A19-05 – “…the Department of Transport require all commercial operators to collect and report hours flown and movement data for their aircraft by Canadian Aviation Regulations subpart and aircraft type, and that the Department of Transport publish those data.”
Transport Canada Response to Recommendation A19-05
TC agrees in principle with the recommendation.
TC agrees that more precise activity data will help stakeholders in the air-taxi sector to assess risk and evaluate, to an extent, which mitigating strategies to improve safety are having a greater impact.
TC also recognizes that collecting these data would require significant investment, from both the industry who would be required to provide the data, and for TC who would be required to collect and analyse it.
To this end, TC will consult with industry by the end of 2020. Work will also be undertaken by TC to evaluate what has already been done regarding collection and reporting of data, determine what data/ information is missing and consider the requirements and best approaches to obtain the activity data described in the recommendation. The consultations would be followed by an internal summary of what we heard from the consultations, which would likely be shared by means of the TC Let’s Talk Page. TC would be better positioned by summer/fall 2021 to determine whether or not a regulatory proposal would be appropriate.