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Gateway To The 2010 Games resh from the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan and Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) chief executive officer, John Furlong, arrived at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on February 27, bringing with them the official Olympic flag. Despite exhaustion from their long journey home, the two enthusiastically greeted the eagerly awaiting crowd of about 100 people at the Haida Gwaii.
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The WestJet 737-800, configured for 166 passengers, is the largest airplane in airline’s fleet and is used on the airline’s longer-range routes. WestJet has exercised options with Boeing for an additional three 737-600s for delivery this year.
WestJet Celebrates 10th Anniversary Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan (left) and VANOC CEO John Furlong at YVR with the Olympic flag. The flag is currently being flown at City Hall in recognition that Vancouver is the Olympic city for the 2010 Winter Games.
n February 28, WestJet celebrated its 10th anniversary of operations by giving out $25 travel credits to all 20,926 passengers travelling that day on the airline. WestJet began offering flights throughout western Canada on
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February 29, 1996 with 220 employees and three aircraft flying to Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. As the airline expanded into the east and launched new cities in the SEE WESTJET, CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
Further $6.8-Million Funding For BCIT’s New Aerospace Technology Campus he Government of British Columbia has recognized BCIT’s leading edge, $65-million Aerospace Technology Campus (ATC) as a crucial component to the province’s aerospace strategy, committing $16.4-million to the project in 2003. Earlier this month, BCIT announced an additional $6.8-million in funding from
Harmony Introduces Calgary-Asia Pacific Link T armony Airways is adding a new route between Vancouver and Calgary, starting May 14. The Vancouver-based airline will operate three flights six days a week, with two on Saturdays, on a schedule timed to link Calgarians connecting through Vancouver with the Asia Pacific. Harmony partners with Japan Airlines and China Eastern to provide service from Vancouver to Asia. “Harmony recognizes the tremendous demand from cities
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such as Tokyo and Shanghai for destinations like Calgary and the Rockies,” said Gary Collins, president and CEO, Harmony Airways. “Alternately, Calgarians want easy connections to Asia. We’re making the link between the Asia Pacific and North America, using Vancouver as the gateway.” The launch of the CalgaryVancouver link is the next step in Harmony’s North America to Asia strategy and complements an
existing Toronto-Vancouver link. “Calgary has become an important part of Harmony’s network,” said Collins. “We introduced service to Honolulu and Maui last year, have since expanded the Maui service to operate year-round, and are now offering daily service to the West Coast. Calgarians have taken to Harmony’s unique combination of service, schedule and price on
other partners including the Government of Canada, through Western Economic the Government of Canada, through Western Economic Diversification Canada, Phoenix-based Honeywell Aerospace, Raytheon Canada, WestJet, BMO Financial Group, CIBC, the RBC SEE BCIT CAMPUS, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
BCIT’s new Aerospace Technology Campus, located on Sea Island, will be a state-of-the-art aviation facility.
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