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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

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Alex’s Story

One of my amusing memories of the airport was the nights 'MJ' and I handled the Canada 3000 flight – Toronto-Belfast-Lamezia.

Travel agents sold the flight to passengers without advising them that it made 2 stops (Northern Ireland and Italy).

When we announced boarding in English and Italian the response was predictable; a stream of confused Italian passengers approached the counter wondering where this “Belifaste” place was and passengers heading to Belfast were equally bewildered with “Lamezia”.

What started out – with confused looks and “Where the (bleep)” – ended with smiles and laughter as everyone finally understood what the flight routing was. When the boarding began we usually called out the sequence numbers in Italian and Belfast bound passengers sometimes asked if this was a special security code.

To write about it might not seem so funny, but to be there as we dispatched that flight was quite a different story as passengers performed like the cast of a Fellini film….Alex

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