54 - Wednesday, December 19. 1890 - North Shore News BUSINESS BRIEFS COLLEGE WINNER CAROL KERR, a North Shore marketing student at Capilano Coltege, has become the recipient of the Women Meaa Business bursary in the amount of $300. The annual bursary is available to any woman studying business at Capilano College who meets the criteria. set) by the networking group Women Mean Business and administered by Capilano College. Women Mean Business is a woman's networking organization established in 1989 for the ad- vancement of women in business on the North Shore. The monthly breakfast meetings, held the first Friday of every month at the Lonsdale Quay Hotel, provide a forum for the exchange of business and personal ideas, goals and philosophies as well as an opportunity to further deversp business contacts on the Nerth Shore. Breakfast speakers address ct variety of topics from financial statements and imagery for stress to women in politics. For more information call Moncca Litloa at 985-9300. HELIJET SERVICE HELNET AIRWAYS Inc., will suspend its Vancouver {nterna- tional Airport to Victoria service in January but will increase its harbor to harbor service between Vancouver and Victoria Helijet president Danny Sitnam said the airport to Victoria service was not profitable and the new move, which involves employee layoffs, will improve the com- pany’s profitability and sccure its futute at a time when a general economic downturn and increasing fuel costs are putting pressures on many in the air travel industry. The aircraft providing the eight daily return flights between the Vancouver airport and Victoria will be employed to increase peak-time capacity on the har- bor-to-harbor service, where daily flight frequency is to increase by as many as four or five flights each way from the present 20. The Helijet terminal at tie Vancouver airport will be retained for use on occasions when weatier conditions interrupt flights at Vancouver harbor. Helijet, which has a commercial agreement with Canadian Airlines International and Time Air, will also provide its Vancouver airport customers with assistance in booking Victoria connections via Time Air’s service to the Victoria airport. Sitnam said Helijet’s employee force of 98 will be reduced by layoffs to 83. The move is ex- pected to improve job security for the remaining employees and will position Helijet for future growth, including the possibiliiy of a resumption of the suspended Van- couver airport to Victoria service when it becomes practical to fully develop that service. Helijet, a public company whose shares trade on the Wan- couver Steck Exchange, provides scheduled inter-city helicopter ser- vice with four Sikorsky S-76 air- craft. it started the highly-utilized harbor-to-harbor shuttie four years #B0 and added the Van- Surj Rattan CAPILANO COLLEGE market- ing student Carol Kerr is the recipient of the Women Mean Business award. couver airport to Victoria service in November 1987. Sitnam said the Vancouver air- port to Victoria service has poten- dial but requires further devclop- ment investment. “*We have come to the concliu- sion that it is prudent at this time wo suspend service on this un- profitable route and to enhance the cash flow and profitability of our successful harbor-to-harbor service,’’ said Sitnam. ‘This deci- ion will strengthen the company’s financial position, enabling us to meet our obligations to share- holders and to build a stronger foundation from which to grow as conditions change in the future.”’ RATE CHANGE THE VANCOUVER Port Corp., (VPC) has announced a_ rate struciure change that is being wel- comed as ‘progressive. " The new structure will simplify the manner in which charges are levied on containerized cargo handled at) major VPC-owned terminals including Lynnterm, Vanterm and Centerm in the Port of Vancouver. 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