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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)

Number 583 Apr 28th, 2001,  We first Published in October 1995


Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson   -      Co-pilot  - Terry Baker

To get in touch with either editor/pilot our  email address is
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REPEATING NETLETTER - SOME OF OUR READERS DID NOT GET A FULL COPY!


. Need to know.
Donna Moran sent us this query -
I'm sure you have heard by now that our 25 and 30 year First Class
confirmed space passes are now not only not First Class but not even
confirmed!  Is there anyone doing anything about this?  Is there anything
we can do about it?  I don't have a problem with changing the rules from
this time forward but it does annoy me that as a retiree that was part of
my package upon completion of 25 years and I don't feel it should be taken
away.    Donna Moran
Industry travel sent this response -
As you know, our flights only have Executive and Hospitality
service in North America/Caribbean and Executive/First and
Hospitality service on most international flights.

Due to revenue demand on our popular Executive product, employees
can only book in Executive 72 hours prior to flight departure;
however, booking in Hospitality is guaranteed once they are booked.
The priority has been upgraded to PJ2/J05 from PJ4/J05.
The  deplanement policy does not apply for service award travel.

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We welcome -

Kathleen E Inkster      This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     Winnipeg MB     Engine Overhaul
Laurent Jolicoeur       This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.       Mississauga ON Cust Sales & Svce
Robert W.Jort               This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Beaconsfield QC Human Resources
Elke    Karsten             This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Bramalea ON In Flt
Henry   Loo                 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Coquitlam BC  Tech Training
Ron     Manning This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     Prince George, BC cargo
James McLarnon  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.    Pointe Claire, QC                              Labour Relations
dward Nevins   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.        Brampton ON
Don     Newman  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Etobicoke       ON      Flt ops
Marcel Parent               This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.       Laval, QC               Cargo
Jean    Parrot          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.      Roxboro QC              Flt ops
Constantino Primiani    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Surrey BC               Psgr. Agt
Bob     Randall             This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Vancouver BC             Flt ops
Michele Sansoucy        This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.      Montreal QC             Sales
Barry   Smith               This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   Oakville ON             Flt ops
Kerry   Snider              This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.        Calgary AB              Employee Benefits
Josephine Urbanowicz    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.               Winnipeg MB         widow
Bob     Wysocki This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.      Caledon ON      TechOps Mtce.Training
Wesley W. Zieske        This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Winnipeg MB
Robert Cooper                This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Henry   Kozminski       This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Vancouver BC            YVRFF
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. From the YYZNEWS issued by Brian Dunn -

Air Canada has come to the rescue of Ansett Australia who had their whole
fleet of Boeing 767s grounded by the Australian Air authority just before Easter weekend.
A Boeing 767-375ER (C-FTCA FIN638) ferried from Vancouver to Sydney via Honolulu
on 17 April (as AC7044) and on the 18th commenced flying three round trips per day
to Melbourne, and more recently to Brisbane as well.
The aircraft is due to ferry back to Canada on May 2nd.
This is considered a wet-lease since Air Canada crews are flying the aircraft.
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. Stoney Jackson - President Canadian Aviation Historical Society - Vancouver Island sneds:-
C A H S     Vancouver Island Chapter
Tuesday, May 8,2001   Norseman Room
BC Aviation Museum (Victoria Airport)
Guest Speaker - Chuck Haigh. Chuck will be presenting a slide show about
"Seal hunting in the Gulf of St.Lawrence". Afterwards perhaps Chuck will relate some
of his flying experiences of his flying career in South America, Northern Canada,
the Middle East and the Caribbean.
Our agreement with the Aviation Museum says that non-museum members must
pay $2.00 when attending the CAHS meeting.
Airport Notes-
Two beautiful restored aircraft are at Victoria Air Maintenance this week:
Grumman Avenger TBM -3 USN 53337 NL 337GA.
Beech U-8F Seminole US Army 82-24054  N51685.
For those interested please join us for lunch at "Mary's" at 11:30 before the meeting.
See you on May 8th and bring a friend.
Regards,  Stoney

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. May Day.


"Need some help"
My wife and I plan visting SFO  for about 5 days in June But with  the CDN$ being
worth only about 40 cents in the US I find the listed rates for hotels a bit high.
If anyone has visited SFO  recently and found accom in the downtown core  or
knows of hotels for retired airline employees at a reasonable rate I would
appreciate hearing from them.
Bert Simpson, Retired AC.  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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. Found on the internet.


Airlines race to offer passengers e-mail service
For more than a year, airlines have been fiddling around with technology and
fretting about when and how they're going to introduce in-flight e-mail and Internet
capability on their airplanes. But now it's off to the races for these services,
which industry surveys show business travelers put first on lists of technological
amenities they want on board. On Sunday, from over the Pacific, on a flight
from Los Angeles, Singapore Airlines dispatched an e-mail announcement to
dozens of reporters, gleefully claiming bragging rights as the first airline to provide
passengers with the capability to plug their laptops into in-seat telephone ports
to send and receive e-mail and browse about 30 Web sites.

10-year-old abandoned after flying alone
A 10-year-old boy whose mother put him alone on a flight from Toronto
to Hong Kong has been sent to a children's home after his father failed to
show up and meet him, officials said Friday. The boy, surnamed Mui
was put on Air Canada flight AC3007 in Toronto and arrived in Hong Kong on
Wednesday afternoon. A flight attendant of United Airlines -- the local ground
handling agent for Air Canada escorted him to the meeting place where his
father was supposed to be.
They waited for more than an hour but nobody appeared.

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. Vesta, our chief pilot, sends this from the' flight deck' -

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