Across the pages of a picture book, the northern lights dance over the Arctic landscape with brush strokes of bold colour, as caribou and muskox graze on the tundra and a bush pilot takes to the skies. As the pilot flies across the Mackenzie Delta, he rescues a stranded prospector from a blizzard, packs a […]
Sunwing has issued an apology to passengers left stranded after winter storms upended operations but says “most of our customers enjoyed their holidays with minimal disruption.” In a joint statement on Thursday, Sunwing Travel Group CEO Stephen Hunter and Sunwing Airlines president Len Corrado said they are “incredibly sorry for letting our customers down.” “We […]
Emergency protocols had to be followed after a Canadian Forces Snowbirds plane suffered what is believed to be a bird strike on Monday morning. Public affairs officer Captain Gabriel Ferris says the pilot did what was to be done and landed the aircraft safely. It was nearly a year ago that a bird strike resulted […]
A bird strike is being blamed as the cause of that fatal crash of a Snowbirds jet last May in Kamloops. A final report into the incident was released Monday morning. It concluded a single small bird was sucked into the engine of the plane just after it took off. That resulted in a […]
WestJet Airlines Ltd. says about 1,000 employees will be furloughed, temporarily laid off, put on unpaid leave or have their hours cut in the wake of new travel rules from the federal government. The airline also says it will cut about 30 per cent of its capacity for February and March and pull 160 domestic […]
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds have been flying across the country over the past few weeks and on Tuesday, they will hit Saskatchewan. The Snowbirds will go from Brandon to Moose Jaw with their flight path taking them past communities like Moosomin, Whitewood and Grenfell late Tuesday morning. TUESDAY FLYPASTS: Routes and times are subject to […]
It is not clear at this time exactly what happened, but a member of the Snowbirds, based at 15 Wing Moose Jaw, was forced to eject from his craft on Sunday before a scheduled performance in Atlanta. Snowbird 5, Capt Kevin Domon-Grenier was forced to eject from his aircraft shiortly before our performance in Atlanta […]
The Saskatchewan Airshow returned to 15 Wing Moose Jaw on Saturday after a lengthy hiatus. The first show in 14 years obviously had many people excited as there was a huge turnout. Unfortunately, the turnout was too many. Due to the size of the crowd, some who had tickets had to be turned away as […]
We are now learing the identity of the other two people killed on the weekend in a plane crash near the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. 27-year-old Justin Filteau, a former member of the Saskatoon Hilltops and U of S Husky football team and someone who worked with Football Saskatchewan, had already been identified. The other two were […]
