Airlines
Copa Takes Off In Toronto
Panama's Copa Airlines is reaching out to those wanting to visit the country it's based in and points elsewhere in Central or South America. Yolanda Molinuevo of Copa's Toronto office told a Wednesday gathering in the Ontario capital that her carrier links both Montreal and Toronto to the “hub of the Americas,” with connecting flights from Panama City available to many other points in Latin America and the Caribbean too. Among them is the Colombian capital of Bogota, with Copa having eight daily frequencies there, she said. Copa has four Montreal-Panama City flights a week and...
LOT Flights On Sale
LOT flights to Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest, Moscow and many other LOT destinations are on sale up to 50% off if booked until Sept. 13. LOT has prepared a total of half a million discounted airline tickets for flights within Europe, North America and Asia via all sales channels, including the standard web site at lot.com and its mobile version. It is LOT’s biggest promotional sale of this year. This year, for the first time, the promotional sale includes all the destinations operated by LOT. All flights from Canada to Warsaw are operated with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The special...
Air France Showcases ‘Best & Beyond’
At a special industry event held at Pearson International yesterday, Air France gave travel agents, media and other travel professionals a close-up look at its new Business Class cabin aboard a Boeing 777-200. Launched last year as part of Air France's “Best & Beyond” project, the new Business cabin is making a gradual entry into service on long-haul aircraft -- and now available to travellers flying out of Toronto to Paris Charles de Gaulle until Oct. 24. The goal of the Best & Beyond project is to upgrade its long-haul products and services and to provide the best...
Transat Expands Europe Program
With more flights, more seats and new connecting flights, as well as two new destinations – Croatia in Eastern Europe and Pisa in Italy – Transat is expanding its European portfolio for 2016. Air Transat will offer direct flights to a total of 29 destinations, including newly launched routes between Toronto and Nice, Montreal and Glasgow and Vancouver and Rome. Every Sunday beginning June 13, 2016 a direct flight for Pisa will take off from Toronto and Montreal while Zagreb in Croatia will be offered on Tuesdays as of June 15, 2016 direct from Toronto and via a connecting flight...
German Court Tells LH Pilots To End Strike
A German labour court has issued a temporary injunction ordering Lufthansa pilots to end their strike actions, according to multiple reports in the German media,. In making its ruling, the court described the strike action as “unlawful” because they were targeted at Lufthansa's plans to expand its budget airline subsidiaries, rather than dealing with wage issues, the media reports stated. Prior to the injunction being issued, strike action by the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots' union resulted in 1,000 flight cancellations which affected some 140,000 passengers. Lufthansa also...
WestJet Off To Houston
WestJet has launched new six times a week non-stop service between Calgary and Houston. Flights depart Calgary at 10:25 a.m. and arrive in Houston at 3:22 p.m. Return flights depart Houston at 5 p.m., arriving in Calgary at 8:08...
Strike Disrupts Lufthansa Service
Lufthansa has cancelled almost half of its long-haul flights today due to a planned pilots' strike. Reports say the airline is also expecting cancellations to its short-haul flights tomorrow (Sept. 9) due to the job action. Lufthansa says it will still operate 90 out of 170 planned long-haul flights and has published a special flight schedule to keep passengers up to date with cancellations. The pilots' union – Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) – is in a long-running dispute over pay, retirement benefits and cost cuts. Talks between VC and management broke down last week. Lufthansa...
Tourism “Irrepressible” Says ACI
The latest world airport traffic report is likely to provide yet more grist for the `rein-in-the-Gulf-carriers’ campaign being orchestrated by America’s Big Three carriers, reports Montreal editor, Mike Dunbar in this week's digital edition of Canadian Travel Press. The 2014 figures, from Airports Council International (ACI), show that Dubai has leapfrogged over London Heathrow to become the world’s busiest airport for international passenger traffic. According to the Montreal-based organization, DXB counted 69.9 million arriving, departing and direct transit passengers last...