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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 598 June 24th, 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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. Need to know.
In elaborating on the information regarding the arrangement with Air New Zealand
mentioned in NetLetter nr 596, Industry Travel advises -
This is only an enhancement to the business travel agreement for
active employees, i.e., AC employees can self-ticket for business
travel on NZ.
We received the following query -
I have heard rumors that the spousal 25-year cards are being
discontinued and that the spouses are now only able to travel if the
employee signs the pass.
To which Industry Travel responded -
This is not a rumour. Vicki advised retirees who attended the AGM
in Calgary and explained that this spousal was part of the
presentation to the employee on his/her 25th anniversary.
There were a number of issues involved in producing, revising and
distributing 25-year anniversary spousal cards, as well as
retrieving the card (in the case of a divorce), to the degree that
it became necessary to discontinue this practice.
Spousal cards for active employees have an expiry date. They can
still be used until they expire; however, they will not be
replaced. As of January 2001, active employees did not receive a
spousal card on their 25th anniversary and will imprint passes for
their better half.
Spousal cards for retired employees do not have an expiry date and
they can still used as long as they still have them. But, once
reported lost or stolen, the cards will not be replaced.
Quite a number of active and retired employees have raised their
concerns that they were unable to retrieve the spousal card from
their legal or common-law spouse after a divorce or termination
of common-law relationship and some even had to take legal action
to get back the card.
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Air Canada shows off its new Airbus A330-300 in Paris.
June 19th, Air Canada took delivery of its 100th Airbus aircraft and today we flew it to the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget to show it off to the world. Fin 936 will be flown back to Montreal on Thursday. The A330-300 is our 18th Airbus A330/340 widebody.
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. Visiting Vancouver?
Discount available for Bard on the Beach, Vancouver's Shakespeare Festival.
Bard on the Beach, Western Canada's only professional Shakespeare Festival, is offering active and retired Air Canada and Air Canada Regional employees special discounts to performances of Antony and Cleopatra and The Taming of the Shrew. This offer available from June 20-July 5. Tickets are $15 and only a limited amount of seats are held for each performance. To order tickets one pair per employee, per performance call (604) 739-0559 and ask for the Corporate Sponsor Offer. At time of booking, mention that you're an Air Canada or Air Canada Regional employee. Tickets must be reserved and paid for in advance. You must present your employee ID/travel card to collect your tickets. Check out www.bardonthebeach.org for the list of performances.
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. Found on the internet.
KLM keen on BA but only without American
KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES sees British Airways as the logical choice
of European partner but only if it gives up its cooperation with American Airlines,
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. Tom Grant - web editor for RAPCAN sends this information -
A new book called 'Altimeter Rising' was reviewed recently in The Vancouver Sun. It is an autobiography by Alan MacNutt of his 50 years in aviation and about the 67 different types of
aircraft he has flown during his freelance type of career.I have read the book and found it a good read. It is about 200 pages and the price is $20.00 which includes postage.
The book can be ordered through him directly.
He can be reached by Email at; <mailto:
Alan Macnutt, 904-3170 Gladwin Rd., Abbotsford, BC, V2T 5T1.
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. News from the Pionairs -
Saville Hambleton sends us the dialogue recently completed regarding the
integration of the C.A.I.R.E. members into Air Canada Pionairs -
The absolute final step to integrating the Canadian Airlines retiree group
into the Pionair family is now complete.
The following are copies of the relevant correspondence.
We are now an 8300 person strong organization with 1600 of our members
coming from the Canadian ranks. This is truly a wonderful achievement and my
congratulations to all.
Regards, Saville
The Director.
Corporations Directorate
Industry Canada
9th Floor
Jean Edmonds Tower, S.
365 Laurier Avenue, W.
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0C8
Dear Sir;
At our Annual General Meeting in Calgary, May 18-20, 2001, our members
present, voted unanimously to accept a motion to offer membership in the Air
Canada Pionairs to retirees of Canadian Airlines International and it's
constituent airlines.
