Vesta's Corner
A Rooed Awakening For Australian Doctors
The Royal Flying Doctor Service, which dispatches medical help to Australia's far-flung regions by air, has now relaxed restrictions on night flights after the communities it serves took steps to keep kangaroos off their airport runways.
Last April, a medical flight hit kangaroos while landing at Coonamble in New South Wales. The Doctor Service then told the communities that it would only dispatch aircraft in the most urgent cases at night until something was done to improve safety. Last week, spokesman Roger Pethram said normal night flights resumed to 14 communities after they took action, usually at the expense of the kangaroos. "Most of them have carried out a cull but they've also improved their arrangements in a sense of making sure someone's going out to clear the roos off the runway before the aircraft lands so that's working quite well," he said. There's also $22 million in funding available for airport fencing that should allow aircraft and wildlife to co-exist more happily. "One of the strong statements from the Department of Transport and regional services is that a priority is airstrips that the Royal Flying Doctor Service uses," Pethram said.
This week's postcard sent to me by one of the NetLetter readers - February 2005
Africa
South Africa is definitely worth the trip, Best trip yet. Andy K
Note: for our new readers, I have been collecting postcards from our travelling NetLetter "family" for many years. If you are away and have a minute, I'd be delighted to get one from you as well. You can obtain my address by sending an email to
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Star Alliance News
EGYPTAIR and Lufthansa have signed a code sharing agreement, prompting rumours that
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Air Canada News
Citing "excess capacity" the company has stopped its dedicated freighter operations into China. It has returned the leased MD-11 freighter to World Airways terminating its all cargo service between Shanghai and Toronto. The company recently extended the lease for a MD-11F with World Airways for freight service to Frankfurt. New Ottawa Service --this winter will see the addition of six new non-stop destinations from Ottawa plus 36 additional weekly frequencies on exissting routes this winter. The overall increase amount's to about 10 per cent over last winter in terms of number of seats. Effective Oct. 28th a new, year-round non-stop service to Fredericton will be introduced using a Jazz Dash 8-100 aircraft. The same day a new daily non-stop service to Moncton will be launched with a 50-seat CRJ aircraft. A new non-stop service linking Ottawa with St.John's will also commence on October 28th using a 93-seat Embraer 190 jet. Two new winter non-stop sun flights from Ottawa have been added to Cancun and Montego Bay through Air Canada Vacations, each with Saturday service aboard Embraer 190 aircraft starting December 22nd. Twice weekly Ottawa to Las Vegas service launched this summer and will be continued through the winter. Frequencies will be added between Ottawa and Vancouver (3 daily non-stop), Calgary (3 daily non-stop), Edmonton (2 daily non-stop), London ON (2 daily non-stop) and Boston (4 daily non-stop) for the winter period. (Source www.yyznews.com)
Montreal & Maritimes New Service - Montreal will see a new Thursday non-stop service to the Turks & Caicos beginning December 20th and Sunday non-stops to Sannta Clara Cuba starting December 23rd. In addition, Air Canada will continue daily Boeing 777 service to Paris through the winter schedule period. The frequencies will be increased between Montreal and Montego Bay to two per week and to Orlando they will increase to 10 non-stop weekly flights. Montreal-Quebec City will go to 17 daily flights. In the Maritimes service between Halifax and Gander will be upgraded to operate twice daily using 50-seat CRJ aircraft. Summer services that will continue through the winter include Toronto to Deer Lake and Charlottetown, Halifax to New York-LGA, and St. John's to Deer Lake. Air Canada will also continue to evaluate opportunities for future expansion in Saint John, NB. (Source www.yyznews.com) |
Our 70 Years
During the year, RESERVEC goes into operation. Due to the inability of airports at Brandon, Yorkton, Swift Current, and Medicine Hat to accommodate Viscount aircraft, service was withdrawn and handed over to TransAir.
With the acceptance of the Douglas DC-3 aircraft, we noted the following article -
From "Between Ourselves" dated October 1946
Taller Stewardesses for Larger Planes. Good things may come in small packages - but who will say a word against Larger ones? Somehow, the tidings that new TCA Stewardesses may henceforth be an inch taller than previously strikes an enthusiastic chord. Although, we know that renowned girls already approach perfection, we are still great believers in variety. From now on, TCA will accept Stewardesses up to five feet six inches, with, the minimum remaining the same at five feet. Weight limitations still draw the line at 125 pounds. These larger aircraft of ours seem to bring blessings innumerable. (We were unable to locate any similar statement with the advent of the Boeing B747 Jumbo jet - eds)
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Found on the Internet
SMINTAir or SmokersInternational Airways will launch later this year with services from Germany to Japan utilizing a B747 leased from South African Airways.
As the name implies, smokers and non smokers will be welcomed. The upper deck will have a lounge and a duty free shop. The lower desk will have several lounges to encourage passengers to move around. The advanced air conditioning units will keep the air clean.
Ryanair, the Irish low cost carrier is the first airline to take advantage of the overhead luggage bins as a promotional medium, placing its own adverts on all flights.
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Canadi>n/CPAir/PWA, etc. Events & People
(We would welcome any work related memories from former CPAir, CAIL, retirees which we could share with our readers - eds)
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Terry's Travel Tips
Tours for W.A.C.A. members only -
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International Euro 130.00
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Smilie
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? |