At the computer again! 
My first job in the industry was as a groomer on a WorldWays Convair 640 in St. John's Newfoundland ( CYYT ) while I was in flight school.   I spent 7 years with CASARA, Civil Air Search & Rescue Association, as a spotter/navigator & Flight Ops co-ordinator.  In 1988 I obtained my diploma in Aircraft Mechanics.  Prior to my present position with Air Labrador, I was the Area Operations Manager for Interprovincial Airlines.  I was responsible for flight dispatch, reservations, customer service, passenger check in, cargo,  passenger & charter sales, route analysis, accounting, and anything that didn't go according to plan ended up in my lap.  Doing the 24/7 thing was to say the least tiring after a year & a half.  When the company decided to lease the Twin Otter's out I was invited to join the team at Air Labrador & went there too.  Doing it all certainly taught me alot about different parts of the business.  I have enormous respect for our passenger agents who deal with passenger complaints, because of flights delayed by weather or by mechanicals, while we try & figure out the recovery plan.  Before transferring to the Goose I was the lead dispatcher for Provincial Airlines in Halifax, Nova Scotia ( CYHZ ), a flight controller for Atlantic Island Airways in Summerside, P.E.I. ( CYSU ), & chief of flight dispatch for Provincial Airlines in St. John's, Newfoundland ( CYYT ).   Most recently I  passed my Transport Canada Examinations & Competency Check Out for my flight dispatcher Certificate. Hoping to add the FAA certificate soon!

This site started off life in February of 1998, with no more than a handful of airline addresses, after receiving the necessary tutelage from my computer wizard 14 year old son, it slowly started to take shape until it made it to what you are looking at now.  My airline listing site is  used by the people who run the Canadian Airline Employees Aviation Forum for their contact list.  With 500+ airlines listed it is a wealth of information, and a labor of love.
 
 

1-DHC 8-102                                          C-GAAN                                                 051
1- B1900D                                              C-GLHO                                                 UE-266
1-Shorts SD-330                                    C-GLAP                                                  SH 3033
3-DHC 6 series 300 Twin Otters          C-GNQY  C-FGON  C-GLAI                450   369   296
1-DHC 6 series 100 Twin Otter            C-GDQY                                                  077
1-C208B Caravan                                  C-FPEX                                                   208BO118
1-DHC 3 Turbo Otter                            C-FQOS                                                   398

Though this aircraft seats 37, we use it with 29 seats, so as to carry cargo between YYT & Labrador. We usually average 3000-3300 lb. of cargo  per trip out of YYT + passenger baggage, depending of fuel & alternate requirements.  Like we NEVER have weather/alternate problems in this neck of the woods!  Before we obtained this aircraft she used to fly for Air Atlantic; here is a picture of her sitting at the gate in Halifax ( CYHZ ) in Air Atlantic colours.  Click here to visit the Air Atlantic pilots site. Air Atlantic ceased operations at midnight 24 Oct 98 after 12 years of service in Atlantic Canada.  Their routes have now been taken over by Inter-Canadi>n.  To all my friends at Air Atlantic thanks for the memories & all the best in the future!

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With a max take-off weight of 16,950lbs, and an operating weight of just under 11,000 lbs  she can take a full passenger load + baggage in speed & style.
Currently this aircraft flies to St. John's (YYT) Gander (YQX) Deer Lake (YDF) St. Anthony (YAY) Goose Bay (YYR) Newfoundland and Lourdes de Blanc Sablon (YBX) on the Quebec North Shore.

DHC6 / 300 series Twin Otter

 The workhorse of the North. The venerable DeHavilland Twin Otter, backbone of our fleet.  This is the type aircraft we use to provide passenger & cargo service to the people of coastal Labrador. Configured with 19 seats these aircraft provide daily service to the North & South coast of the 'BIG LAND'.

Our crew are well experienced in operating in this remote enviroment, our senior Captains have in excess of 20,000 hours, most of it on the coast.

Of the 6 North coast destinations we serve, Nain/Davis Inlet/Hopedale/Postville/Makkovik/Rigolet, only 2 have wx reports, Nain & Makkovik and only 1 has a forecast , Nain.  On the South coast more of the same. Cartwright/Black Tickle /Charlottetown/Port Hope Simpson/Fox Harbour/ Mary's Harbour; Cartwright & Mary's Harbour are the only 2 stops with a Metar & Tafor.  We depend on our coastal agents to a large extent especially when the weather is marginal.  Crews/Agents & Dispatchers ....we use everything at our disposal to get the job done & done Safely.

Another important part of our operation is Medivac service to the coast.  We are contracted by the Health Labrador Corporation to provide a crew & aircraft on a 24 hour basis.  This is predicated on a 1 hour call out.  Our crews & their aircraft are normally ready to taxi  30-35 minutes after being tasked.  This reflects well on our crews' ( both flight & maintenance ) professionalism and just how serious they take their life saving mission.

The coastal airstrips are gravel ( or ice covered .... thankfully these a/c have reverse! ) and around 2,000' long x 75' wide.  These airstrips are equipped with only NDB approaches.

One of the more interesting places our crews fly into each day is located in Nain ( CYDP ).

Imagine if you will ...... beacon approach to a 2000' x 75' strip where the final approach takes you over a 1200' 'hill' less than 1 mile from the strip & where there is another 'hill' right next to the side of the runway 900' high, and on the other side is the harbour.  We don't go in there in the wind is 30 kts or greater (this includes our 20,000 hr guys ) it gets way too squirelly.  This stop is done twice a day 6 days a week on scheduled service, not counting cargo & charter flights.

             What part of the Earth is covered in darkness now?
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Thanks to Syl in New Zealand for this site!

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Where We Fly

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The Dispatcher's Creed

 Upon my honor I pledge that I shall conscientiously exercise
the rights and duties conferred upon me as a certified
dispatcher with primary concern for the safety of the lives and
preservation of the property affected by my decisions. In the
performance of my duties I shall never approve the operation
of a flight which in my considered opinion is hazardous.

I PLEDGE, also, to follow with unremitting attention the
progress of each flight under my control. I shall be alert to
warn the captain of unforeseen meteorological developments,
unexpected losses of navigational aids or sudden changes in
traffic and field conditions which might adversely affect the
successful completion of his trip. In addition, I shall be
prepared to offer, unsolicited, an alternative plan of action to
him when the original plan cannot be followed. In an
emergency, I shall be prepared to make full and immediate use
of the facilities available to me to aid the stricken flight.

I PLEDGE, finally, to keep pace with the latest advances in
the science of aeronautics and supplementary fields of study
relevant to my responsibility so that my competency as a
dispatcher which depends upon knowledge of such subjects
will be maintained.

                                                                                                                                                                                  The competition