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Airband

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  1. UK take on airport testing seems to be 'You're clear, but not good to go (without quarantine)'
  2. Relax guy, relax. Most here have an IQ above 8 and could figure it out if it were ever to be an issue.
  3. Dunno, might be too late. Understand they've already got a national anthem....
  4. Under the CTA there is a requirement to provide notice of discontinuance (120 days - less in some circumstances) but no obligation to maintatin service.
  5. Standing by for a 'Covid Recovery Fee' showing up on bills across a wide spectrum of businesses (with no accounting on how they arrived at it).
  6. The search for more debris and remains will continue over the next few days.
  7. 'While WestJet is posting public notices online regarding passengers on their planes who have subsequently tested positive for the sometimes-deadly virus, Air Canada is not'
  8. “I think that we have all learned in the last year some very important lessons,“ Mr. Garneau said.
  9. Ethiopian Ministry of Transport Interim Accident Investigation Report for Flight ET302 - B737 Max 8
  10. Flight attendant's insensitive remarks not a firing offence: Arbitrator
  11. Blind spots: How the Boeing 737 Max disasters exposed flaws in Canada’s reliance on U.S. aviation policy
  12. fwiw: 'Aviation experts defend safety record of type of plane used in Saskatchewan crash'
  13. "We can't get 20-plus years out of an old guy the way you could with a new guy,"
  14. . What the Avro Arrow should have taught Ottawa about the F-35 Thursday, April 5, 2012 - Globe and Mail by Harry Swain Harry Swain is a former federal deputy minister of Industry Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada A Tory prime minister, secure in his majority but highly suspicious of his political enemies, finds himself blind-sided by obscure processes in the departments of Defence and Industry that had gravitated to the most advanced fighter plane in the world -- but one that cost more than the country could afford. It was fifty years ago, the prime minister was John Diefenbaker, and the plane was the Avro Arrow. Bowing to fiscal reality affected the next election, and started a national myth of loss and betrayal as persistent as the National Energy Policy or the humiliation of Quebec. The parallels to the F-35 are eerie, but there are important differences. The basic story of vested interests in both the public and private sectors reinforcing each others’ dreams of the biggest, baddest fighter in the whole world and devil take the taxpayer’s dollars is the same, as is prevarication and mendacity when the truth about cost starts to leak out. Both governments, half a century apart, initially defended their establishments while privately getting more and more alarmed about the financial cost of continuing versus the political costs of cancellation. But there are some important differences, too. The F-35 does not have a big maple leaf on it, nor is it a vehicle for nationalist pride. Despite the fiction that we and the other non-U.S. buyers had an important role in design and development, we were in fact merely decorative afterthoughts in a U.S.-dominated process. And a large Canadian industrial base will not have to be stood down if the F-35 is cancelled or subjected to competition. 'Both aircraft were obsolete the day they first flew.' .
  15. Actually went into effect June 1st this year with relatively muted grumbling. Citizens more concerned right now with (full) plastic garbage bags beginning to mount in city parks due outside workers strike. An FYI on reusables.
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