A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 29, 1999

Terrace on flight path
for expanding Westjet

TERRACE AND area
docs fit into Westjet’s
plan for service, but not
just yel, says its market-
ing and sales vice presi-
dent. a
“HY you think that we

are in 12 airports now and

will add 12 more on the
next several years and
there aren't a lot of air-

ports of the. size. Westjet....

cauld come inlo' in western
Canada, Terrace is on our

radar screen,” said: Bill -

Lamberton last week,
“Westjet will come into
a community when it is
best for Westjet because
that’s when it will be best
for the community. because
we'll be able-to offer a
sustained service,” ‘he
said.
Lamberton’s ‘comments
follow a campaign on the

part of the. Terrace: and.
District Chambei: of Com-..

merce. . :

On behalf of some of its

members, ‘the. chamber
asked that letters be sent
to Westjet encouraging it
to provide service to Ter-
race. ne

“We've received, I be-

lieve, over 40 faxes from
businesses in Terrace who
want us to provide some
kind of service,” said
Lamberton.

He said that the compa-
ny, in terms of flying into
the. northwest, could only
do it-at one of the three

“We "Ve... ra«
ceived, | believe,
over 40 faxes
from businesses
in Terrace who
want us to provide
some _ kind of
service.”

airport locations at Smith-
ers, Terrace or Prince Ru-
pert.

“We could never do it
at all three to sustain a
service,” said Lamberton.
_. Determining ‘factors
would be’ market size and
cost of using the airport.

“We would be looking
for cost beneficial fees be-
cause cost is a driving fac-
tor in providing our low

fares,” said Lamberton.

The closest airport pro-
viding Westjet service is
Prince George and people
from here are already driv-
ing there because of differ-
ences in fares from what is
offered here,

There’s also been added
interest in..Westjet ‘be-
cause’ of the. planned
merger between Air Cana-

~ da and Canadian Airlines: ~ “L

And while people. from

here want Westjet to look —

to the northwest, last week
it announced plans for an
eastward ‘expansion.

The compuny flies to 12
locations west of Thunder
Bay now, but will add
cities east of that city next
year. ;

Westjet won’t be an-
touncing. locations “until

- next month ‘but*if says it

will add five B-737 aircraft
in 2000 to the 14 it already
has in the air.
~The B.C. airports now
served by Wesljet are
Prince George, Kelowna,
Abbotsford, Vancouver and
Victoria.
Wesijet began opera-
tions in 1996. In 1999
alone, il added four planes.

Hospital heads confident
about Y2K preparedness

EXTENSIVE tests have
been conducted and more
than $300,000 spent up-
grading equipment to en-
sure nothing goes wrong at
Mills Memorial Hospital
or Terraceview lodge be-
cause of ¥2K,

Paul Manhas,. the hos- .

pital’s director of finance,
says hospital officials and
staff are confident abou
the changeover, ;

“We do nat feel the
Year 2000 is going to ad-
versely affect any patient
in aur organization,” he
said,” oF see Ma lites UPAR ee

Literallly hundreds of
pieces of equipment have
been tested or checked via
its manufacturer: Some 25
major systems or pieces of
equipment needed to be
upgraded and in some
cases replaced altogether
because they couldn’t be
upgraded.

Medical supplics and
other stock has been dou-
bled to a four-week carry-
ing stock in case of any
Shortages in early 2000.

The most sensitive is-
sue for hospitals is the
public fear that critical
life-sustaining medical
equipment could fail at
midnight Dec, 31st.

Manhas said equipment
such as ventilators have
been rigourously tested.

“The manufacturer says
they’re Year 2000 compli-
ant,” he says. “We've
rolled (he date over manu-
ally and tested it and it
works. We're confident it’s
going to work.”

He noted hospital staff
are trained to deal with
equipment ‘failures whe-
never they occur.

“If something bizarre
does happen and does po

“Tf power went out even
in July we would get fuel
ahead of the rest of the
community,” he said.

“We're also on a non-in-
terruptible gas supply for
heat.”

The bottom line? Don’t
worry about Y2K if. you

i fee

wrong our staff are (rained ©

and prepared to deal with
that emergency whether
that piece of equipment
fails on Jan. Ist-or at any
other time of the year,” he
said.

As for heat and light,
the hospital has: always
had a generator and has a
large on-site fuel tank to
power it,

Local fuel suppliers
give the hospital top prior-
ity in the event of a long-
term power problem, Man-
has added.

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