Air Transat Flight TS8500 arrived in Toronto yesterday from Amman, Jordan with 207 Syrian refugees aboard. “We are very pleased to be the first Canadian ******* 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.
