Flight Headed to Toronto With Syrian Refugees

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Flight TS8500 has now left Amman for Toronto Air Transat is the first Canadian airline to carry Syrian refugees to Canada
Flight TS8500 has now left Amman for Toronto Air Transat is the first Canadian airline to carry Syrian refugees to Canada
Flight TS8500 has now left Amman for Toronto Air Transat is the first Canadian airline to carry Syrian refugees to Canada
Flight TS8500 has now left Amman for Toronto. Air Transat is the first Canadian airline to carry Syrian refugees to Canada

TORONTO – Air Transat Flight TS8500 has now left Amman, Jordan, bound for Toronto with 207 Syrian refugees aboard. “We are very pleased to be the first Canadian airline company to engage in this major humanitarian effort, and to be assisting the Canadian government and international authorities in this way,” said Jean-François Lemay, General Manager of Air Transat.

The operation is being led by the International Organization for Migration, in collaboration with Canadian authorities. The flight, operated with an Airbus A330, is expected to arrive Toronto early evening today.

About Air Transat
Air Transat is Canada’s leading holiday travel airline. Every year, it carries some 3 million passengers to nearly 60 destinations in 30 countries aboard its fleet of Boeing narrow-body and Airbus wide-body jets. The company employs more than 2,500 people. Air Transat is a business unit of Transat A.T. Inc., an integrated international tour operator with more than 60 destination countries and that distributes products in over 50 countries. Air Transat was named Best North American Leisure Airline at the Skytrax annual World Airline Awards, held in June 2015.

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