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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 494 June 13th, 2000, We first Published in October 1995
Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson - Co-pilot - Terry Baker
email address is
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. We welcome -
Doris Timmins who started with TCA in Dec of' '45 in Reservations Halifax and retired
from the City Ticket Office Halifax on Jan 1/83. Email
I am a retired Canadian Airlines Maintenance employee based at YVR
My name is Bill Wood and my E Mail is
Maddie Youngman retired from CAIL 3 years ago email
George Court retired pilot with CAIL lives in Belleville, Ont.
email:
Brian Walsh retired from CAIL and living in Victoria, BC
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. Need to know.
Integrated employee travel policy news. For the peak summer period, the Family Affair program remains unchanged—it’s valid on Air Canada or Regional Carrier operated flights only, and Air Canada’s travel partner and Canadian Airlines’ guest travel programs can’t be extended on the other carrier. Effective today, boarding priority for all active employees will be based on Company service date and retired employees on length of service, rather than the current practice of time of check-in or date of registration. Air Canada and its Regional Carrier employees will travel on Canadian Airlines with an S4J6 boarding priority—the same as Canadian Airlines’ retirees with less than 25 years service. Canadian Airlines and Canadian Regional Airlines’ employees will travel on Air Canada and its Regional Carriers with a C4/Y10 boarding priority—the same as Air Canada’s Regional Carrier employees.
Changes are in effect when listing for standby and Family Affair travel. Increasing number of calls have recently added to the challenge of keeping call wait times for active and retired employees to a minimum. Effective today, active and retired employees purchasing a Family Affair ticket or wanting to list for standby travel can call the local General Reservations office or the Employee Call Centre. This initiative is part of the Call Centre’s two-year project called Call Centre Automation Initiatives.
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. From the YYZNEWS issued by Brian Dunn -
On June 5th Canadian Airlines introduced another one of their recent acquisitions to
YYZ with the appearance of another leased 767-3H5 (FIN 651) ex ZK-NCM.
The aircraft arrived from and departed to Vancouver.
The aircraft is actually leased to Air Canada by ITOCHU AirLease, but operated by
Canadian Airlines.
After the collapse of the proposed merger between KLM and Alitalia it is now evident
that KLM is talking to British Airways about a possible merger, that would create the
world's third-largest airline. The combined airline would be valued at more than
$7.5billion with a fleet of almost 600 aircraft.
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. Update on ACFamily.net web site from Tom Grant -
Just to let you know a new item has been added to the Airshared portion of the A-Crew and RAPCAN websites. We know some of you are new to the Internet so we thought we could help you out by having a webpage with helpful tips.
When you log onto either website you will find a separate link on the About Us page called "Internet Tips." This link will take you to a listing on "virus control", "email" and "websites of note."
Viewers are invited to make submissions to add to the tips. However, for discuss or questions you are referred to the Conference Area on the ACFamily Network website at www.acfamily.net.
The HEADLINE NEWS is a feature of the A-Crew and RAPCAN websites.
This service was put online to complement existing email news services you receive.
It has been just over a month since we started this service.
We have been please with the response from readers so far and the time-frame for
putting news online from varied Internet sources has been met.
What is the advantage of this feature to our readers:
1. Relevant articles to our readership base such as: Canadian commercial aviation,
aviation travel, Air Canada news, and Canadi>n news. However, articles are not
limited to these areas, for example, an article relating to the Internet may be posted
if it is relevant to our readers and their use of the World Wide Web and email.
2. The postings are current as possible given the resources available to our website.
The feature is updated once, sometime three times, daily during the week depending
on the rate of relevant news that comes in.. Articles over ten days are usually deleted,
except some articles relating to Air Canada and Canadi>n that may be relevant for a
longer period of time. However, most articles will be offline after 30 days.
3. The format is a "headline" format. In that we mean a headline is given in a listing on
the opening page. The reader can then make a decision on whether to read further.
If so, a link to a full article or abstract is given. If the link is to an abstract, there is
usually a link on that specific page to further details. And once again the reader can
decide whether or not to read more. This format saves the reader from scrolling through
lines and lines of text to see what is online.
4. The news is online 24 hours a day 7 days a week so the readers can view the
headlines at their convenience.
We do not presume to be a "wire service", more of a clipping service in a sense.
For those that would like to be inundated with news, there are innumerable services on
the Internet that one can subscribe to.
We hope you will find this website feature useful and as always your comments are
appreciated.
Tom Grant Editor
A-Crew WWW site www.acfamily.net/acrew
RAPCAN WWW site www.acfamily.net/rapcan
Coming Soon CMW WWW site www.acfamily.net/maplewings
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. Remember when?
