Canada’s transportation safety agency is investigating after a plane overshot the runway at an airport west of Toronto on Friday. The Transportation Safety Board said a Boeing 737 belonging to Flair Airlines overran the runway after landing at Waterloo International Airport in Waterloo, Ontario. “The TSB will gather information and assess the occurrence,” the agency said in a written statement. Flair Airlines said there were no injuries reported and passengers boarded a bus to the airport terminal. There were 134 passengers on board the flight, plus crew. Flair said the flight was coming from Vancouver to Waterloo and had just landed when the plane “exited the runway.” The budget airline did not comment on what might have caused the plane to overshoot the runway.<br/>
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The CE of Glasgow-based airline Loganair has promised to continue serving isolated Scottish Highland and island communities that depend on it, despite being put up for sale. Jonathan Hinkles was speaking after the announcement in October by owners Stephen and Peter Bond that they wanted to dispose of Loganair as they moved into retirement. The Bond brothers are aviation entrepreneurs, having inherited the Bond Helicopters business founded by their father, which they sold in 2011. Stephen Bond is 72 and Peter 61. Loganair provides vital services such as supplying perishable food weekly to North Ronaldsay in the Orkneys during a winter break in the island’s ferry service. It carries children from some islands to school. Hinkles said he had told officials from the Scottish and Isle of Man governments and officials from local councils in other areas, including the Western Isles and Shetland, that he expected any sale to have no effect on the airline’s commitment to their areas. “I have told all the actors within government . . . there have been five different sets of owners of Loganair and we’re still here,” Hinkles saidw. “You can fully expect us to still be here despite a sixth exchange of ownership.” Hinkles added that he had been asked after one consultation session what would happen if the airline went to a new buyer that had no interest in serving the remote communities that Loganair currently serves. He replied that he could see no reason for an owner uninterested in those markets to buy the airline.<br/>
Australia’s Regional Express expects to report a profit for its current financial year, which ends on 30 June 2023, as its domestic jet operations continue to be profitable. According to unaudited accounts, Rex’s domestic jet operations are expected to report an A$2m pre-tax profit, higher than the “slight profitability” reported in September. This is also the first time the operator has disclosed a profit figure for its jet operations, which it launched in March 2021. In an earnings forecast released 25 November, Rex notes that its regional operations remain loss-making in October – “due to the predatory actions of Qantas” – but that it will return to profitability by early 2023. “The board of Rex will reaffirm its expectations that the group will make up for the accumulated losses incurred in the first four months of the [financial year] to emerge profitably overall for the entire [financial year],” the airline adds. At the release of its financial results for the year to 30 June, where it widened its losses, Rex had said it was “cautiously optimistic” of returning to profitability in the current financial year. In late October, the airline reported a strong pick-up in traffic in the July-September quarter, with revenue also on the upswing.<br/>