The motion moved was to amend articles 3-1 and 6-2 to include, after the
words 'former employee of Air Canada', the words "or Canadian Airlines
International and its Constituent Airlines".
We kindly request that you consider and approve our amended by-laws as
defined.
Yours truly;
Saville Hambleton
President, Air Canada Pionairs
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Industry Canada File 084956-1
June 7, 2001
Saville Hambleton
1657 Barrett Drive
North Saanich BC
V8L 4Z1
Dear S. Hambleton
RE: By-Law Amendment
Air Canada Pionairs
This will acknowledge receipt of your letter concerning the by-law amendment
which was fully sanctioned by members on May 18-20, 2001.
The amendment has received Ministerial approval as of May 31, 2001.
Sincerely,
Richard G. Shaw
Director General
Corporations Directorate
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. Tom Grant editor of RAPCAN web site sends this tip -
Having trouble receiving email? People phoning you and saying their email to is being bounced back? Well, then maybe you have a full mail box on your ISP's mail server.
ISPs have some restriction on how big your mail box can be. This is not much of a problem for most people because they have their emailers set to take the email they download removed from the mail server at the time they receiver their mail.
But here is an instance that many do not consider. Most people put a size restriction on how large an attachment they will accept with an incoming email message. This prevents large attachments from being downloaded from senders you don't know. If you have a restriction it will probably give a message like this when an incoming email has an attachment that is oversize.
"WARNING: The remainder of this message has not been transferred.
The estimated size of this message is 1653469 bytes.Click on the Retrieve From Server icon above and check mail again to get the whole thing. (If ou're reading this in the preview pane, you'll need to open the message to see the icon.) If the Retrieve From Server icon is not showing, then this message is no longer on the server."
If you know the sender, you download the email and attachment per the instruction. But if you don't know the sender or don't want the attachment, you should not simply ignore this by sending the message to the Trash. Why? Because the large attachment is still sitting on your ISP's mail server taking up space in your mail box. And if you only have, say, 10mb of space, you can see that it wouldn't take many discarded attachments of this size to fill up your mail box and have all incoming mail bounced back to the senders.
What should you do? Follow the procedure as outlined in the Warning, but instead of clicking on the "Retreive From Server" icon, click on the "Delete From Server" icon. As soon as you check for new mail, the email with the attachment will be deleted from the mail server and not downloaded to you.
(The foregoing is based on Eudora Pro. MS Outlook and Outlook Express are similar in function.)
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. From the YYZNEWS issued by Brian Dunn.
On June 25th Air Ontario will takeover all of the flying between Toronto and Cleveland to allow for Air Canada to re-deploy their CRJs on new routes to the Carolinas.
Air Ontario are expected to acquire two additional DHC-8-100s from one of their
Air Canada Regional partners.
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. Terry's travel tips.
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. Smilies.
A Japanese tourist offered a Montreal-based Airport agent $200 CA for his Air Canada Grand Prix shirt. From a customer service perspective, we're sure the agent would give the customer "the shirt from his back," in this case, the agent politely refused, and kept his shirt. Gives a new meaning to how "hot" Air Canada's Grand Prix merchandise is.
. More strange laws sent in by Vern Swerdfeger -
It is against the law for a pilot to tickle a female flying student
under her chin with a feather duster in order to get her attention.
--Columbia, PA
It is a violation for a woman over 200 pounds and attired in shorts to
pilot or ride in an airplane. --Pocataligo, GA
Lingerie can't be hung on a clothesline at the airport unless the
undies are carefully hidden from prying eyes by a "suitable screen".
--Kidderville, NH
No female shall appear in a bathing suit at any airport in this state
unless she is escorted by two officers or unless she is armed with a
club. The provisions of this statue shall not apply to females
weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it
apply to female horses. --Kentucky
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