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Found in 'Horizons' magazine |
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Issue dated May 1993 |
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St. Lucia makes a move. Air Canada moved its operations into the new wing at Hewanorra International Airport in St. Lucia. Enjoying their new surroundings are, from left to right: Gregory Jean Baptiste, LIAT Passenger Agent; Denyse Joseph, Customer Service Agent - Port of Spain; Ali Ferdinand, Manager - St. Lucia; Kim Henry, LIAT Reservations Agent and Marva Greenidge, LIAT Reservations Agent. |
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Customers and employees tops in YYC. Calgary airport staff, including Customer Service and Cargo, celebrated Customer and Employee Appreciation Days by holding prize draws and serving coffee and cake. Helping cut the cake were, from left to right: Lillian Fioroni, Purser and Customer Sales and Service Agents Sandy Warren, Sandi Burniston and Betsy Regehr. |
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Issue dated June 1993 |
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Cargo Agent has winning design. |
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The logo incorporates the Canadian and Scottish flags, the Air Canada maple leaf logo and the Scottish thistle. Anniversary celebrations kicked off July 23 in Glasgow. |
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Found in The NetLetter archives.
Originally published: Tuesday, March 19, 2002. |
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There are no Wardair stories about crashes or accidents because Wardair in 27 years of DC-6, B-727, B-707, B-747, DC-10, A300 and A310 passenger charter operations had none. This was a remarkable achievement. Wardair also had tremendous passenger appeal and was fun to work for. Credit is due to all employees and the astute Max Ward. Hopefully the following reminiscence will jog other publishable Wardair memories. Not daring to offend any of my colleagues, this memorable Wardair story offends just me. Wardair's superb jet standards emulated from our Chief Flight Engineer Peter Tollovsen and the Vice President Flight Operations, Ab Freeman. Wardair's early GPWS (Ground Proximity Warning System) not only called out "whoop, whoop, pull up" but was modified (wink) to say "get a haircut". Haircuts were important in Wardair (strange now when you look at our nautical bearded ex-boss). All knew when a haircut was necessary, your hat didn't fit. That was before the days of flight crews carrying their hats so as not to ruin their coiffures. After a hair growing vacation, I shot out of the house early one morning to get my required SOP haircut for a flight that night. My regular barber was booked so I ended up with a strange barber in the town of Stayner, Ontario. While cutting, she also sold real-estate using a phone on her shoulder. Why not? Having never cut my hair before, she asked whether I wanted the back "blocked or tapered". Being a smart-ass, I replied "just make me look pretty". Her reply was very memorable, "You got all day?" |
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A memory by NetLetter editor, Terry Baker –
During my time in elementary school, we used a nib pen and dipped into a ceramic inkwell usually inserted at the right hand top of one’s desk. I recall that the nib could be changed into a missile by breaking off the tangs and exposing two sharp prongs. The nib was attached to a paper missile and then dispatched towards other students, before being caught out. I was fortunate to obtain one of the first new ballpoint pens. In the UK it was named a Biro. When I started to use it in class the teacher confiscated it and forbade its use. He would accept the use of a fountain pen however. Those of us who wrote letters overseas used flimsy lightweight paper, to save on postage. This Viscount pad (above left) is one of them. |
Wardair Memories from Ron Martyn.
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CAHS Convention 2024. |
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The Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) is pleased to announce the annual convention in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Wednesday, June 19 to Saturday, June 22, 2024, being held in partnership with the RCAF History and Heritage in recognition of the RCAF's 100th anniversary. Full Details: www.cahs.com |
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Our cartoon is another by Dave Mathias and appeared in the 'Between Ourselves' magazine issued September 1967. |
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