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10
May

Travel Alert from Air Canada: Spain/Portugal – Due to volcanic activity, flights may be impacted.

Air Canada and Jazz advise that flights to, from or connecting through the airport(s) listed below may be delayed or cancelled due to the event described. Alicante, Spain (ALC) Barcelona, Spain (BCN) Bilbao, Spain (BIO) Madrid, Barajas , Spain (MAD) Palma, Palma Mallorca, Spain (PMI) Valencia, Spain (VLC) Malaga, Spain (AGP) Lisbon, Portugal (LIS) Oporto, […]

27
Apr

Avoid non-essential travel to Bangkok: Dept of Foreign Affairs

OFFICIAL WARNING: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada advises against non-essential travel to and within Bangkok due to ongoing large-scale political demonstrations, which have been marked by violence, death, and injury. A state of emergency remains in effect. The security situation is very volatile with significant potential for further civil unrest, violent clashes, and attacks. […]

8
Apr

Porter Airlines cancels several flights for April 8, 2010

The Porter Flight numbers cancelled today are: 246 247 250 252 382 404 407 414 936

12
Mar

British Airways Unnon announces strike

guardian.co.uk, Friday March 12 2010 More than 500,000 BA passengers face strike disruption this month after the Unite trade union announced walkouts over two consecutive weekends, prompting BA to withdraw a last-ditch peace offer. Unite trade union has called a series of strikes over two consecutive weekends this month, beginning with a three-day walkout on […]

22
Jan

Terror alert: Plan to hijack Indian plane

Pranab Dhal Samanta Posted: Jan 22, 2010 at 0250 hrs New Delhi India has put all Air India/Indian Airlines flights operating in South Asia on high security alert after specific intelligence was received on Thursday that Islamic fundamentalist groups aligned to the Al-Qaeda or the Lashkar-e-Toiba plan to hijack one such flight. According to intelligence […]

8
Jan

WestJet Carry On Changes

On December 25, a passenger travelling on a Delta Airlines flight from Europe to the U.S. attempted to detonate an explosive device. While this flight landed safely, the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) have implemented a no carry-on baggage policy to speed up the security screening […]