There is also a rules committee meeting on Monday 1300-1630.  If you are interested in the rules committee and want to sit in on the meeting please send us an e-mail and we can arrange it.

All passengers should plan to arrive at the airport at least three (3) hours in advance of their flight departure to allow extra time for check-in and the boarding process.

CHANGE:  Carry-On Baggage Policy To The U.S. from Canada: 

Most of the organizing committee will be in town Feb 27th.  If you have any problems or questions please get a hold of Gary or Rick, preferably by text.  Phone numbers will be made available at the hotel front desk.  We will also be checking our email all week.

There will be two Rules Committee vacancies up for nomination and vote in Calgary; one Canadian member and the Member-at-large.

* * * We are proud of our Volunteers * * *

On Friday, Jan 15, I received a text from Dave Johnson, Vancouver Tower.  You may know Dave from the Rules Committee and as the co-chair of the Vancouver 2008 tournament.  Dave told me he and five other volunteers from the Canadian Medical Assistance Teams were on their way to Haiti as an advanced team for their organization and needed help to charter a plane out of Miami.  (Dave's wife Donna, an orthopedic surgeon and ice hockey player, also flew to Haiti with the main CMAT group.)  I called some of our hockey pals in Florida; Tony Llabres, Dan Neubecker, Mike Vitti, and a non-hockey buddy of mine, Keith Bernard, to get the ball rolling.  Long story short, these guys got on it and Dave ended up with a Lear 55 they found...the only thing they couldn't do was get a release time that day (and it wasn't from lack of trying).  The MIA guys also helped in another big way as you'll see in the stories below.  I'm not surprised and I'm very proud of our group, air traffic