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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 645 Dec 18th, 2001, We first Published in October 1995
Number 645 Dec 18th, 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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. Definitely MUST know!
From Employee Communications -
Family Affair Program Travel Deadlines.
Please be advised, the 2001 Family Affair program has been extended for
travel up to Feb 28, 2002. In addition, inbound travel must also be
completed by this date.
C1 Passes Extended For Another Year. Good news on the use of C1/J10 passes!
The new once-a-year, higher priority ticket is available to
employees/RETIREES/widows and widowers holding C2/Y10 priority, and is
being extended until the end of 2002.
The passes for next year can be ordered starting Jan. 14. Zone one charges
are $70;
zone two, $100; zone three, $160.
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. Need to know.
Employee communications advises -
Are You Still Waiting For Pass Charge Deductions?
Since the introduction of the new pass forms and the expanded
parent/partner allotment in October 2000, Winnipeg Finance has
been inundated with work. During the peak summer season, as many
as 20,000 pass deductions were processed weekly. To ensure that deductions
are calculated properly, the system waits until all coupons from each pass
booklet have been received. Delays are also
a result of illegible handwriting or a faint imprint of your
employee ID card. You can help reduce the delays and chances of
mis-charges by completing passes as neatly and accurately as possible. Your
patience is appreciated while Winnipeg deals with
the current backlog.
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. Air Canada news -
IBM And Air Canada Test A Joint Initiative Wireless Check-in Trial
Begins.
Beginning today until Jan. 15, Toronto airport will test-drive a
new tool that is designed to make processing customers easier and reduce
check-in times. Using a hand-held wireless check-in devise, our Customer
Sales & Service Agents will be able to move around
and issue boarding passes at locations other than the check-in counter. The
pass will be a 3 x 6-inch single sheet of paper with
no coupon pocket or passenger stub. During this trial period agents at all
stations may encounter customers with this type of boarding pass. They
should be processed in the usual manner.
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. Found on the internet.
December 15, 2001 - Glenn Miller's Plane 'Was Hit By British Bombs'
LONDON, England - A new TV documentary claims Glenn Miller died after his
plane was hit by British bombs.
The Channel 4 programme says a fleet of Lancasters unwittingly jettisoned
their bombs onto the band leader.
Glenn Miller's Last Flight will be shown on New Year's Eve.
The theory was first put forward by Fred Shaw, a navigator on one of the
Lancasters, reports the Guardian.
His account is backed up by aviation historian Roy Nisbet.
Miller went missing on December 15, 1944 en route to Paris. The plane has
never been found.
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. May Day!
After running the story fromPhil Pawsey in NetLetter 644 re the TCA
Stewardess interview, we received this request -
Has anyone kept last week's newspaper The Gazette ?
I am interested in reading the article concerning
"TCA's Stewardesses" and keeping a copy in the Air Canada Archives.
The article is an interview from the TCA Stewardesses namely
LUCILLE GRANT;DOROTHY GILMORE-LABELLE;MARJORIE CROWLEY AND
MARGARET TOWNSEND.
I would like to have a copy of this interview (paper clipping)
if possible?
Can you please send me this article to the address below.
I want to thank you in advance.
Cheers
Caterina Trotto
Air Canada Corporate Records/Archives
address:
Air Canada Centre
internal zip: YUL 1273
7373 Cote Vertu West
P.O. Box 14000
Dorval, Quebec
Att: Caterina Trotto (Archives)
phone: (514) 422-4459
email:
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. From our flight deck -
TOWER OF PISA REOPENS
Now that a little of the lean has been taken out of Italy's Leaning
Tower of Pisa, it's open to visitors for the first time in almost 12
years.
Vesta
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. British Airways has opened a new Archive Air Museum in building 387 at
Heathrow. BA and its predecessors now go back 82 years, ensompasing 50
different companies.
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. Terry's travel tips.
Some more hotels which have offered interline rates -
Singapore
Robertson Quay Hotel offers 25% discount phone 65-733-3323 fax
65-738-1515
Sydney
Holiday Inn Old Sydney offers between 24% and 41% depending upon season.
phone
61-2-92520524 fax 61-2-92512093
Tokyo
Sofitel Tokyo offers up to 25% discount. phone 81-03-56857111 fax
81-03-56856171
Vienna
Cordial Theatre Hotel offers up to 50% discount phone 43-732-7660-60
Murray Phipps advises us that to renew your Canadian passport will now
more.
For mail-in applications allow at least 26 days, and 10 working days
for collection in person. The Canadian passport is for 5 years.
24-page passport: for persons over 16 years of age: $85,
for a child of 3-15 years of age: $35, for a child under 3 years of age: $20
48-page passport: for persons over 16 years of age: $90,
for a child of 3-15 years of age: $37, for a child under 3 years of age: $22
You may pay the fee in cash (do not mail cash), by money order (postal or
bank), by certified cheque, by credit card (VISA, MasterCard, AMERICAN
EXPRESS) or by debit card (Interac). The fee is payable to the Receiver
General for Canada. www.ppt.gc.ca has all the gory
details.
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Smilies.
*** Frequent Fliers Get Back Up
LATimes -- It's been a rough morning for Peter Van
Zandt's briefcase. First, airport security wrestled it
to the ground and pulled up the lining. Then it was passed
through the X-ray machine--seven times--with various
contents in and out. Security screeners scrutinized his
Dictaphone like it was some find from an archeological dig.
The San Francisco lawyer knows how his briefcase feels. A
few days before, it was Van Zandt who stepped through a
metal detector that wouldn't stop its angry bleating until
he had practically disrobed. After two decades molding
himself into a master of airports, the seasoned business
flier, husband and father of four was reduced to running
for the gate, his belt in one hand, a shoe in the other.
He missed the plane. And he had arrived two hours early.
Over the years, Van Zandt, 40, has flown through scary
weather and waited out fog. He flew after his father was
killed in a small-plane accident and after a Boeing 727
carrying him across South America banked so hard it
almost turned over.
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