| Message from ATAC'S chairman of the board |
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The news of the departure of
the four large air carriers from the Air Transport Association of
Canada membership earlier this week has, understandably, left many of
you with questions and concerns as to the reasons behind this turn of
events and ATAC’s intentions going forward.
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| Bacteria in aircraft cabin air may pose less of a risk to travelers than imagined |
 Popular wisdom says that aircraft provide the perfect environment for
spreading disease, but few studies exist to confirm or deny this
suspicion. Now, a team of researchers from the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, a leading federal agency and Harvard University
has measured concentrations of bacteria in the cabin air of 12
commercial passenger aircraft, and found that flying may be safer than
we think.
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| Celebration Honours 50-Year career of Ag aviation pioneer Leland Snow |
 The 50-year aviation career of Leland Snow, the man many call “the
father of the modern crop dusting aircraft”, or aerial application
aircraft, was celebrated Sat. April 5 , 2008.
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| Next-generation sensors may help avert airline disasters |
 Everyone on board an Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) plane died
when it collided with a light aircraft and exploded in a luggage hanger
in Milan in 2001. The smaller plane had taxied wrongly and ended up on
the runway where the SAS aircraft was taking off.
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