{"id":20479,"date":"2022-01-02T15:57:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20479"},"modified":"2022-01-02T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:57:21","slug":"air-canada-congratulates-captain-judy-cameron-on-being-named-to-the-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/air-canada-congratulates-captain-judy-cameron-on-being-named-to-the-order-of-canada\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada Congratulates Captain Judy Cameron on Being Named to the Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The office of Her Excellency the Right Honorable Mary Simon,\nGovernor General of Canada, recently named Captain Judy Cameron as one of the\nnewest appointees to the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Judy-Cameron-732x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20480\" width=\"201\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Judy-Cameron-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Judy-Cameron-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Judy-Cameron.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><figcaption><em>Captain Judy Cameron<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of everyone at Air Canada, we salute and\napplaud Judy on receiving Canada&#8217;s highest honor that recognizes outstanding\nachievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation, and\nenriching the lives of others while making a difference to this country. Judy\nhas been a trailblazer throughout her entire career, and she continues to be a\ntremendous ambassador, tireless mentor and inspiration to the next generation\nof female pilots. Warmest congratulations, Judy!&#8221; said Arielle\nMeloul-Wechsler, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer and\nPublic Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judy Cameron became the first female pilot hired by Air\nCanada, Canada&#8217;s largest airline, in April 1978 at the age of 23. She was the\nfirst woman to graduate from Selkirk College&#8217;s Aviation Technology Program in\n1975. Throughout her flying career of 40 years and over 23,000 hours, she has\nflown the DC-3, Twin Otter, Hawker Siddeley 748, DC-9, Lockheed 1011, Airbus\n320, Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 to the far corners of the world. She became a\ncaptain in 1997 and in 2010, she became the first female captain in Canada of a\nBoeing 777, the largest aircraft in Air Canada&#8217;s fleet. She retired in 2015,\nreceived the Elsie MacGill Northern Lights award in the Flight Operations\ncategory that year, and in 2016 she was chosen by the 99s (International\nOrganization of Women Pilots) to be on its Canadian postage stamp.&nbsp; Today, Captain Cameron continues her\nvolunteer work mentoring and supporting the next generation of female pilots\nwith the Northern Lights Aero Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Air Canada proudly launched the Captain Judy\nCameron Scholarship in her honor with the goal of helping the next generation\nof women follow in her trailblazing footsteps. To date, eight scholarships have\nbeen distributed to help young women pursue non-traditional professional\naviation careers as commercial pilots or aircraft maintenance engineers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Her Excellency the Right Honorable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, recently named Captain Judy Cameron as one of the newest appointees to the Order of Canada. &#8220;On behalf of everyone at Air Canada, we salute and applaud Judy on receiving Canada&#8217;s highest honor that recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20481,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions\/20481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}