Sunwing no longer offering seasonal Canada-Europe flights

Boeing (BOE, Chicago O'Hare) has said it will not issue any further guidance to operators of B737 MAX aircraft despite mass groundings of the type over the past two days.

Both regulators and operators of the B737-8 and 9 have grounded their respective fleets given the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines B737 MAX 8, ET-AVJ (msn 62450), on Sunday, March 10, which killed all 158 passengers and crew onboard. The incident came just over four months after the crash of a Lion Air B737 MAX 8 which killed 189 onboard. Both accidents occurred shortly after take-off.

As of 1900Z on Wednesday, March 13, multiple countries have grounded all B737 MAX operations until further notice and/or banned the type from accessing their respective airspaces.

These include:

• European Union including the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland (as per an EASA Airworthiness Directive effective 1900Z, March 12);
• China;
• Australia;
• Malaysia;
• Kuwait;
• Oman;
• United Arab Emirates (UAE);
• Hong Kong;
• Equatorial Guinea;
• Kazakhstan;
• Kenya;
...

Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson) has resumed international services from Mont Joli, QC, connecting the city with Cancún and Punta Cana.

The carrier said in a press release that it launched services from the Quebecois airport on December 13, 2018, and will operate them weekly through April 11, 2019. Sunwing Airlines already operated seasonal international flights from Mont Joli in the Winter 2017/18 season.

According to the ch-aviation capacity module, on a year-round basis, Mont Joli sees exclusively domestic traffic operated by Pascan Aviation, Air Canada, and PAL Airlines (Canada).

Sunwing Airlines is a leisure-focussed scheduled operator with a fleet of thirty-three B737-800s and two B737-8s. It also wet-leases two -800s from Smartwings (Czechia) (QS, Prague Ruzyne) and two units of the type from TUI fly (Belgium) (TB, Brussels National) for the winter season. Sunwing operates predominantly out of Toronto Pearson and Montréal Trudeau.