will begin offering the flights starting June 22.

The company says it is temporarily laying off 2,600 of its 10,500 employees and placing another 900 employees on a reduced work week.

At 19, Richard Reid persuaded his mother to loan him the $2,700 required to buy a vintage 1946 Aeronca Champion — two-seater plane that was sitting for sale on an airstrip.

The Alberta Aviation Museum in Edmonton hosted its seventh annual Women of Aviation Worldwide Week event on Saturday.

In honour of National Aviation Day and the 111th anniversary of powered flight in Canada, Calgarians headed to the Hangar Flight Museum to celebrate on Sunday.

Bombardier shares fell 22 cents to a low of $1.43 in late-afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The FAA, however, advised U.S. carriers to “exercise caution and avoid operating” near the boundaries of the Tehran flight information region “whenever possible.”

"He was angry that I reclined my seat and punched it about nine times," one passenger wrote on Twitter.

A WestJet flight headed from Calgary to London, U.K. was turned around shortly after departing on Wednesday night.