Airlines
Alghabra Looking To Make Changes To APPR
Canada’s Transport Minister, Omar Alghabra made it clear yesterday that the “circumstances Canadians faced during the holiday season were unacceptable” and that they deserve answers about what happened. During Transport Committee hearings looking into the events that took place over the holiday season, Alghabra also made it clear that Canadians deserve to be kept informed about alternative arrangements when their travel is disrupted and that they also deserve to be “compensated when their rights have been violated.” He said: “Upholding the rights of travellers is … a...
Canada Jetlines Partners with TRAVELKORE
Canada Jetlines Operations Ltd has announced that it is partnering with TRAVELKORE – a leading travel safety and travel healthcare services digital platform. Through this partnership, travelers will gain access to a unique digital safety application, healthcare services, and health products at home, or at their preferred destination. The TRAVELKORE digital platform in conjunction with the CAREKORE digital health platform is globally available to travellers, providing access to free travel safety resources, including access to Medicine and Vaccine Checkers, as well as access to...
AC Announces Retirement of Lucie Guillemette
Air Canada has announced the retirement of Lucie Guillemette, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. Guillemette, who is responsible for the airline's commercial strategies, will retire at the end of April 2023, ending a highly successful career touching five decades at Canada's flag carrier. The airline also announced a realigned senior management structure taking effect with Guillemette's departure. Mark Nasr, Senior Vice President, Products, Marketing and eCommerce, will become Executive Vice President Marketing and Digital, and President of...
Discover The Spirit Of Fiji
Tourism Fiji's Ruth Daly says visiting her destination can truly be a family affair. Daly, regional director at the tourism board's Los Angeles office, told a Baxter Media webcast that her South Pacific destination is a particularly welcoming place, adding there's a "spirit on Fiji that everyone is family … You arrive as a visitor but you leave family." Visiting families will find "amazing" family programs, she continued. Tropical Fiji is home to some 333 islands, about 110 of them inhabited. Those visiting the inhabited ones will encounter Fijian culture everywhere, with...
Porter Airlines Unveils New Inflight Offering
Porter Airlines has unveiled details of its updated premium in-flight service offering, with an emphasis on partnering with high-quality Canadian brands. The carrier continues to elevate economy air travel for everyone in its greatly expanding network. Coinciding with the airline’s strategy to grow in markets throughout North America using new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, as well as its existing De Havilland Dash 8-400 fleet, travellers will enjoy a new level of generosity and thoughtful service that is non-existent in economy air travel today. The new aircraft and in-flight amenities...
Swoop Takes Off To Cuba
Swoop has inaugurated service between Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport (YYZ) and Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport in Varadero, Cuba (VRA). Bob Cummings, President of Swoop, said: “As Canada's favourite sun and fun ultra-low-cost carrier, we are thrilled to celebrate our launch into Cuba. Varadero is widely known as a Canadian favourite for affordable beach vacations, and so we're proud to provide Torontonians a new ultra-convenient, ultra-not-expensive option for travel to Playa Azul.” Ontarians looking for a pre-packaged vacation to an all-inclusive...
Canada Jetlines Partners With TripAdmit
Canada Jetlines Operations Ltd is partnering with TripAdmit, the online booking system providing passengers with the ability to select and book from a full range of tours and activities in the destinations served by the airline. TripAdmit has produced a fully customized white label solution for Canada Jetlines, utilizing powerful booking software and AI technology for personalized segmentation – with the aim to maximize ancillary revenue opportunities from the sale of activities to Jetlines’ passengers. The news of the new partnership comes following Canada Jetlines’...
Come Back Changed
Come Back Changed. That’s the message of Air Transat’s newly launched promotional campaign. Inspired by the belief that travel has transformative powers, the campaign aims to demonstrate the importance of travel and its ability to transform not only our way of being by expanding our horizons, but also our state of mind. The campaign also supports the airline's new brand positioning and its tagline -- Travel Moves Us. Developed in collaboration with creative agency Sid Lee, the campaign features a short video featuring Maggie, a traveller who has just returned from a trip...