Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

1995 -

• June 1 - Air Canada went on-line with the internet and CompuServe networks.
• June 20 - Inauguration of service between Toronto and Tel Aviv.

Found in the "Horizons" magazine.

Issue dated July 1995.

At a ceremony at the 1995 Paris Air Show, capped by a spectacular fly-by, Air Canada took delivery of its first Airbus A340, making it the first North American operator of the four-engine, long-range aircraft. The market value of an A340 is approximately U.S. $120 million.

Whirlwind tour of Osaka.

Sixteen Passenger Sales Agents from Vancouver Reservations travelled to Osaka, Japan to learn more about Air Canada's newest destination.

According to Sakina Agha, it was an action-packed three days of touring. "This was a memorable trip," she said, "and it was hard to say 'sayonara' to Osaka. Our trip not only enhanced our knowledge of Japan, but also helped the group form a special bond with one another."

Front row, from left to right: May Bakhtiar, Jaydee Collins, Mila Ubungen-chee, Kyoko Kabaya and Adeline Chen.

Back row, from left to right: Nasrine Shambayati, Kirsten Park, Leslie Kozak, Carole Sehn, Dale Takasaki, Anne Mourton, Sakina Agha, Karen Friedrich, Olivier Grebert, Heather March, Junko Kono, Yoshi Takiya, Margaret Popkey and Barry Bakhtiar.

Issue dated August 1995.

Keith Wallace, Calgary Customer Sales and Service Agent delighted colleagues and customers by wearing his original TCA uniform on his last day of work after 36 years of service.

"How many of us could do that?," asks his wife Maureen who also works for Air Canada.

G-7 Summit Brings World to Halifax

Japan was one of eight countries to attend the Summit in Halifax where Air Canada performed all the ground handling for the event.

Members of the ramp team included Bev Sanford, Lead Station Attendant; Gerry Staples, Summit Office, Shearwater Airport; Kim Horne, Acting Training Instructor; Keith Sharon, Summit Office, Halifax Airport; Steve Macdonald, Customer Service Manager - Halifax; Mike Whitehead, Training Instructor; Lead Station Attendants Dereck Pepler, Al Young, Carl Skinner, Shaun Dauphinee, and Rob Pepler.

Industry Travel, Dorval, honoured Administrative Assistant Pascale Seguin-Tams on her 25th service anniversary.

From left to right: Denise Depass, Acting Coordinator; Coordinators Caroline Tune and Linda Kwoon; Irene Vazalinskas, Manager; Pascale Seguin-Tams, Valerie Woods, Coordinator; Ghislain Ouellet and Irene Thoma-Dore, PNR Assistant.

Missing from the photo is Judy Smandych.

Members of the crackerjack Tel Aviv start-up.

The team included, left to right: Jim McCall, Cargo Sales Coordinator - Prestwick; Mike "Mr. Belly" Bailey, Operations Coordinator - Heathrow; Steve Ruffle, Commissary Agent - Heathrow; Roddy McPhee, Customer Service Manager - Prestwick; Deborah Gilbrook, Customer Sales & Service Coordinator - Heathrow and Howard Lewis, Load Agent - Heathrow.