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( For retirees of the new Air Canada family)
Number 533 Nov 10th, 2000, We first Published in October 1995
Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson - Co-pilot - Terry Baker
email address is
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. Need to know.
Sneak preview—check out the Employee Travel Website and Aeronet site.
The new Employee Travel Website and Aeronet sites are up and running
and waiting for you to check them out. All active and retired self-ticketing
Air Canada employees will soon receive a letter and user guide for the
Employee Travel Website. Your Speech Recognition Personal Identification
Number (PIN) does double duty—use it to access Speech Recognition or the
website—www.travel.aircanada.ca. Active and retired Air Canada regional
carriers, Canadian and Canadian Regional employees will be able to log on
in early 2001.
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. We welcome -
Ray George retired Canadian Airlines as Inspector/Foreman living in Richmond, BC
email:
Bob & Dorothy Jarvis Bob was a former Foreman, Finishing Shop, (Dorval, Que.)
lives in Hamilton, ON email <
Udo Kogelheide Cat 23 - mechanic...Terminal 2 Millwright Shop - Malton
Roy Miles Customer Service Agent lives in Oshawa, ON
email is
lives in Toronto, ON
Thomas Palmer is at
Wulf Graunitz Cargo Agent (ret.), Toronto email
Email to
living in Hudson, QC retired Manager, Flight Safety
Jack Geddes retired Customer Service Manager ( YQT) living in Pass Lake, ON
email is
Don Stewart email
retired 1982. Living in Scarborough, ON
Lloyd (Tommy) Dean
Marg/Bob Eaton
Les McMahon
Gary Sands
Ken McIntyre tells us that his correct email is
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. Need to know.
Technical difficulties preventing some employees from entering Speech Recognition are resolved.
Please remember, eligible passengers are limited to self-ticketing employees,
spouses, and children. Differences in travel priorities mean you must create two
separate passenger name records (PNRs) when your itinerary includes both Air Canada and Canadian or Regional flights.
Active and retired employees of Canadian Airlines and the Regional Carriers
will have access to the system in early 2001.
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. News from the districts.
Ken McLeod, in Halifax, sends this information -
The Halifax and District Pionairs decided this year to have a Christmas Luncheon
rather than the usual dinner and dance as in past years.
The location is the same...The Armdale Yacht Club...Tues. December 12th..
starting at 1130 to 1230 for meeting and greeting...then Lunch from 1230 to 1400.
Tickets are only $ 10.00 per person but you must purchase them in advance as we
are not planning on selling tickets at the door due to noshos in past years.
You may contact yours truly...Ken McLeod at 902-457-2713 for tickets/info
or send cheques to me at 254 Kearney Lake Road, Halifax, B3M 3P8.
Please make cheques payable to Air Canada Pionairs.
Tickets must be purchased by Saturday, Dec 9th.
Also we would like to extend a warm welcome to all CAIRE Retirees in the area,
please feel free to attend and if you need any info please call.
Thanks everyone and hope to see you there....Ken
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. Bill Sansom has sent us his bio -
Here is a bio of my AC experience.
Started working at AC in July 62 as a Learner Mechanic in the accessory shop.
Moved out to the DC-8 maintenance overhaul check in the fall of 62. I then transferred
to Dorval LIne Maintenance on a DC-8/DC-9 crew. In February 1966 I transferred to
Flight Dispatch in UL. In Nov 66 transferred to VR as an Assistant Flight Dispatcher.
In February 1969, I was promoted to a Flight Dispatcher and transferred back to UL
where I remained until 1978 when the Corporation consolidated all of Flight Dispatch
in Toronto.
In 1983 I was promoted to Shift Manager, Flight Dispatch. In 1986, I accepted a
position of Manager, Flying Operations in Flight Operations Headquarters UL and
remained there until 1991 when I was transferred back to YZ as a Shift Manager
in Flight Dispatch due to the "right sizing" of Flight Operations.
In 1993, I accepted a position in Flight Safety As Manager, Flight Safety and on
Sept 01, 2000, I retired after 38 yrears, 1 month and 27 days with TCA/Air Canada.
