Air Canada Employee Arrested For $15 Million Airport Gold Heist

A press conference with the truck allegedly used to move the stolen gold Photo: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star (Getty Images) Exactly a year after 6,600 bars of 99.99-percent pure gold were reported missing at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Peel Regional Police has announced multiple arrests in connection with the brazen heist seemingly ripped straight from the … Read more

College Student Flies To Campus To Avoid Paying Rent, And It Sort Of Makes Sense

As it turns out, renting has become so expensive everywhere that living over 400 miles from your college and commuting by plane a few times a week is actually cheaper than living near campus. What a miserable world we live in. Anyway, Tim Chen, an economics student in his final year at the University of … Read more

Why Airplane Tires Last Less Than 500 Landings

Photo: Jun Xu (Getty Images) An aircraft’s tires are usually an afterthought for most airline passengers. Despite only being on the ground for brief periods of time during most flights, planes still use their tires a great deal. Incredibly, aircraft tires rarely blow out but have relatively short lifespans. Ride Along in the 2024 Corvette … Read more

Air Canada must pay refund promised by AI chatbot, tribunal rules

Air Canada must pay a Vancouver man a partial refund for his flight ticket that was promised by the site’s chatbot, a Canadian tribunal ruled Wednesday, in what could be a landmark case for the use of artificial intelligence in business. Jake Moffatt asked the airline’s artificial intelligence support chatbot whether the airline offered bereavement … Read more

Air Canada Ordered To Pay Damages To Customer Who Was Misled By Its Chatbot

Air Canada said its chatbot was a “separate legal entity” (Representational) Air Canada, the largest airline in the North American country, was ordered to pay partial refund to a passenger after its chatbot provided inaccurate information, misleading the person into purchasing a full-price ticket. The airline even attempted to distance itself from the error and … Read more

Air Canada CEO grilled by MPs over accessibility services – National

Lawmakers took Air Canada‘s CEO to task on Monday over “shocking” and failures to accommodate passengers living with disabilities. At a House of Commons committee hearing on services for Canadians with disabilities, chief executive Michael Rousseau faced a barrage of questions over reports of passenger mistreatment in the past year. Conservative vice-chair Tracy Gray cited several incidents … Read more

Canadian airlines say they don’t operate aircraft model involved in Alaska Airlines incident – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadian airline operators say they do not fly the version of the Alaska Airlines aircraft that was grounded Friday after experiencing a blowout midair. The Minister of Transport’s office confirmed with Global News Saturday that there is no link with Canadian operators. “The (U.S Federal Aviation Administration) … Read more