Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Canadian Airlines was a founding member of the "Oneworld Alliance" together with American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways and Qantas.

Below we have the Canadian November 1999 timetable on the left and an insert on the right.

Here is an ad announcing that Canadian is launching a $2.4 billion space program. 

(Source: airline-memorabilia.blogspot.ca)

From the Air Canada "Horizons" magazine issue dated December 2017/January 2018.

Retiring Fin 681. (Used with permission)

This Boeing 767-300 Fin #681 C-FCAB c/n 24082 has flown 129,863 flight hours, 5,410 days or 14.8 years. Delivered to Canadian Airlines on April 15, 1988, this aircraft flew domestic, trans border, Caribbean and international routes.

Captains Doug Bailey (left) and Bradley Dey (right) flew the newly retired aircraft to its new home in Marana, Arizona on October 25, 2017.

From the Air Canada Stores Parts & Pieces magazine issue September 1990.

PWA Corp. the owners of Canadian Airlines International had a very sweet deal going with American Airlines, a deal that could have given them a windfall profit of some $380 million; Really big bucks without too much effort.

You see PWA Corp. had sold its rights for the purchase of two (much sought after) Boeing 747-400s, to American Airlines. American really needed those two planes in a hurry.

Alas, it was not to be... a precondition to the sale of the rights, was that American get the nod to fly to Tokyo from wild and windy Chicago. In a surprise judgement by Justice John Mathias of the US Department of Transport, the application for the lucrative Chicago-Tokyo route was shot down in flames. The airline favoured for that route was United. Better luck next time.