As a side note, my father, William P. Sansom retired in Oct 74 with 34 years and 3
months service and my sister, Maxine Sansom retired on Oct 01, 2000, with 34 years,
3months.
Oct 01, 2000 was the first time in 60 years that a Sansom was not on the active
payroll of TCA/Air Canada and we accumulated over 106 tears of service.
Bill Sansom (<mailto:
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. Found on the internet.
Nicotine Substitutes Now on the Menu at Air France.
Some help is in the air for smokers who must endure long haul flights. Air France
has announced that flight attendants will begin handing out nicotine substitute
tablets to help passengers suffering from a new smoking ban on flights.
The airline has decided to extend its ban on smoking along Asian, African,
South American and Middle Eastern routes. The airline already enforces a ban on
smoking along long-haul flights to North American, Caribbean and Indian Ocean
destinations. There will also be a doctor specializing in smoking disorders that can
help passengers in the airline’s main Paris terminal.
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. May Day!
Margaret Cantwell is trying to locate someone -
If Bob Ward, who was with Air Canada in Toronto and who knows Bob Tyson
and Rob Neillands in England, would contact me please at his convenience.
My E mail address is
(Mrs.) Margaret Cantwell 377 Walton Place, Victoria, B.C. V9E 2A4 Canada
Thank you,
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. Help!
Subject: history question
Dear TCA persons:
In 1943/4 (I was 7) I made a trip with my mother and aunt via TCA from
Moncton NB to Charlottetown PEI in a very small plane (7 passengers) that
also carried the bags of mail.
I'm now designated "memoir writer" for the family and I'd like to write up a bit
about that trip. But I want to make it more useful by getting correct terminology
and facts.
What kind of plane would it have been?
How high would we have flown? (We could see women hanging out their wash
as we passed over)
Our memories say that we paid about $11 (maybe $7 for me).
Is there a resource for such information?
Thanks Eva Haddix
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. From the YYZNEWS issued by Brian Dunn -
The fuselage remains of the Air Canada CRJ that was written off (C-FSKI)
at Fredericton NB has appeared at the Dodson scrap yard in Rantoul KS!
(cn# 7068 - eds)
AIRLINERS INTERNATIONAL - TORONTO
Airline and Aviation Collectables Show
Saturday, November 11, 2000 --- 1000 to 1500hrs
New location at Holiday Inn Toronto Airport East
(corner of Dixon Rd. & Martin Grove & Hwy #401)
For more detailed information, or to reserve a table for yourself please
contact Steve Emmins at (
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. Terry's travel tips.
Brought to you by "Interlining Plus" formerly Canadian Interline Travel
Don't forget, Parents & Friends are welcome!
10-night to the Caribbean from $34/day us
Aboard the Zenith Inside from $340 us Ocean from $440 us
Cruising from Ft. Lauderdale return - departs November 27th, 2000
7-day Acapulco to San Francisco Aboard Dawn Princess
Inside from $534 us Ocean View stateroom from $804 us departs May 3, 2001
7-day Acapulco to San Francisco Aboard Sun Princess
Inside from $534 us Ocean View stateroom from $784 us departs May 5, 2001
14-day Australia/New Zealand Regal Princess Inside from $569 us
Ocean View stateroom from $969 us departs November 22, 2000
Sailing from Sydney to Auckland **Reverse itinerary December 6, 2000
15-day South Pacific Regal Princess Inside from $569 us
Departs December 20, 2000 Sailing from Sydney to Papeete (Tahiti)
call toll free 1-800-665-3100
All rates are per person double occupancy - taxes + port charges not
included.
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. Smilie.
A PIG IN A POKE ON A NONSTOP TO SEA:
Finally, the no-kidding winner of 'when pigs fly' award. All was normal on
USAirways Flight 107 from Philadelphia to Seattle recently until a 300-pound pig
was brought on board and given the first row of first class. During taxi at SEA, the
porker ran squealing through the cabin and then jammed itself into the galley, where
it refused to budge until given food (bacon bits?) The owners managed to drag the
porcine pax onto the jetway where it left a calling card for the other deplaning
passengers, one of whom got a shoeful.
A USAirways spokesman admits that the airline is humiliated about the whole thing
and promises that pigs will never fly again.
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