AFI KLM E&M has extended its GE90 support deal with Air Canada.
(Source: SpeedNews June 23/17)
Chorus Aviation Inc. subsidiary Jazz Technical Services has completed the first Extended Service Program (ESP) life-extension modifications on a Bombardier Dash 8 Series 300, performing the work at its MRO facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Jazz Technical Services (JTS) was formed in 2016 to offer MRO services on Bombardier Dash 8-series, Q-series and CRJ-series aircraft both to parent carrier Jazz Aviation LP, which is holding company Chorus Aviation's biggest asset, and to third-party customers.
Jazz Aviation operates (26) 50-seat Dash 8-300s for the Air Canada Express regional-airline network, as well as two on charter operations under the Jazz operating name. The all-Bombardier operator also flies (16) 37-seat Dash 8-100s, (44) 74-seat Q400s, (11) 50-seat CRJ200s, (16) 75-seat CRJ705s and (5) 76-seat CRJ900s for the Air Canada Express network.
Headquartered in Halifax, Chorus Aviation owns Jazz Aviation and North Bay, Ontario-based Voyageur Aviation. The latter company owns both Voyageur Airways Limited and Voyageur Aerotech Inc.
(Source: MRO news June 2017)
AEROMÈXICO CONNECT leased ex-Air Canada E190 (041) from Nordic Aviation Capital.
(Source: SpeedNews July 7/17)
AIR CANADA carried 166,850 pax (a single-day record) on June 29 2017, and >930,000 over the 6-day holiday period of June 29 - July 4, 2017.
(Source: SpeedNews July 7/17)
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Ms. Ferst had moved to Canada as a young adult, full of spirit and determination. After arriving in Montreal, she moved to Vancouver where she began working as a secretary although she was still dealing with the challenge of learning English. She applied to Air Canada for a flight attendant job in 1972 and, while still struggling with her English skills, passed the training course. However, this ambitious young lady had a career on the flight deck in mind and in 1973 enrolled with the Brampton Flying Club where she began to accumulate the required flying hours. In 1979, she became the first woman in Air Canada to move from the cabin to the cockpit when she was promoted to second officer on the DC-8 fleet. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find out how Ms. Ferst’s career advanced in the following years. We would certainly appreciate any information regarding the rest of her remarkable life and career. Click Here for the article in the July 1977 edition of Horizons Click Here for the October 1979 article on her promotion to first officer. |
| The Amelia Earhart ongoing saga from NetLetter nr 1370 - Latest Earhart Theory Questioned By Russ Niles The History Channel says it’s having a look at a Japanese historian’s claim that a photograph that underpinned a much-hyped television special on the fate of Amelia Earhart was taken two years before she left on her round-the-world flight. As the documentary was hitting the airways, blogger Baron Yamaneko from Japan was posting a digitized image of the same photo, which he said appeared in a Japanese publication in 1935, two years before Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan’s fateful flight. The blogger’s claim hasn’t been proven yet either but he did supply a link to the Japanese government archives with the photo and it is apparently dated 1935. (Source: www.avweb.com July 11/17) |
