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March 17, 2021

Jazz Pilot Leadership Approves Agreement

Jazz Pilots Will Fly All 70+ Seat Aircraft Under The Air Canada Express Banner Until 2025

Sunday night, pilot leaders of Jazz Aviation, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) finalized an agreement with their management that enables the company to become the exclusive express operator for Air Canada. The pilots agreed to terms which enable revision of the capacity purchase agreement (CPA) between Jazz Aviation LP, and Air Canada. Under the agreement, Jazz pilots will fly all 70+ seat aircraft under the Air Canada Express banner until 2025. Jazz will add 25 Embraer 175s (76-seat aircraft) transferred from Sky Regional, while 19 Dash 8-300s will be removed from their fleet guarantee. Jazz Aviation LP had to reach an agree

AD 2021-05-11 Required Deactivating The Spoiler Control Module (SCM) Relays

The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2017-26-10, which applied to certain The Boeing Company Model 757 airplanes. AD 2017-26-10 required deactivating the spoiler control module (SCM) relays and capping and stowing the associated wiring on certain airplanes. This AD requires repetitive operational tests of the spoiler inhibit function. For certain airplanes, this AD requires installing a new relay bracket assembly, making changes to the wire bundles for certain SCMs, installing new SCMs, measuring the clearance between a wire bundle and the top of the new relay bracket assembly, and applicable on-condition actions...