Trans-Canada Air Lines inaugurated feeder service linking Charlottetown Airport, P.E.I.
with Moncton in April 1941 with Lockheed L10A aircraft.
Montreal to Toronto via Val d'Or with a stop at Earlton Airport, Ontario was operated
by C.P.A. in November 1952 and later taken over by T.C.A. until December 1973.
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. Found on the internet.
BRITISH AIRWAYS HOLDING TALKS WITH KLM...
In the 1990s, it was merger-mania time for the major aerospace companies, and now
it looks like this may be the decade of airline mergers. With economic pressure in
the airline industry leading to numerous consolidations, British Airways is holding
informal merger discussions with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
The discussions take place amid the proposed $11.6-billion takeover of US Airways
by UAL, parent of United Airlines.
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. Help! A mayday from Jack Morath - UK
I would like information about doing a tour of the South Pacific Islands.
Any information ie where can I write to for a suggested itinerary by air to cover the area.
Would like a package deal of some kind. I believe that there is a price for air travel
covering many Islands. Is there an Airline that does this or a travel agent somewhere.
Would appreciate any thing so that I can make a start on planning.
Jack Morath
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. Terry's travel tips.
Latest Air Canada schedule effective June 12th until March 31st, 2001 is available
for download on aircanada.ca web site.
Interline Plus has these offerings -
ALL- INCLUSIVE RESORT
Allegro Resort Bavaro 7 nights in Dominican Republic
from $385 us extra person from $350 us Child stay for free
Allegro Resort Bavaro Grande 7 nights in Dominican Republic
from $525 us extra person from $393.75 us Child stay for free
Caribbean Village Playa Grande 7 nights in Dominican Republic
from $395 us extra person from 393.75 us Child from $262.50 us
Jack Tar Village, Puerto Plata 7 nights in Dominican Republic
from $525 us extra person from $350 us Adult Oriented
Jack Tar Village Montego Bay 7 nights in Jamaica
from $577.50 us extra person from $455 us Adult Oriented
Jack Tar Village St-Kitts 7 nights in St-Kitts
from $489 us exXtra person $358.75 us Adult Oriented
Caribbean Village Fiesta 7 night in Costa Rica
from $489 us extra person $393.75 us Child from $262.50 us
Now through December 23rd *** Must be booked by June 30th, 2000
CALL FOR MUCH MORE DESTINATIONS & AMAZING PRICES!
1-800-665-3100
Dargal The Interline Agency to the World has this for us -
The good life aboard Star Clipper. Sail 7 nights to the Grenadine Isles
Departs Barbados calling at Martinique, St. Lucia, Bequia, Tobago Cays,
Grenada and Grenadines.
Rate from us$695 pp dbl plus port fees
valid July 2, 16, 30; Aug 13, 17; Sept 10 and 24th.
How about the Orient Express?
Departs July 6th or August 3rd.
15 days from Beijing to Moscow. An exceptional travel experience.
The train is owned and operated by a Swiss company and offers lectures both
educational and informal discussions aboard the train.
The carriages are the opriginal built in the 1920's and 30's and beautifully restored.
us$6,299 pp dbl includes airfare.
The best of Britian!
Touring 14 days from London visiting Salisbury, Looe, Plymouth, Bristol,
Clayton-le-Moors, Lake District, Glasgow, Loch Lomond, Fort William,
Grantown, Hoghlands, a Skye Excursion, Edinburgh, York, Stratford,
Coventry, Bladon, Oxford and back to London.
From ca$2042 pp dbl
Call 1-800-690-3223 for details.
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. Smilie.
I GUESS I SHOULDA SAID "HELLO, JACK" INSTEAD:
A simple greeting to a man named Jack on a bizjet caused an uproar at Oakland
International Airport outside Detroit, Mich., on Monday. "There was a guy on the
plane named Jack, and someone walked in and said, 'Hi, Jack,'" police Lt. Rick Crigger
said. "The mike just happened to be open and the tower heard it." Thinking someone
might be hijacking the corporate jet, controllers called in the local police and SWAT
team.
Back in the days before altitude alerters were mandatory, but with
altitude reporting installed, a crew was climbing their BAC 1-11 up to
an assigned altitude of 17,000 feet. At about 17,700 feet, the pilot
flying noticed the inadvertent altitude bust and started back down
towards 17,000.
Just as he was getting ready to level off, ATC called: "NXXXXX, say
your altitude."
The fast-thinking captain replied, "Just passing through 17,000."
Whereupon the faster-thinking controller asked, "Which way?"
Janet Grunwald -Polasek sends this groaner!
Q: What is a terminal illness?
A: When you are sick at the airport.
and from Albert Sorignet
hangers are for coats and hangars are for airplanes.
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