During March, the Edmonton Commissary department moved into the vacant cargo area. The Cargo department had moved into its new terminal the previous year. The new facilities provided vastly improved working conditions.

Commissary employees shown at the opening are, from the left: A. Wenger, D. Magnan, B. Mytrunec, L. Hodgins, M. Terletski, B. Terletski, S. Tozer, A. Swedberg, A. Deck, R. Ranjani, C. Not (background), S. Kennedy, D. Hawkes, M. Neek, C. Parkes, S. Webb and R. Brownee.

July 1 - the introduction of sleeperettes on the Atlantic service using Boeing 747 equipment. The next phase would be the introduction on the L1011-500 services to Europe.

In Montreal, Walt Miller, Manager Passenger Accommodations, left, shows the new sleeperettes to Robert Grenier, Flight Attendant.

Pierre Jeanniot visited Europe offices during the spring of 1982; he hosted a dinner meeting in Frankfurt for off-line managers.

This is a photo of the attendees, from the left: Gunther Veeser, Norway; Poul Larsen, Denmark; Roland Noedgren, Sweden & Finland; Jeanniot, Nina Tegeltiza, Belgrade; Hurst Warm, Austria & South-East Europe, and Laszic Hingyl, Budapest.

A "first" for Stores occurred, early in 1989, when the entire Dorval Stores operation was under feminine control.

On the midnight shift, Peggy Sullivan was the Expediter and senior management person on duty, with Mary Linda Brom as the Communicator, and Kathy White on Communicator training.

The operation went as smoothly as at any other time and no "sexism" is intended in mentioning this. It’s just worth noting because it's about time and because it probably won't be the last time this happens. Our photo has, from the left: Kathy White, Peggy Sullivan and Mary Linda Brom.

The Bristol Britannia incident.

Ted Tierney sent us this story in 2001. This is an event of 40 odd years ago. 

"It's Ted here with an incident relating to the Bristol Britannia airplane, not a pleasant or complimentary episode concerning that aircraft but rather about a human failing, with no slight intended towards the individual involved. My own failings come to mind more easily. So with that out of the way it all happened like this."

Extracted from the "CPA - Newsletter" magazine issue dated May 1967.

"GO-GO TO EUROPE" was a swinging success at Toronto's Royal York Hotel for over 800 travel agents, journalists and airline reps.

Participating are from the left: Linda Thwaites, P.R. department; Phylis Morita, reservations; DSM Gene Goff; Pina Sperduli, reservations and Yvonne Mithrush, District sales office.

The EXPO '67 opening in Montreal on April 28th was marked by Tokyo employees with a window display and placard.

 Japan is especially interested in Canada's world exhibition because the next one was being held in Osaka and named EXPO '70.

In this photo from the left are: Passenger agents Teruo Yamida, Kasatuka Nagato, stewardess Kazuko Togashi and passenger agent Yoshimasa Matsumoto.

The first of four sales management development seminars was held in April in Vancouver to enhance management skills of senior sales personnel.

In this photo, from the left, we have: Gene Guff, Toronto; Grant Williams, manager Southwest U.S; H. B. O'Toole, marketing program mgr; Bob Godfrey, sales manager, Fiji; Fred Duncan, Maritime DSM; Bill Gordon, director of field sales; Jim McKerrow, DSM, Hamburg; Luis Andrade, DSM, Spain; Ken Wood, DSM, Winnipeg; Jim Mutch, city sales manager, Victoria; Ron McWilliams, manager market research; Bill Stean, asst. DSM, Vancouver; Ed Ogden, regional sales manager, Asia, Pacific; Ralph Woodman, manager Southeast Asia; Frank Holland, (behind), general sales manager; Eric Birdsall, manager, Australia; G. Inserra, DSM, Italy; Roy Pellant, administrator, management development; Reg Paull, manager sales and traffic training; Raul Hudson, sales manager, Chile.

Hugh MacCallum has sent us this information and the url -

A PBY Catalina's Journey of re-discovery at theperfectadventure.ca

In May 2018 a World War Two veteran Canadian flying boat, a PBY Catalina (in Canada termed a Canso), “Shady Lady” is going to take to the air and fly to 11 countries and over fifty towns, cities and communities in a once-in-a lifetime celebration and a unique journey of re-discovery. 

The purpose of the flight will be to provide a platform for the Government of Canada to promote its sovereignty and stewardship of the Arctic, make a World Tourism Campaign for the Government of British Columbia, commemorate the pilots of WWII on the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force, visit WWII Catalina bases, produce a film documentary of the flight and its mission, lay wreaths at the wreck sites of HMS Hood and the Battleship Bismarck and honour the history of lend lease and the Atlantic convoys.

This epic flight will never happen again and marks the end of an era. Some of your readers might be interested in this 'Lanc' video on the CTV site

Canada's Lancaster bomber returns home after historic U.K. tour.

