Air Canada Chief Executive Officer Michael Rousseau will retire in September after facing backlash for an English-only response to a fatal runway collision in New York.The March 22 accident at LaGuardia Airport involved an Air Canada Express flight from Montreal that struck a fire truck, killing pilots Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther.Prime Minister Mark Carney and Quebec leaders criticized the linguistic failure, noting the airline has legal bilingual obligations and one victim was a French-speaking Quebecer.While the
NTSB investigates ground safety failures, the Montreal-based company has launched a global search for a new leader fluent in both English and French.