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  • People wait in line to check in at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Thursday, May 12, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

    Airports calling for elimination of COVID-19 screening requirements to relieve backlogs

  • People travel at Pearson International Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. The country's largest flight attendant union says members are effectively forced to work for free amid growing tarmac delays. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

    Airport delays effectively forcing flight attendants to work for free: Union

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    'The time to act is now:' Business leaders want random COVID testing scrapped at Pearson amid significant delays

  • Guide Eli Schellenberg, in red, leads climbers down from the summit of the Mt. Norquay Via Ferrata near Banff, Alta., Thursday, June 20, 2019. Even as gas prices hit record highs, Canadians are fanning out across the country for fresh travel experiences after two years of bottled-up demand. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

    Canadians hold nose at gas prices as they hit the road, skies once again

  • Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra speaks to reporters as he arrives for a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Alghabra says the unacceptable delays at airport security in Canadian airports can't be mostly blamed on a labour shortage. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

    Experts question minister's take that rusty travellers are clogging airports

  • Long lineups are seen at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

    ‘Unsustainable’: Delays at Toronto Pearson airport could worsen as summer season approaches

  • Travelers are photographed at Toronto Pearson International Airport, on Thursday, December 16, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin

    Toronto travellers should arrive at Pearson Airport 2 hours ahead of flights

  • People make their way on a pedestrian street at the foot of the Acropolis hill, in Athens, on Sunday, May 1, 2022. Italy and Greece relaxed some COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday, in a sign that life was increasingly returning to normal before Europe's peak summer tourist season. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

    Italy, Greece relax COVID-19 restrictions ahead of tourist season

  • A boat floats on the water, surrounded by sargassum, a seaweed-like algae, in Bahia La Media Luna, near Akumal in Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Aug. 5, 2018. With more algae spotted floating out at sea, experts fear that 2022 could be as bad or worse than the catastrophic year of 2018, the biggest sargassum wave to date. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

    Mexico Caribbean beaches may see worst sargassum since 2018

  • Travellers wait in line at a Sunwing Airlines check-in desk at Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

    Sunwing delays caused by data security breach continue

  • FILE - Travelers wearing protective masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus move about the a terminal at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, April 19, 2022. Airlines have banned several thousand passengers since the pandemic started for refusing to wear masks. Now they want most of those passengers back. Officials with United Airlines and American Airlines said Thursday, April 21, 2022 that they will lift the bans now that masks are optional on flights. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

    U.S. airlines want to bring back passengers banned over masks

  • Travellers walk through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday, April 1, 2022 in Seattle. On Monday, April 18, 2022, a federal judge in Florida voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation saying it exceeded the authority of U.S. health officials. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

    Florida judge voids US mask mandate for planes, other travel

  • FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a passenger wears a face mask she travels on a flight from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

    U.S. CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises

  • A plane is seen through the window on the tarmac of Vancouver International Airport as the waiting room is empty Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Air Canada says it is suspending flights between Vancouver and Delhi this summer due to extended flying times and a refueling stop that are needed to avoid Russian and Ukraine airspace. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

    Air Canada to suspend flights between Vancouver and Delhi this summer

  • Passengers wait to have their bags checked-in at Montreal–Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Saturday, December 19, 2020. Canadian airlines are asking a Federal Court of Appeal judge today to quash rules that beef up compensation for passengers subjected to delayed flights and damaged luggage. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

    Canadian airlines among carriers asking appeal court to quash passenger rights rules

  • Passengers make their way through Montreal-Trudeau airport in Montreal, on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

    Relaxed border rules take effect today. Here is what you need to know

  • In this file photo, passengers get off a Megabus bus at a Station in Rensselaer, N.Y., on Monday, April 9, 2012. (AP /Mike Groll)

    Megabus to resume service between Toronto and the U.S., increase trips in Ontario

  • Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says travellers will no longer need to show a COVID-19 test to enter Canada as of April 1, as cases of the virus in the country continue to decline. A LifeLabs employee walks past a child waiting for his parents in the COVID-19 testing area for arriving international passengers at Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday, December 2, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

    Feds formally announce that vaccinated travellers won't need pre-arrival COVID-19 test as of April 1

  • FILE - Patrick Foye, Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, hands out face masks on a New York City subway, , Nov. 17, 2020, in New York. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing guidance that will ease the nationwide mask mandate for public transit next month. That's according to a U.S. official. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

    U.S. extends mask rule for travel while weighing new approach

  • Passengers check in at Toronto's Pearson Airport on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

    Toronto Pearson expecting busiest travel day since start of pandemic Friday for March Break