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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 577 Apr 10th, 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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. We welcome -
A.R. (Ross) Brown
Elaine Ramsay
Wallace Lamond retired Feb 1st 1989 worked in YVR STOC,
YMX, YUL & YWG lives in Vancouver BC email
Sidney Anthony
Kenneth Baldwin
Pierre Belec
Robin Blandford
ystems
Don Chidlow
James William Dailly
Mona Dalbec
Leo Desrochers
Rene d'heilly
Earle Erickson
Malcolm Eyes
Customer Service
Alan Reginald Greening
Maxine Hannaby
Victor Louis Hogue
Mel Jarvis
Glen Jeffrey
Gord Jones
Joseph B Kelly
Cecil Kipfer
Lindsay Kipps
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. May Day!
Subject: hotels in Rome Italy
Looking for information on hotels in Rome, Italy!
Thanks Elaine Ramsay <
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. News from the Pionair districts -
Subject: Halifax
Just to let you know that the Pionairs in Halifax and District are
having their next monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 2nd, at the
Armdale Yacht Club.
Especially, we want to see new retirees and want to welcome
Canadian retirees.
Betty Morgan Halifax
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. Found on the internet.
Delta Air Lines is saying a big "thank you" to an Alaska town that gave a
gracious welcome to a Delta flight diverted there in a precautionary landing
on March 23. Residents of Cold Bay, Alaska, -- population 69 -- took 220
passengers and crew members into their homes, cooked breakfast and
provided blankets after Delta Flight 79, a McDonnell-Douglas 11 aircraft,
made an unscheduled stop at the Alaska Peninsula village en route to Tokyo
from Los Angeles.
In gratitude for the town's hospitality, Delta will provide $7,000 to enable
Cold Bay to receive a matching grant from the state of Alaska for a new two-way
radio system for local emergency medical technicians (EMT). Delta also sent
a gift of 50 cases of fresh fruit and vegetables not grown on the windswept tundra
and will send Delta T-shirts for the kids at Cold Bay School. Jim Zerbe,
Delta will present a check to the mayor, as well as a plaque officially thanking
the people of Cold Bay, in a ceremony this week.
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. Alan Rust informs us that -
A copy of the 45 page decision by the arbitrator entitled Pilot Seniority has
been made available on the acfamily web site, together with two articles which
appeared recently in the national press regarding allowing foreign airlines access
to Canada.
Alan advises us -
I have set up a page so that those interested can download these files and get
the Adobe Acrobat reader as well.
Please see http://www.acfamily.net/public/
Alan Rust Web Administrator ACFamily Network
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. Terry's travel tips.
Jess Rougeau sends details of this cruise -
12 day tour - $959.00 Cdn p.p. Superior. Also $30.00 booking fee.
3 nights Athens, incl. City Tour, and l day cruise to Paros, Aegina,
Hydra Islands - Lunch incl. on ship. Extra nights hotel Athens is
$136.00 Cdn. tax included and 2 breakfasts.
3 nights Mykonos, 3 nights Santorini, 3 nights Crete
All breakfasts and on Crete 3 dinners also included.
Ferry transfers and tax/service included. Also air fare from Crete
returning to Athens. Departure cost Crete is $17.00
Will be a small extra charge as they are arranging transfer to the
ferry's and from the ferry to hotel on the three islands. You need air
fare - Air Canada flies to Munich and Lufthansa to Athens from Munich
(lowest fare I could find - positive was about $500.00 on Lufthansa).
A $100.00 deposit is required on the Greek Is. Tour.
We only have space for 50 and approx. 29 registered already.
Credit card is good.
To book the tour call Olivia or Erika at (514) 685 0951
- FAX: (514) 685 8122 or toll free 1 - 877 - 304 - 4384.
Date for start of tour - September 28, 2001 - Athens.
DARGAL has great rates for some fantastic destinations!
April 21 ~ 12 Nights ~ Dawn Princess - San Juan to Acapulco, Mexico
via Panama Canal
Inside from $444
April 25 ~ 10 Nights ~ Sun Princess - San Juan to Acapulco, Mexico
via Panama Canal
Inside from $434
May 26 ~ 10 Nights ~ Crown Princess
ITINERARY: Copenhagen, Denmark; At Sea; Stockholm, Sweden;
Helsinki, Finland; St. Petersburg, Russia;
Tallinn, Estonia; Gdansk, Poland; At Sea;
Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark
Inside from $779, Oceanview from $879
May 28 ~ 12 Nights ~ Golden Princess
ITINERARY: Barcelona, Spain; Monte Carlo, Monaco;
Florence/Pisa, Italy; Naples/Capri, Italy; At Sea;
Venice, Italy; At Sea; Athens (Piraeus),
Greece; Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey; Istanbul, Turkey
Inside from $754
June 9 ~ 12 Nights ~ Golden Princess
ITINERARY: Istanbul, Turkey; Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey;
Athens (Piraeus), Greece; At Sea; Venice, Italy; At Sea;
Naples/Capri, Italy; Florence/Pisa, Italy;
Monte Carlo, Monaco; Barcelona, Spain
Inside from $654
Rates are quoted in U.S. dollars per person (based on double occupancy) and are
subject to change, availability and eligibility.
Port charges and government taxes/fees are additional.
For more information on these and other specials, contact us at:
DARGAL Interline 1-800-690-3223 (North America)
International 01-250-861-3223
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. Smilie.
Tom Martin found this one -
Former ramp and customer service people might get a kick out of a bit from
the January issue of Airways.
It seems there was concern over the number of lost luggage claims involving
flights at London City airport - LYC. Was it theft or what? So one airline sent an
executive to investigate. He could find no reason. When he boarded for his
return flight and looked out the window he saw a tractor pulling carts loaded
with luggage and as the driver sped up and turned the corner he saw several
bags slide off the carts and into the Thames. When the river was dredged they
found at least 50 missing suitcases.
The same January issue has a good article on the demise of Canadian Airlines .
Tom Martin ex YULJZ
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