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Passengers line-up at Pearson International Airport, in Toronto. Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press With the holiday travel season around the corner, Canada’s busiest airport is looking to redeem itself from a reputation of cancellations and delays this past summer. Toronto Pearson International Airport released its travel tips for passengers Tuesday. The airport said the week leading up to Christmas is expected to be the busiest time to travel as well as the days around Jan. 9, when many children return to school. In preparation for the spike, the airport has introduced an online security reservation system, YYZ Express, that lets customers on select flights reserve their security screening spot in advance. In September, the airport launched an online dashboard so that passengers can receive live wait times on security screening, customs, airline counters and baggage carousels. The airport peak times dashboard is another function Pearson recommends customers use that shows the ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday it is proposing a requirement that passenger and cargo aircraft in the United States have 5G C-Band-tolerant radio altimeters or install approved filters by early 2024. Concerns that 5G service could interfere with airplane altimeters, which give data on a plane’s height above the ground and are crucial for bad-weather landing, have led to recent disruptions at some U.S. airports. The proposed airworthiness directive, which would take effect in February, 2024, is similar to one that took effect in December, 2021, prohibiting passenger and cargo flight operations in the vicinity of 5G C-Band wireless transmitters unless the FAA specifically approved them. The FAA is also proposing a requirement that airlines revise airplane flight manuals to prohibit low-visibility landings after June 30 unless retrofits have been completed on that airplane. Verizon and AT&T in June voluntarily agreed to delay some C-Band 5G usage until Ju...

Luggage bags are amassed in the bag claim area at Toronto Pearson International Airport, as a major winter storm disrupts flights in and out of the airport, in Toronto, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. Cole Burston/The Canadian Press Federal politicians grilled executives of Canadian airlines and airports Thursday regarding the holiday travel disruptions, calling the wave of cancelled and delayed flights a “disaster” that ruined winter getaway plans and kept families apart at Christmas. Members of the transport committee called company representatives to a meeting to explain why so many travellers endured long delays, cancellations and lost luggage over the Christmas break. Hundreds of Sunwing Airlines customers were stranded in resorts for days with little or no communications from the carrier. “This holiday season was a complete disaster for my constituents and Canadians across the country,” said Calgary MP George Chahal. The airlines said snow and cold weather in much of the country groun...

Passengers line-up at Pearson International Airport, in Toronto. Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press With the holiday travel season around the corner, Canada’s busiest airport is looking to redeem itself from a reputation of cancellations and delays this past summer. Toronto Pearson International Airport released its travel tips for passengers Tuesday. The airport said the week leading up to Christmas is expected to be the busiest time to travel as well as the days around Jan. 9, when many children return to school. In preparation for the spike, the airport has introduced an online security reservation system, YYZ Express, that lets customers on select flights reserve their security screening spot in advance. In September, the airport launched an online dashboard so that passengers can receive live wait times on security screening, customs, airline counters and baggage carousels. The airport peak times dashboard is another function Pearson recommends customers use that shows the ...