{
  "id": 16575465,
  "title": "Air Canada blamed maintenance issues to deny compensation. Records show it wanted planes for other routes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/air-canada-blamed-maintenance-issues-to-deny-compensation-records",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC Canada",
    "slug": "cbc-canada",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/air-canada-maintenance-loophole-deny-compensation-9.7392314"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Documents obtained by Go Public show Air Canada told passengers their flights were cancelled for safety-related aircraft maintenance, making them ineligible for compensation. But the planes they had been scheduled to fly on were fine and the airline used them for other routes.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}