Air Canada fined by U.S. for flights over prohibited Iraqi airspace

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Friday it had fined Air Canada US$250,000 for operating flights successful 2022 and 2023 successful prohibited Iraqi airspace.

The bureau had jurisdiction due to the fact that those flights had United Airlines’ designator code. The violations occurred connected galore flights betwixt the United Arab Emirates and Toronto in airspace that was prohibited by the Federal Aviation Administration to U.S. operators.

The FAA cited the “complex information environment” that exists implicit Iraq successful barring flights. Air Canada must wage US$125,000 of the good and owes different US$125,000 if it violates the bid again wrong a year. Air Canada stopped codesharing with United connected the way successful January 2023.

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Air Canada said the “incidents were brief, unplanned and inadvertent and owed to respective factors, including air traffic power restrictions and a power to a larger aircraft that needed much clip to execute capable altitude. Also, information was not compromised.” The bearer added it has taken enactment to forestall specified incidents from reoccurring.

Emirates was fined $1.5 cardinal by the Transportation Department successful June for operating flights carrying JetBlue Airways’JBLU.O code implicit Iraqi airspace. It was the 2nd clip they had been fined since 2020.
–Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis