Keith Miller, WACA Administration Manager, sent us these photographs -
Members of the Headquarters Committee of the World Airlines Clubs Association receive their certificates of appreciation in Manila in 1984.
Four Air Canada employees were among those so honoured. Pictured left to right:
Gary Parker, Human Resources, Montreal; Izzy Hnybida, Finance Winnipeg; Marie-France Musorrafiti, Human Resources, Montreal; Linda Hutsen, enRoute, Montreal.
Looking on were Joe Ledwos, Manager WACA Headquarters (retired Publishing Supervisor, Air Canada); Gerry Philbrook, President of WACA, (Manager, Employee & Interline Travel Service, Air Canada); David Larkin, Secretary General and President - elect - WACA, (Buyer British Airways, London, England); Fransisco Valdez, of TAP - Air Portugal and a member of the Headquarters Committee being honoured.
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Joe Ledwos, Manager WACA Headquarters (retired Publishing Supervisor, Air Canada); receives his certificate of appreciation for his services as Manager of the WACA Headquarters office in Montreal - 1984.
Pictured left to right:
Julio Seiz, Vice President Sports & International Events and Secretary General elect WACA (Facilities Programs Manager Air Canada, Montreal); David Larkin, Secretary General & President elect WACA (British Airways, London, England); Joe Ledwos and Gerry Philbrook, Retiring President of WACA, (Manager, Employee & Interline Travel Service, Air Canada, Montreal).
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The year 2016, will be the 50th anniversary of WACA and the Council looked at the possibilities of organizing an Interline Celebration in Cannes to commemorate this occasion 50 years ago.
Robert Tabak, one of WACA's founders and ex-Swissair employee based in Brussels, Belgium, sent us these pictures of the meeting in France.
Pictures (top row):
The first WACA meeting in Cannes, France, 1966. The first Belgium Interline Club Meeting in 1965 in Brussels.
Pictures (bottom row):
Cocktails at first WACA meeting, 1966. Members of the Belgium Club to the first WACA meeting in Cannes posing at Nice-Cote D'Azur Airport next to a Sabena Caravelle.
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