Under current regulations an Airbus 320 with 140 seats and four exits would have four flight attenda

An Air Canada Rouge flight attendant. Transport Canada is considering giving airlines the flexibility to reduce staffing to one attendant for every 50 passengers, down from one for every 40 currently.
Currently, Transport Canada requires one flight attendant for every 40 passengers. The department is considering giving airlines the flexibility to reduce staffing to one attendant for every 50 passengers — whichever will “best satisfy their needs.”
Officials with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents more than 10,000 flight attendants, attended a public consultation meeting on the proposed changes Thursday in Ottawa and accused federal regulators of putting champions tour money leader the aviation industry’s bottom line ahead of public safety.
Under current regulations an Airbus 320 with 140 seats and four exits would have four flight attendants, so each exit would be covered in an emergency, champions tour money leader said Michel Cournoyer, president of CUPE’s airline division. Airlines that adopt the eased standard would have only three attendants on the same plane.
When an Air France plane crashed at Toronto’s Pearson Airport in 2005, fire blocked a couple of the exits. But because all doors were staffed, flight attendants were able to quickly champions tour money leader redirect passengers to the other exits and all 309 people champions tour money leader aboard escaped, he said.
But the National Airlines Council of Canada, which represents Air Canada, Air Transat, Jazz Aviation and WestJet, said the proposed one-to-50 ratio would “in no way compromise the safety of passengers and crew.
Transport Canada published a notice in late March advising the public of the proposed changes to the Canadian Aviation Regulations. According champions tour money leader to the notice, foreign carriers operating in and out of Canada already use the one-to-50 ratio. “Thus the proposed regulatory change would allow Canadian air operators to compete on a comparable champions tour money leader basis to those carriers.”
Canada’s current attendant-to-passenger champions tour money leader ratio was adopted in 1968. Transport Canada considered adopting the one-to-50 ratio a decade ago, but decided to study the idea further. The department revisited the rule again last year after granting special permission to Sunwing Airlines and WestJet Airlines to use the one-to-50 ratio.
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