The court held that air passenger compensation under the Passenger Regulation is a statutory entitlement, not a debt, and dismissed the petition for lack of standing and jurisdiction.
The Federal Court struck Slave Lake Helicopters Ltd.’s claim for misfeasance in public office, finding insufficient material facts and no leave to amend.
The Federal Court dismissed Chrono Aviation’s stay motion against a night-flight ban at Saint-Hubert Airport, finding no convincing evidence of irreparable harm.
The Operating Agreement, viewed against the historical factual matrix and consistent with an implied easement, granted CAPL unimpeded access to the airport lands; Winterland therefore could not charge access/user fees tied to that right; Winterland failed to prove CAPL was underinsured; no reversible error in the application judge's factual findings or legal application, so the appeal is dismissed and costs awarded to the respondent.
The court dismissed Airside's petition for relief from forfeiture after finding repeated unauthorized subletting, unpermitted construction, refusal of inspections, and unclean hands.
Claimant voluntarily resigned but did not prove just cause because (1) the employment agreement and job description reasonably required upgrade to Captain before relocation so employer did not breach the contract; (2) scheduling practices did not breach flight duty regulations because on-call time did not qualify as flight duty period; (3) claimant did not have reasonable assurance of new employment because no start date was known; and (4) claimant had reasonable alternatives (wait for employer to respond, obtain firm start date or refuse unsafe flights). Therefore claimant was not entitled t…
The Agency's conclusion was clearly unreasonable because a private correspondence from a Baggage Claims Specialist to an individual passenger could not reasonably be characterized as a "public statement" under paragraph 18(b) of the Air Transportation Regulations; therefore the Agency's decision was set aside.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed the WCB’s appeal, upholding findings that Transport Canada owed no private duty of care and that the FTA AOC was valid.
The Federal Court of Appeal (majority) held the Agency's Decision No. 91-C-A-2016 was reasonable because the Agency permissibly interpreted its prior Decision No. 49-C-A-2016 as addressing the amount of compensation in Rule 87(B)(3)(B) rather than the separate conditions in Rule 87(B)(3)(A); because the exceptions in (A) were not the subject of the original complaint or prior proceedings, the Agency was reasonable to treat compliance as confined to the amount provision and to find British Airways' proposed wording compliant.