Air Canada
The History
Begun as a social experiment in 1937, Air Canada has evolved into one of the world's greatest airlines. Air Canada: The History explores a modern miracle that has made commercial air travel in our country an everyday occurrence. The airline was born in 1937 as Trans Canada Airlines, a ward of the Canadian National Railway. Renamed Air Canada in 1964 to reflect its status as a jet-age airline, it survived devastating air crashes, financial deficits, self-serving politicians, strikes, privatization, and the Airbus scandal. It was reviled in the nineties by the likes of Peter Newman, who joked, If God had meant Man to fly, he wouldn't have inven…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4597-1954-5
- EAN: 9781459719545
- Produktnummer: 20447992
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'456 KB
Über den Autor
Peter Pigott is Canada's foremost aviation author. Among his accomplishments are the histories of Air Canada, Trans Canada Airlines, and Canadian Airlines. He is the author of From Far and Wide, Sailing Seven Seas, Canada in Sudan and many more books. He lives in Ottawa.
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