May02_2008

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Photos - Frames left and right: Outside the Domestic Flight Entrance to Calgary International Airport - early afternoon and the area looks all but deserted.

Center frame: Inside the Calgary International Airport on the way to Gate D for the West Jet departure for Vancouver. This is where everyone has disappeared to - lineups for departing flights.

Photos - L-R - Calgary International Airport Gate C - USA Flights departure registry.

After checking our baggage, we head to Gate 49 D for West Jet Flight 243 along a long moving sidewalk.

Starbucks makes it's presence known even at the airport inside this hanger looking lounge to wait for the departure call.

Photos - L-R - A West Jet Boeing 737 model 800 loading baggage - Air traffic Control Tower in background to the right.

This is my ride: West Jet Boeing 737 model 700 arrives at Gate 49 D for unloading and loading before flight 243 departs to Vancouver.

An aircraft of a different sort. This is a stylized, tin version of Kenn Borek's Twin Otter float plane suspended from a carrousel style machine that is an interactive display showing the various historic domestic airplanes of Alberta. Two deHavilland Twin Otters, flown by Kenn Borek Air of Calgary, departed on April 14, 2001, to rescue Dr Ronald S. Shemenski, the sole physician among 50 researchers working at the South Pole, who had been diagnosed with a potentially life threatening condition. One aircraft remained at Rothera Station, Antarctica, for backup while the other flew the 1,300 remaining miles to the south Pole. Kenn Borek Air made aviation history when the Twin Otter became the first aircraft to land at the South Pole in the middle of the Antarctic winter.

Click here for more photos of Calgary International Airport for this day.