My 2 cents. Do with them as you wish. I hope this is not correct. I'd get your 2 cents back on this one, put it in a cup and a mark it "Jacket Recupe Fund". Or maybe you can convince the company to take the profits from your blessed jackets and donate something to the Northern Communities? We don't...

Today's Globe and Mail has a story/interview with Robert Milton. In it, Milton comments on the possibility of spinning Air Canada off as its own publicly-traded entity, separate from ACE Holdings -- the company that was created during AC's bankruptcy rescue. This demonstrates the magic of the number...

If this is true I guess we can count all the chicken little blatherings about peak oil, and oil is finite and quickly running out as specious bullshit. Why then, are we getting hosed so badly at the pumps? While the total amount of oil in/on the planet may be finite, etc, the ability to extract it ...

On a different note, for anyone who wonders why the US airlines are still trying to pull themselves back together, consider this: Passenger capacity of the 4 hijacked airliners on 9/11: 762 Passengers on board the 4 hijackers airliners on 9/11: 229 The actual load factor, taking into account the dis...

I haven't seen it, but might go. Interested to see if the end accurately portrays the fact that the passengers did not make it into the cockpit, as suggested by the CVR transcripts. Always thought that was a feel-good story for the families (and the country) regardless. "Let's roll", my ass. Of cour...

With all of the natural gas and oil we have in this country, we should all be living like fucking rich Saudi Sheiks! Some Albertans are. Canada is a net exporter of oil (we produce more than we consume). If Canada were to lower prices to reflect the supply/demand situation for Canada in isolation, ...

stevewilson wrote:"with the ATIS......"

That doesn't necessarily help the controller, at least in cases where a runway change may have recently taken place. Without stating the letter, the controller won't know if you have the current landing info, and it will cause unnecessary transmissions for confirmation.

[quote="wingtipNah, once satcom is firmly in place, we will all be talking to the lowest bidder. I am thinking Bombay control :roll:[/quote] "FABC, I like to clear you to the Timmins airport via your current intended route, climb like a bird to the flight levels two-free-seero" (Don't forget to add ...

Well, one example would have to do with splitting sectors, doubling up sectors, and breaks for the controllers. A private industry will be much quicker to deem air traffic 'not busy enough to warrand extra staffin', I don't disagree with that statement. But you seemed to refer to current actions be...

Hey wait a minute who's paying for this? Not the evil whiteman that is taking all their land....perhaps we should just say F'em like the Six Nations are doing to the rest of us. You pay'em for fly on big metal bird or you'em suit'em up scuba tanks! What part of your personal life is in such dire fa...

[Wouldn't change a hell of a lot because AC pretty well calls the shots now being the biggest contributer to NC's coffers through the enroute, terminal fee structure, Whether right or wrong, whatever AC wants, it gets with NC :wink: Small point, which is probably moot in the grand scheme of things,...

polythene_pam wrote:navcanada is already making many, many poor decisions that jeopardize YOUR safety, and all in the name of making a buck or two.

Such as?

Air Inuit, Air Creebec, and Wasaya have been doing the bulk of the flying. Lots into Geraldton.

AEROMONKEY wrote:$1.40 per litre plus gst in CYQT

And don't forget that the GST is charged on top of (cascaded) the excise taxes already added by the federal and provincial governments. Tax on tax. Gotta love it.

Obviously the government could not allow the ANS system to shut down Finally, he admits it - the whole "private corporation" thing is a sham, a feeble excuse to justify multiple taxation. I don't think I've ever argued that the ANS is not an essential service, so by extension the government cannot ...

[quote="Hedleyoh, I think I could make a guess ... let's see, if NavCan has a problem, the government will bail it out, right? Nice safety net to work with. I'm sure most real private sector companies wish they had that backing.[/quote] Obviously the government could not allow the ANS system to shut...

No offense meant but I was under the impression that there was a work to rule program in place with Nav Can employees due to contract disputes already. Pay cuts surely couldn't help this any. I think most of the FSS's and ACC's do a swell job except when it comes to so called "high intensity operat...

I don't know much about these guy's pay scales. I do know we're all getting raped by these fees Navcanada charges. So where is the money going? Big fat paycheques? Infrastructure? offshore accounts? I'd like to know. All of Nav Canada's annual reports (back to 1997), with audited financial statemen...

I am amazed that any airline can make money when I see some of the fares out there. So when you buy a ticket for West Palm Beach and see that only $175 of that ticket actually goes to the airline, call Greyhound and ask them how much a bus fare to West Palm is, then ask what kind of wine they will ...

sanjet wrote:$150 per aircraft in a year in savings??!? I bet they spent $250,000 researching that....

$150 per kg, per aircraft, per year. Adds up. Why waste that money if you don't have to?