Lucky Winner

Good luck had struck Chinapac yesterday.

Otis Ashby, our Sales and Operations Director for Chinapac International in Vancouver, was the happy winner of a business class return ticket to Taipei from China Airlines recently. China Air was celebrating its 10th year of services to Vancouver and held a celebratory lunch at the Shiang Restaurant in Richmond, BC. Flanking Ashby are Simon Lee (l), departing general manager of China Airlines in Canada and Eddie Yeh (r), the newly assigned GM.

Canadians really like their hockey

I read this article the other day in the Vancouver Sun and I found it funny because Canadians like to travel but we are also very polite when we travel. However, when hockey comes into play, things kind of go sideways.

Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

The airline was forced to delay a flight from Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games because passengers watching the end of gold medal final on airport televisions ignored repeated calls to board.

"We incurred a flight delay for a reason Air Canada had not yet encountered in over 72 years of existence," chief executive Calin Rovinescu told a business gathering.

The Canadian fans were rewarded for their delay, as the nail-biting end to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics saw Canada beat arch-rival United States

3-2 in overtime.