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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 477 April 28th, 2000, We first Published in October 1995
Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson - Co-pilot - Terry Baker
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. Need to know.
Bring alternate tickets if you're travelling from Hong Kong.
High passenger loads and weight restrictions due heavy winds on
Toronto-bound Hong Kong flights create a strong possibility of
denied boardings.
Employees are urged to purchase reduced-rate tickets on other carriers
before leaving their home base.
Make sure travel partners are fully aware of the travel partner program
and remind them they can only travel on an Air Canada or Regional
Carrier flight when travelling without the employee.
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. News from the districts.
Don Hancock - Director Vancouver Pionairs sends some more information -
Subject: YVR Pionairs Coffee Clubs
Re our YVR Pionairs District Coffee Clubs.
The four we have undertaken so far are averaging 18 to 30 attendees,
one meeting topped 40 on one occasion.
White Rock is headed up by Wilse & Mary Jessee.
Ladner by Terri Fitzgibbon and Doris Grant.
Tsawassen by Glen Steeves and Marv Lohnes
Richmond by Audrey & Gordon Brown, Stella Einarson, and Don Hancock.
Only two of us have computers, so communication will have to be channelled
through myself or Glen Steeves. (
One of the positives is that we are seeing Pionairs turning out that we have
not seen at a luncheon meeting for considerable time. The Coffee Club
meetings also provided the incentive for others to attend our recent March
22nd Spring Luncheon and to participate in the upcoming AGM April 28-30.
The Coffee Club atmosphere provides the opportunity for Pionairs to become
aquainted with one another, providing two way dialogue, as well as the
opportunity of dispensing current news, and responding to personal queries
and questions that are of concern to the individual.
We plan to start up a Coffee Club location in the fall for Pionairs resident
in North & West Vancouver, and one for Pionairs resident in the Burnaby/New
Wesminster area.
Please indicate that we welcome any and all enquiries via our e mail
addresses or my tel 231-0359 for local calling.
Regards from Don Hancock.
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. From Ross Smyth -
From: Ross Smyth <
Subject: 1910 plaque
Netletter 473 mentioned the plaque commemorating the famous 1910 air meet
held in Pointe Claire. It was vandalized and is no longer there. I talked
to the local newspaper editor about a year ago and he wrote about it
suggesting a local organization might take on a project for a more
permanent memorial. I was there in 1967 when Air Canada president Gordon
McGregor unveiled it because he was present in 1910 as a young boy. He also
addressed the luncheon before local dignitaries organized by the local
Chamber of Commerce. Among the famous events at this famous 1910 air meet,
Jacques de Lesseps made the first ever airplane flight over the City of
Montreal and other records were achieved.
Ross Smyth <
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. Tom Martin sends these observations -
TCA in the darndest places. Reading about the TCA Viscount in NL 473
and seeing the good sized TCA logo at the entrance to the room for the most
recent Vancouver Island Pionairs meeting reminded me that TCA keeps
cropping up.
As I recall, last year a couple of ladies visiting Victoria spotted a TCA logo on a
house on Mt. Tolme. A couple of years ago, our son who lives in a town in
Sweden about 1 1/2 hour drive north of Arlanda airport, was in the local
post office where they have wall posters flogging their services and designed to
attract the customers' eye. He did a double take. One of the new posters
contained artists drawings of various items from the 60s; a vintage Volvo,
radio, etc. but the main item which dominated the poster was a drawing of
a Viscount with Trans-Canada Air Lines across the fuselage, even with a
registration number CF-TCA (not authenic but..).
Our son explained his connection with TCA to the postmaster and asked if he
could have the poster when it was taken down. It now hangs on my den wall,
but there was no explanation of why a TCA Viscount was so prominently
depicted in the Swedish postal system.
Tom Martin - ret. YULJZ <mailto:
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. From the RAPCAN Newsletter issued by Duane Frerichs -
MORE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT INTEGRATION
Question: Is it true that AC plans to have employees from both AC
and CDN work each other's aircraft?
Answer: AC, CDN and the unions will be meeting to discuss how the handling
of the integrated flight schedule will take place. In many locations,
this will involve AC's desire to intermingle employees to make the
most effective use of the resources available.
This has no application to Flight Operations personnel.
Question: I have heard that CDN and AC Maintenance departments will be sold
to another company at the end of the "no-layoff" period in 2002.
Answer: Both AC and CDN have great reputations in the maintenance repair
and overhaul business. We have the opportunity to earn considerable
profit by doing work for third parties. Maintenance and Engineering
at CDN and Technical Operations at AC are profitable businesses and
there is no desire to sell them. Continued growth in profitable business
is our best guarantee against layoffs.
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. Margaret Cantwell makes this suggestion -
I thought I would pass on to you something I did after Ken passed away.
I took all his TCA/Air Canada pins, starting with the very early TCA one, and
right through. When various Aircraft came on the scene a new pin emerged etc.
The Supervisor Pin, and many others. I took them to a framing shop and they
made a wonderful job of putting them on a base and framing (under glass) them.
It really looks wonderful and is a real treasure to leave for the family.
It is just a suggestion for the net letter.
Some folks made have already done that but if not and have these lovely pins
in a drawer somewhere, they might want to do it. Especially now with the merger,
things are changing again and all these pins are our Air Canada history.
There will be many varieties I am sure depending on the employee's position.
Just a thought ! ...Cheers....Margaret C.
(What about readers! - How about telling us about any airline collections
you have - eds)
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