Sunwing Focused on Repatriation
On Tuesday, Sunwing announced that it was shifting its efforts to focus solely on repatriating customers who are currently in destination. As a result, the carrier has temporarily suspended all southbound flights from March 17 until April 9...
FLYGTA Ready To Help With Relief Flights
FLYGTA is ready to help Canadians return home during the COVID -19 pandemic and increasing border closures by the Government of Canada. The airline's team and private jets are available to bring back stranded passengers from the U.S,...
Transat Suspending Flights
Transat A.T. Inc. will be gradually suspending Air Transat flights until April 30. The company said that its decision follows the Canadian government's announcement that the country is closing its borders to foreign nationals, as well as...
Air Canada Has A Plan
Air Canada offered an update on its response to COVID-19, noting that like the rest of the global airline industry, it is facing a severe drop in traffic and a corresponding decline in revenue as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak...
Tags: Air Canada, COVID-19
Canada Closing Its Borders
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians that Canada was closing its borders to people who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of this country. The only exception to the new rules were for diplomats, flight crews and US...
Tags: COVID-19
IATA Applauds EU Suspension Of Slot Rules
IATA is welcoming the announcement by the European Commission (EC) granting the temporary suspension until June 2020 of the 80-20 “use it or lose it” rule for airport slots. The decision reflects the unprecedented situation facing the...
WestJet Suspending Transborder, International Flights For 30 Days
WestJet has announced that it will be suspending “scheduled commercial operations” of all its international and transborder flights for a 30-day period as of Sun., March 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm MDT. In a statement on its website, the...
COVID-19 Update: A Message From Ontario Registrar
Ontario Registrar Has A Message On COVID-19 In a message to Ontario travel industry registrants, TICO CEO and registrar, Richard Smart writes: “These are unprecedented and dire times for travellers and the entire travel industry. Our...
Tags: Air Canada Vacations, COVID-19, Sunwing, TICO
Rendez-vous Canada 2020 Cancelled
Rendez-vous Canada 2020 has been cancelled. In a message to the industry, posted on the Rendez-vous Canada website, Destination Canada's chair, Ben Cowan-Dewar and the Tourism Industry Association of Canada's president and CEO, Charlotte Bell,...
Tags: COVID-19, Rendez-vous Canada 2020
Operators, Destinations Take Action
With senior health officials across Canada advising Canadians not to travel over March Break – and if they do and take their children, they will have to keep them out of school for 14 days – the travel industry here in Canada and around the...
Tags: COVID-19