Note: "Shady Lady" will be visiting CWHM at CYHM/Mt Hope, Ontario to fly with its Canso.

Hugh MacCallum

John Wendell Crerar sends this comment after reading the article about the Viscount in NetLetter # 1379 -

Hello, wonderful seeing 637 as I spent a few hours crawling around her during the wing spare mod late 50's early 60's. It was a wonderful time and I cherish the memories.

Enjoy reading the net letter, thank you. The years in YWG were great and then came transferees to Montreal, not so great and left six months after arriving. I was a 2nd generation employee and it hurt to leave, but all worked out in the end. I worked 8 years with AC and after transferring to Montreal we went to register our children for school. The authorities told us because we came from out of province our children would have to go to a French Catholic school. We were English speaking Protestants.

Not wanting to quit AC, it became necessary and took job with CP Air which turned out equally as good, but lost my seniority with AC. Now an AC retiree I have 22 years 8 months seniority but actually worked there 8 years with 30 years 8 months with both airlines. The Viscount was the first and I had a wonderful career. Have a Merry Christmas and a great New Year.

Best regards,

John Wendell Crerar

Nicolas Spiros sent us this correction to the article in NetLetter # 1381 regarding the opening of the CPA office in Athens -

Re: your latest edition, I'm sure "Mr. GASPARINATOS" is not around to see his name mutilated to ''GASPARINTOTAS''; the surname ending in ''-atos'' denotes a person's origin in the Ionian island of Cephalonia; and that is the reason the third ''a'' is important.

(Due to an editing error, the “as” was added to the surname. The original article shows two spellings of the name, the second mentioned is the correct one, but was not noticed when the information was used – eds)

I was a young upstart in the business then. Greeks may be proud of their last names but a linguistic problem for North Americans. I chose to drop mine when I moved here; it was a less painful solution!

Nicolas

Brant and Norfolk Aero Club.

In 1928, the federal government promised a grant and two airplanes to any responsible flying club that would operate a flying field and train pilots.

The Brant-Norfolk Aero Club was founded by a few forward thinking young men who set about finding more members and an air field. In 1929, eighty-five acres of land were purchased by the city on the north east corner of King George Road and Fairview Drive, which was then named the Airport Road. It was also necessary for eight local businessmen to put up a bond to guarantee the functions of the club. Two Avro Avian airplanes arrived in 1929.

The official opening took place on June 6, 1930, followed by a large civic celebration. In 1949, the airport moved to the Burford Road where the No. 5 Service Flying Training School was located during the Second World War. Started 1929 the renamed Brantford Flight Centre, operates at Municipal Airport, Brantford, Ontario (YFD).

(Source: brantfordexpositor.ca)

Sound breaking.

Fifty years ago, December 17, 1967, the future of air transport was unveiled to the world as the supersonic Concorde emerged from its hangar for the very first time.

A dart-like airliner that promised to revolutionize the air-transport industry broke cover in Toulouse and the state-of-the-art machine that emerged would henceforth be referred to universally with the French spelling of its name - "Concorde".

Source: Fight International December 12, 2017)

Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.

Ways to avoid paying too much to travel. (Source: MSN.COM)

Exchanging Your Currency at the Airport
It only makes sense to keep some cash on hand when travelling – you never know when you’ll need some local currency for cabs, tipping, places that may not accept plastic, etc.

Trouble is, the airport may not always offer the best exchange rates as you rush to change over that cash before boarding your flight. Get the best rate by doing it ahead of time and save a little extra spending money.

Flying Direct Every Time
We don’t blame you for wanting to skip out on those lengthy connecting flights, but doing it direct, every time, can really add up. Opt for a layover every now and again and reward yourself by spending some of those savings while hanging around between flights at the duty-free!

Smart bags use lithium ion batteries to power electronics and embedded tracking and self-weigh devices. There is increasing concern, however, about lithium ion batteries causing runaway fires in cargo holds unless devices are properly stored and separated from items that could worsen a fire, such as cans of inflammable liquids.

Carriers are banning so-called smart bags from being checked into luggage holds unless the bag’s integrated lithium battery can be removed and carried separately.

They follow similar actions by other carriers including Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Delta Air Lines, Etihad Airways, Hawaiian Airlines, Qantas Airways, Qatar Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and Virgin Australia.

(Source: atwonline.com January  5, 2018)

Engine fault.

"Nearly 75 years ago, GE introduced the country's first jet engine and brought America's aviation industry into the jet age," proclaims the commercial engine page on GE Aviation's web site.

The problem is, the four engine aircraft in the main image - parked at a pier tip of Frankfurt’s Terminal 1 - are two Airbus A340-600s, a type powered exclusively by arch-rival Rolls-Royce's Trent 500 power plants. 

(Source. Flight International November 29, 2017)