Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

United Airlines is ordering 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 100 737 MAX airplanes, a major order as the air carrier pushes for post-pandemic growth and replaces older less-efficient aircraft.

The Chicago-based airline's order for 200 airplanes has list prices of about $43 billion and is a big boost to the U.S. plane maker that has faced political and production issues for the two planes this year.

Source: boeing.mediaroom.com

Bob Sheppard, of The NetLetter team, shares this story -

We were in Scotland in 1997 for the World Pipe Band Championships.

On our return flight, on a B-767, one of the Flight Attendants became aware that there was a piper on board. She asked our son, Ashton, if he had his pipes on board and yes, they were in the overhead bin.

Soon, Ashton was putting on a private performance, to the delight of our fellow passengers.

Salmon n’ Bannock now open at YVR, becomes first Indigenous restaurant in a Canadian airport.

Under the stewardship of proprietor Inez Cook, a member of the Nuxalk Nation and a former Air Canada flight attendant, 'Salmon n’ Bannock On The Fly' will give international travellers a taste of Canada’s Indigenous cuisine

Vancouver's only Indigenous restaurant, Salmon n’ Bannock, opened at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on Monday, December 19, 2022 making it the first Indigenous restaurant in a Canadian airport. Before co-founding Salmon n’ Bannock in 2010, Cook was a flight attendant for 33 years; she was based out of YVR for 25 years.

Source: 
www.yvr.ca/en/media

Gail Bennett responded to the photo in NetLetter #1500 -

So pleased to see a photo of the Georgetown Girls Pipe Band at Toronto. I have a newspaper photo of the band posing on the stairs up to the aircraft. This was before my time but I was a member for almost 50 years. The band, formed in 1942, dropped "Girls" in 1996 and is still performing today.

See www.georgetownpipeband.ca

By the way, my husband, Keith Bennett, was a cargo agent for 30+ years in Toronto.