~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |\^/| _| TCA |_ _|\| AIR |/|_ N E T L E T T E R > CANADA < B E T W E E N O U R S E L V E S >_./|\._< for P I O N A I R S | Your crew is: Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson Chief Navigator - Terry Baker tm number 68 date June 21st 1996 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . Tom Martin has changed his email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Ray Valois has gone back to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Delays of up to 20 minutes can be expected at Pearson Airport (YYZ) due to an ATC flow control problem which can only handle 42 flight movements per hour between 1500 and 2300 instead of the usual 56 flight movements. . Vancouver Island Pionairs picnic is planned for August 7th at Mount Douglas park near Victoria. . Found on the Internet - TWO JETS HAVE CLOSE ENCOUNTER AT NEW YORK'S JFK AIRPORT An America West Boeing 757 cleared for landing and an American Airlines Airbus taking off on a parallel runway had a near miss at Kennedy Airport Monday. The FAA is looking into the circumstances surrounding the loss of separation. SPOOKED BRITS WON'T REBOARD SMOKING DC-10 Ninety-one of its 346 British passengers refused to reboard an Excalibur Airways charter DC-10 after smoke seeped into the cabin from air-conditioning vents while the plane was taxiing out for take off at Orlando. Some went to hotels, others slept at the airport--while their baggage flew on to Manchester. Yet another airline in the budget flight market has emerged. Luton UK based Debonair plan to start services on 19th. June to Dusseldorf, Barcelona, and Munich. Further links to Newcastle, Madrid and Copenhagen are planned from the 10th. July and 17th. August. They are flying BAe 146 aircraft. A software glitch at the First National Bank of Chicago dumped US$924.8 million into a check account. A customer, realizing the bank would probably not let him keep the money, recorded the message on his home telephone answering machine for prosperity. "Your primary check account currently has a book balance of US$924,844,208.32" recited the First Chicago electronis message. Air Canada wants to swoop in on airline rivals with a Web site overhaul that will include, amongst other improvements, the ability to make reservations via the internet. The goal is to offer the customer more ways to get flight, frequent flyer and destination and fare information.Travel agents are protesting some airlines' plans to let Web customers bypass agents for ticketing and other services. Chief steward on the Garuda DC10 which caught fire on take off revealed that the mainly Japanese passengers could not be warned of the impending disaster due to a language barrier. ~-=o0o=-~ . Interline travel Airline employees, retirees, parents & companions sharing - Puerto Vallarta - 'Diamond Resort Nuevo Vallarta' - $40 'Playa de Oro' - $33 'The Royal Maeva' - $53 Manzanilla - 'Club Maeva' - $47 Mazatlan - 'The Caravelle Beach Club' - $54 Acapulco - 'The Continental Plaza' from $42 Huatulco - 'Royal Maeva' - $53 'Caribbean Village' - $40 prices US pp dbl per night. Call 905-454-3987 for details Norwegian Cruise Lines m/s Star Odyssey 12 days British Isles Jun 9 & Jun 21 12 days North Cape Jul 3 12 days Scandinavian Jul 15 all departing Dover UK Outside US$699 pp dbl plus port charges & taxes m/s Royal Odyssey 7 days Alaska leave Vancouver to Anchorage Jul 3, 17, 31 and Aug 14 7 days Alaska leave Anchorage to Vancouver Jul 10, 24 and Aug 7 Outside US$499 deluxe outside US$599 pp dbl plus port charges & taxes Call 1-800-665-3100 for more details ~-=o0o=-~ . Smilies - John Doney sends us these reasons for Why I haven't answered my E-mail: * My hard disk went floppy (sounds like a personal problem...) * My C.P.U. said C.U.L8ER. * I can't figure out how to use Windows since my cat ate my mouse. * My V.32bis modem broke and my communication program is rejecting my 300 baud modem as "too slow". ~-=o0o=-~ . That's it for this time, please we need your input, send comments and email addresses of any others who may be interested to Vesta with a copy to Terry. -!- Landing on an Island in the Pacific. _____(~)_____ ! ! ! This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. <<<>>> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ................................................... . GREETINGS FROM . . Vancouver Island . . BEAUTIFUL B.C. CANADA . ...................................................
