Passengers on board two Air Canada flights at Vancouver International Airport were delayed Sunday afternoon after the planes they were on came into contact on the tarmac.
In an email, the airline said the incident happened while an Air Canada Rouge Airbus A319 was being pushed back from the gate.
The Airbus’s wingtip “made contact” with a Jazz Air Canada Express Q400 plane that was parked at a nearby gate, the airline said.
No one was injured, Air Canada said, and customers are scheduled to fly to their final destinations on other flights later today.
Air Canada didn’t say how many passengers were affected, but the Q400 seats about 75 passengers and the Airbus A319 seats between 120 and 156 passengers.
YVR confirmed that its fire and rescue team responded to the incident Sunday afternoon, and no one was injured.
On Friday, the airport said it was expecting 316,000 travellers over the long weekend.