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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 501 July 10th, 2000, We first Published in October 1995
Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson - Co-pilot - Terry Baker
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. We welcome -
Ron Uloth is a retiree out of Air Canada in Montreal. Both Ron and Diane can be
emailed at
Email:
retired Reservations Systems Analyst living in Courtenay, B.C.
Murray presently organizes the North Vancouver Island Pionairs.
Gerald Blaney, Ramp Supervisor living in Burlington, Ont.
Helen Gordon, Flight Attendant lives in Scarborough, Ont.
New retirees Marie Bray can be reached at
Muriel Gleason is at
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. Need to know -
Employee and partner travel could be a challenge this summer.
Heavy passenger loads are already a reality! As a result, standby employee and partner
travel will likely be extremely difficult and potentially limited. Employees should make
alternate travel arrangements prior to leaving home base.
As well, employees should ensure travel partners understand the travel partner program
prior to departure, recognizing loads constantly change.
(Although directed at employees - this concerns retirees as well! - eds)
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. The chief pilot tells us that out of country retirees who wish to keep up to date with
affairs in Canada, can check the web site at www.cbc.ca
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. Whats on and where - complied by Tom Grant -
White Rock/South - 1st Tuesday of every month 1000 hrs at White Spot
152 St north of 16th Ave.
Richmond - 2nd Wednesday of every month 1000 hrs at White Spot
5888 No 3 Road (Save-On Foods mall).
Tsawassen - 2nd Tuesday of every month 1000 hrs at White Spot
12th Street at 56th Ave.
Ladner - 4th Tuesday of every month 1000 hrs at Ricky's
Trenant Park Shopping Centre Ladner Trunk Rd.
Edmonton, Coffee & Chat at Kingsway Garden Mall- Smitty's Lounge
from 10:00 to 12:00 noon. This is a monthly event held the 1st Tuesday of every
month rain, shine, sleet, snow.
Scarborough Coffee Group. To be held at the Golden Griddle Restaurant,
7100 Woodbine Avenue. All Pionairs, Air Canada retirees , widows,
widowers and guests are welcome to join.
Prestwick/Glasgow Pionairs meet for lunch on the 1st Tuesday of every month
at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Preswick at 12:30.
Saint John retirees Monthly Luncheons. On the last Thursday of the month and usually
at a different location each month.
Montreal Pionairs - First Thursday each month - d'Air Canada - lunch,
Les Amis Retraités Restaurant, La Sirène, 480 St. Martin Quest, Laval
Halifax Pionairs: Armdale Yacht Club, first Wednesday in the month. (Ended in June
resumes in October.)
T2 Coffee Klatch for Toronto airport sales retirees. At the Golden Griddle, AirwayCentre,
5559 Airport Road.The restaurant is rightacross the road from the airport terminals.
Lots of free parking; easyaccess, too. Meet at 1100 hr on the first Tuesday of each
month.
Alexandria Air Canada Retirees 2nd Wednesday Lunch Group monthly.
Dorval C & SS Retirees, 1st Thursday monthly Lunch at Peter's Cape Cod Restaurant
Ottawa, Pionair KoffeeKlatsches Fridays at 10 AM Weekly, Family Restaurant,
Carlingwood Shopping
Kelowna/Vernon Pionairs, 1st Tuesday monthly 10am Coffee & Chat at Muffin Break.
Penticton, 1st Tuesday monthly 10:am Coffee&Chat at Tim Hortons
Cherry Lane Shopping Mall
BurlOak Coffee Klatch - hold its' monthly (every third Wednesday) get-together at
Mother Tucker's Market Place, QEW for the Oakville/Burlington and
vicinity Pionairs held at 11.00 am.
St Catharines has a weekly get together at the Sweets & Crepes Cafe on Ontario St
at Lakeport. Every Wednesday at 10 AM a small group of us meet up
to solve some of the world's problems.
Mississauga gang of Pionairs meet at 2pm every 2nd Tuesday of the month at Mustang
Watering Hole just across from McDonalds in the Clarkson Area shopping
mall on Lakeshore Dr West.
Etobicoke Air Canada Pionairs single ladies meetings are held each month by
Sue Schreiner . If you would like more information contact Sue at (416) 244-2050.
Visiting retirees in any of the above areas are more than welcome to drop-in.
Check the web site www.acfamily.net/acrew/ for more details.
If your group meets regularly and are not mentioned here, please let us know the
details so that we may update the web pages.
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. News from the districts -
Sheila Moscoe keeps us current with the T2 coffee klatches in YYZ -
So, just to let you know, on September 5th, we will be celebrating our 2nd anniversary of the T2 Coffee Klatch at the Golden Griddle. The restaurant is going to have a cake for us. Then, starting October 3rd, we will be moving to Tucker's Marketplace,
at 15 Carlson Court, Etobicoke, ON. Phone: 416-675-8818. It is north off Dixon Road at Attwell (opposite the Delta Inn) and one block east on Carlson Court. Very easy to locate, with it's own parking lot.
It'll still be $2.00 for unlimited coffee/tea. And their buffet, which is scrumptious will be
$7.99 for us. They will also have a dining voucher as a "door prize".
