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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
Laurent Jolicoeur
Robert W.Jort
Elke Karsten
Henry Loo
Ron Manning
James McLarnon
dward Nevins
Don Newman
Marcel Parent
Jean Parrot
Constantino Primiani
Bob Randall
Michele Sansoucy
Barry Smith
Kerry Snider
Josephine Urbanowicz
Bob Wysocki
Wesley W. Zieske
Robert Cooper
Henry Kozminski
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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.
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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' -