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By BARBARA McCREADIE My next flight scared the

discount a few years when _
we chugged across Canada a
couple of times in pursuit of
my dad. He seemed to be
indispensable at that time to
the Canadian Air- Force!
Mom considered him §in-
dispensable to US, so we
“packed and followed”?

Someone finally put the
skids to the Third Reich and
other zelated enterprises and

.my Nova Scotian parents

decided that Alberta was a

- good place to live.

The first time we took a
holiday was six years later —
when we piled in our newly-
acquired car and headed

' over gravel roads to Havre,

Montana. I was so excited
over the prospect that I
promptly unloaded my
breakfast all over the back
seat. Some start for a travel
columnist!

I used to sit near the train
tracks (CPR Mainline), and
imagine myself in a sleeper
car heading for the great
unknown. Some kids dream
of fairy tales or horses. My
dreams were all travel.

At-last, my first flight. It
came, courtesy of a union
dispute on the CPR! New
Year’s, 1957, found a lot of
UBC students stranded in
Alberta with no tran-
sportation back to Van-
couver. Some, probably
afraid of taking TRANS-
CANADA AIRLINES (!),
opted for driving, but my
Dad figured that the plane
was a whole lot better. |
couldn't have cared less as
long as I got back in time for
classes.

The DC-3 that took us out
of Medicine Hat for Calgary
landed on time, and
struggled my- way up the
incline. Those beasts sit at
about 30 degrees up, from
nose to tail! Reassured by
the presence of the
stewardess (who HAD to be
a registered nurse!) I figured
I'd be in good hands if my
stomach decided to part
company with my dignity.

With great luck, and a lot
of firm swallows, I heJd onto
my breakfast.

My."" cars...were- another
t' ing. The North Star that
te ok us from Calgary to
‘% ancouver did a good job on
tem, too. Since nobody told
r 2 any different, I assumed
t at all planes bounced like
y'yo’s and roared like the
start of a war. They handed
us boxes of packed lunch
and you proved that you
were in control by cating the
whole thing.

t

Aside from being deaf for_

three days afterwards, my
{rst flight was something I'l!
rever forget. Oddly, 1] wasn’t
a that scared — perhaps

because all 17-ycar-olds
consider themselves im-
niortal.

hell out of Mom and Dad! I

a
__Ididn't have a ve a chanee-to—assumed—a bravado_that-i—not

She looked at it with

.

get a lot of mail. “What is

concern. “Gee, Mom, you're

on
with my girlfriend’s 20-year-
old brother on a flight to
Edmonton in’ a Luscombe
Silvair, When Mom saw
them carrying the plane out
of the hanger, she couldn’t
decide whether to forbid the
trip or go to church! My.
moderate+sized suitcase

“wouldn’t fit in the hole

behind the’ seat so Dad
shipped it behind me by
Greyhound. It.arrived about
the same time we did!

Naturally, that was the day
of the tornado in Alberta.
High winds wiped out all the
power lines for’ hundreds of -
miles but, luckily, didn’t
cause our plane any

problems. Ever had to field a—-

pass at a few thousand feet?
The only problem I had was
discouraging the advances of
my friend’s brother who
figured, rightly, that the
escape route wasn’t feasible.
I figured that he wasn’t
feasible either!

By the time we reached
Edmonton the situation was
solved — I promised him a
heart-to-heart talk with my
Dad and he promised to give
up sex forever.

I took the train home.

Planes

changed. The

_ Viscounts and North Stars

gave way to jets. The two-
hour flight between Calgary
and Vancouver became an
hour and ten minutes. In-
stead of “coffee tea or me”,
it became “Weuld-you care
for a drink from the bar?”

My first flight consisted of

fifteen men and me.
Women, except for those
brave registered nurses,

waved goodbye at the air-
port and went home to
check-up on their husbands’
life insurance. Today, you
can bet that at least half of
the seats are feminine oc-
cupied with a lot of
husbands waving goodbye at
the airport.

Today, my _ kids hop
aboard a flight to London,
Hawaii or Rio with “cool”.
They cope with international
borders with such con-
fidence! (‘Mom, I'll grab the
‘duty-free’ if you handle the

- spassports”). When I-took my

eight-year-old, on 4a, flight”
from Vancouver to Rid, I
remembered my own ex-
pericnces on the way to

‘Montana and showed her the
“Barf Bag”.

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Winners

ends of Canada, asking. the

. Same question — withih>a.

by Barbara
McCreadie

Even though the summer
doldrums are upon-us, I still

. flight

week!" =*

Both of the letters on this
question»have been referred

_ to the PR department. of Air
Canada. ~' What. a problem!.

How. to best use a FREE
ticket to. anywhere in: Air
Canada’s world! —s-

I talked with Sandie
Anakotta,- Public > Affairs
Assistant for Air Canada
who told me that the furthest
points in “Air Canada’s
World” .are Zurich | or

Copenhagen in Europe, or ~

Port, of Spain”
Caribbean. © The

in the
Moscow
“is no more” due to
lack-ofinterest, although for
regular travellers (not ticket
winners) they will make
connections for you should
Russia be your destination..

The Rusian airline
“Aeroflot” flies out of
London and deals with
anyone AC fliesin. -

—Td dopt for:

stopovers” are only good
within Canada. That. makes
sense--because most of. Air

Canada’s flights. to foreign ©
- destinations are non-stop.

They do, however, ‘make

‘allowances for. landing in

one spot (e.g. Copenhagen)
and returning from another,
(e.g. London).. You’re on
your own between the two!

better. get had won. unlimited flights on
really amazing is that I got. Something straig! straight right-no u ey——could ———
two letters, from—opposite se. “‘“uniimited

have done the Tokyo-Hong_
ong route or Athens’ or

Buenos: ‘Aires: (My: dream --

city!). Air Canada is very

‘much a “National Airline.”

They try to'serve the. average _
. traveller within our.country’s”
borders. with-a-few-overseas-— --

destinations. - I'm Proud: of

_Air Canada.

Despite the. fact “that - |

they're owned by. our
. squirrely government,

Should I ever be so lucky + they're doing a good job.

1. From Vancouver, a flight:

to London and a return from
Copenhagen or Zurich. fd

‘do the switch by Eurail pass

and stay in bed-and-

breakfast joints,

2. From Toronto, a trip to’
Vancouver and. from there,
Port of Spain. Timed for the |
lousiest part of the winter!

Even Sandie had to admit
— it would be a helluva lot
better if the prize-winners

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