It's still from 1100hr, but they will open the doors for us at 1030hr. We'll have our own private area to visit (schmooze) and eat. Everyone is looking forward to the move. The parking wasn't very good at the Golden Griddle, especially during the winter. There's was located in a large office complex.
So, that's the update on the T2 Coffee Klatch...airport sales retirees. Come join us!
Sheila
Irv Christjanson sends us the information on the Burloak Koffee Klatch group:
The Burloak Koffee Klatch group celebrated their 3rd year in existance, on June 22nd,
with a BBQ hosted by Fraser and Rosemary O'Shaughnessy. 51 Pionairs attended and all
indicated that they enjoyed the get-together....even Fraser's cooking skills
(chicken and eye of the round steaks). The festivities were interrupted by a 5 minute rain
shower, but this did not prompt anyone to jump into the pool.
The group congratulated Lloyd and Janette Dean on their 50th wedding anniversary
(one week prior to the BBQ) and said a fond farewell and good luck wishes to Peter and
Jessica Blyth who have taken up residence in Kelowna BC (Jessica is currently working for
AC in Calgary and commuting to/from Kelowna). They will be missed by the group.
A reminder that the next Burloak Koffee Klatch will be held on July 19th at Tuckers
Marketplace, in Burlington, starting at 10:30am, where visiting retirees are always welcome.
If you want further information about the group please contact Irv Christjanson at
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. Found on the internet.
FREQUENT FLIER OFFER USED TOO FREQUENTLY:
A frequent flier offer that sounded like a great promotion has been great ... for the
passengers taking part. Latin Pass, a program made up of ten South and Central
American airlines, came up with a promotion that seemed fairly difficult ... until one person
accomplished it in a week. For about $3,000 and 27 hours in the air, Dan Hacker of
Maryland received 1 million miles, worth roughly $10,000.
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. In NetLetter nr 498 we gave details of the volunteers at Kelowna.
Albert Sones wishes to set the record straight -
Subject: VOLUNTEERS AT kELOWNA
I must commend Bernie Danis for sending in a report on the Volunteers at the Kelowna
Airport, But I thought you may want to know the whole story,
The ambassadors as they are called was started last July 23 by Canadian Airline
Retirees in the Okanagan organized and run by myself Abby Sones,
I started with 16 Canadian retirees and then asked Air Canada Retirees if they wanted to
join us, which we got the six that Bernie mentioned, now we have friendly friends and
neighbours also doing the job for a total of 50 volunteers working seven days a week.
Retirees from Canadian Airlines are:
Abby Sones, Russ and Dorothy Bass, Olga Byrnes, Ken Dewerson, Dan Dyer,
Bob Eddie, Fred Fairhall, Catherine Hache, Gudy Hohenwarter, Margaret Jeffrey,
John & Maureen Johnson, Ruth & Hugh Montgomery, Ian Rennie,
So if anyone in the Okanagan Area is interested in joining our group and it doesn't
matter which airline you are from you should call the coordinator
Abby Sones at 250-712-1634 or email at
By the way the Kelowna airport expansion of 40,000 sq. ft.
was officially opened on Fri. June 30.
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Tom Grant sends us this information -
Please add to your calendar.
Your members, relatives and friends are invited to compete in the World Airline Road Race
(WARR 2000) 10K & 5K. In sunny Cancun, Mexico, from October 18-22.
Sunday the 22nd is Race Day.
For information, phone or fax us at (613) 731-0088
Or visit our WebPages:
http://members.tripod.com/warr_race or http://warr2000.org
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. Gilles Bolduc seeks help for these two questions -
* Do you know if the company is considering or has considered having employees register for flights via the internet. Oh how great it would be not having to wait for service for sometimes hours and how much time we could save the company with res agents having to deal with our tel. calls.
* It is my understanding that there are new codes for the airline industry. Question: is this correct? if it is, is there a way of getting the new codes?
Gilles Bolduc
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. Terry's travel tips.
The Star Alliance™ network expands.
On July 1, British Midland and Mexicana de Aviación joined the Airline Network for
Earth. British Midland, the UK’s second largest scheduled carrier, serves 32 destinations
throughout Europe from its London Heathrow hub. Mexicana, Mexico’s oldest airline,
maintains a route network covering 50 destinations in nine countries.
Here is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with over
350 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and
Fax Listings from over 150 countries all around the world. http://www.teldir.com/eng/
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. Smilie,
FLY THE AIRPLANE AND EAT IT, TOO:
Some chickens at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev., didn't run fast
enough. Seems that one of the airport vendors is doing something just a tad, well, different.
A Burger King there recently started serving airplane-shaped Chicken Tenders.
This leads to a question it might take Superman to answer: "Is it a bird or is it a plane?"
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Important reminder, for all new articles, submissions and or comments
for the "The Netletter" please send to:
Our joint e-mail address is:
please add to your Address Books.
This e-mail address has been set up so that both of us (exclusively)
will get an automatic copy and so we can keep up with the continuity of
news for the NetLetter.
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