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Alaska Airlines to move to winter-only service at YLW – Kelowna News – Castanet.net

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A major American airline will no longer being flying to Kelowna year-round.

Alaska Airlines confirms that as of mid-April, it will no longer be flying to YLW through the spring, summer and fall. Instead, it will only provide service through Kelowna in the winter months.

“Canada has been slower to recover to pre-pandemic demand,” said an unnamed Alaska Airlines spokesperson by email.

“Our load factors during the peak summer season to Kelowna were significantly lower than the rest of our system. Flights to that region of B.C. remain very popular during the winter.”

As such, Alaska will stop flying to YLW in mid-April and resume service in mid-December.

Alaska currently offers a single flight between Seattle and Kelowna. The flight has been offered daily, but it will only be running five days a week now until service ends entirely in mid-April.

The news comes shortly after low-cost airline Lynx announced it’s cancelling its flights between Kelowna and Vancouver.

“From time to time, when we are looking at air service, airlines based on market demand will add in or drop off flights, so this really isn’t anything unusual at this point in time,” YLW airport director Sam Samaddar told Castanet Friday.

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Suncor Energy pleads guilty to charges for 2019 injury on oil vessel off Newfoundland

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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Suncor Energy has been fined $90,000 after pleading guilty to two charges stemming from a worker injury in 2019 aboard its production vessel in an oilfield off the coast of Newfoundland.

In a news release Thursday, the province’s offshore oil regular said the company must also give $20,000 to the College of the North Atlantic’s health and safety management program.

The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board says Calgary-based Suncor pleaded guilty on Sept. 5 for failing to ensure the safety of its employees and failing to ensure its employees wore a safety harness attached to a lifeline while inside a confined space.

The board says a worker fell 7.6 metres from a safety ladder while testing for hydrogen sulfide in a ballast tank on the floating production and storage vessel in the Terra Nova offshore oilfield.

An agreed statement of facts says two emergency response workers then went into the tank to tend to the fallen man, and they were not wearing gas masks.

Suncor Energy is the majority owner of the Terra Nova oilfield, and it reported net earnings of $1.57 billion in the second quarter of this year.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 17, 2024.

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TD Bank announces new co-heads of U.S. commercial banking business

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Toronto-Dominion Bank has named new co-heads of its U.S. commercial banking business.

TD says Andy Bregenzer and Jill Gateman will jointly lead the operations.

The bank says the appointments follow the announcement earlier this year of Chris Giamo’s retirement.

Bregenzer will focus on leading all aspects of the regional commercial bank, including small business.

Gateman will lead TD’s national commercial banking effort in the U.S., including middle market, sponsor-backed finance and TD’s other specialty lending lines of business.

TD, which is working to resolve investigations into failures in its anti-money laundering program in the U.S., announced last week that chief executive Bharat Masrani would retire next year and be replaced by Raymond Chun.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2024.

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Payments tech company Lightspeed Commerce conducting strategic review of business

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MONTREAL – Lightspeed Commerce Inc. says it is conducting a review of its business and operations including talks relating to a range of potential strategic alternatives.

The Montreal-based payments technology company made the comments after reports concerning a potential transaction involving the company.

Lightspeed says it periodically undertakes a review of its business and operations with a view of realizing its full potential.

A strategic review is often seen by investors as a prelude to a sale by a company.

Lightspeed says its board of directors is committed to acting in the best interests of the company and its stakeholders.

Company founder Dax Dasilva returned to the role of chief executive officer earlier this year and has been working to return the company to profitability.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2024.

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