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Web page | 2021-01-22
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic – and the global collapse of air travel that resulted in mass flight cancellations – have highlighted a gap in Canada's air passenger protection framework: the absence of a requirement for airlines to refund tickets when flights are cancelled, or where there is a...
Web page | 2020-12-21
Q1- Why is the CTA holding this consultation?
The COVID-19 pandemic – and the global collapse of air travel that resulted in mass flight cancellations – have highlighted a gap in Canada's air passenger protection framework.
The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) now has the authority, through a...
Web page | 2020-12-21
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the National Airlines Council of Canada (NACC), Air Canada and Sunwing Airlines (Sunwing) have asked the Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) to temporarily adjust certain compensation and rebooking requirements under the Air Passenger...
Web page | 2020-12-11
What is new? A milestone.
On October 26, 2020, the Canadian Transportation Agency issued the first licence in Canada for a drone cargo delivery service .
I am a drone operator thinking about providing drone services. Do I need a licence?
If you plan to operate a publicly available air service to...
Web page | 2020-12-03
Enabling act(s)
Canada Transportation Act
Description
The objective of the proposed initiative is to improve clarity and consistency, correct minor errors, repeal obsolete provisions, and make targeted adjustments to air-related regulations that were part of the CTA's Regulatory Modernization...
Web page | 2020-09-04
In 2019–20, the CTA worked with government partners at the Canadian mission to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) during both the ICAO General Assembly and sessions of the Facilitation Panel (FALP) to raise the profile of accessibility in air travel.
The CTA led efforts to...
Web page | 2020-08-26
The CTA created an International Working Group (IWG) to develop recommendations for future action related to issues around the safe storage and transportation of wheelchairs and other mobility aids and hosted an international forum in June 2018. IWG members included airlines and their trade...
Web page | 2020-08-26
Accessible transportation is an essential part of modern life and important for all Canadians. About one in five of Canadians has a disability, and this proportion is growing as the average age of the population rises.
Air travel is global – but from one country to another, there are different...
Web page | 2020-08-26
Reference is made to the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, done at Montreal, on May 28, 1999 (Montreal Convention), which came into force on November 4, 2003 for international carriage between Canada and countries that have ratified the Convention....
Web page | 2019-12-24