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Trademarks
Air Canada believes that its trademarks are important to its competitive position. Air Canada is Air Canada's trade
name and trademark. Other trademarks include Air Canada JetzⓇ, Air Canada JazzⓇ, Jazz TM, Air Canada Vacations®,
Vacances Air CanadaⓇ, Executive First®, Executive Class®, Expedair®, AC Expedair™, AC Priority™, AC Air
Freight™, AC Lynx™, Hospitality Service®, Service Hospitalité®, Rapidair®, Maple Leaf™M, Feuille d'Érable™, AC
WEBSAVER™, Super Elite™ and Super Élite™. Air Canada has granted Aeroplan LP a license to use Air CanadaⓇ
and Air Canada Roundel® trademarks around the world solely in association with the Aeroplan program. See
"Relationships and Related Party Transactions Between Air Canada and Jazz, Aeroplan and ACTS Relationship
Between Air Canada and Aeroplan Aeroplan and Air Canada Trademark License Agreements". Air Canada has
granted Jazz a license to use Air Canada JazzⓇ, Jazz™, Air CanadaⓇ, Air Canada Design®, Air Canada and Design®
and other trademarks in Canada and the United States in association with the provision of scheduled airline services in
regions of Canada and across the Canada United States border. See "Relationships and Related Party Transactions
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Between Air Canada and Jazz, Aeroplan and ACTS — Relationship Between Air Canada and Jazz Jazz Trademark
Agreements". Air Canada protects its proprietary information, including its trademarks and database, through
trademark laws, contractual provisions and confidentiality procedures. Employees, service providers and partners are
contractually bound to protect Air Canada's proprietary information in order to control access to and the distribution of
any such information.
EMPLOYEES
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As at December 31, 2006, the Corporation had 27,384 full-time equivalent ("FTE") employees (Air Canada
Services 23,101; Jazz 4,283). The following table provides a breakdown of the Corporation's average FTE
employees for the fourth quarter of 2006 and 2005 and for the full year 2006 and 2005 together with the unions that
represent them.
Fourth quarter
Fourth quarter
Employee Group
Union
(1)
2006
2005
2006
2005
Management and Administrative Support (3)
N/A (2)
3,017
3,504
3,191
3,410
Pilots
ACPA
2,708
2,541
2,625
2,546
Flight Attendants
CUPE
5,985
6,011
6,062
6,167
Customer Sales and Service Agents (3)
Technical Services, Ramp and Cargo (3)
United Kingdom Unionized Employees
Other Unionized
CAW/IBT
3,650
3,975
3,767
3,962
IAMAW
6,812
6,924
6,812
6,766
Amicus/TGWU
697
682
691
704
478
479
482
488
Air Canada Services
Jazz
Total Consolidated
23,347
24,116
23,630
24,043
4,272
3,801
4,144
3,582
27,619
27,917
27,774
27,625
(1) ACPA: Air Canada Pilots Association; CUPE: Canadian Union of Public Employees; CAW: National Automobile, Aerospace,
Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada; IBT: International Brotherhood of Teamsters; IAMAW: International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers; and TGWU: Transport and General Workers Union.
Certain administrative support employees are represented by IAMAW.
(2)
(3)
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In addition to the numbers presented in the table above, pursuant to the Aeroplan GSA (as defined herein), Aeroplan has agreed to
reimburse Air Canada on a fully-allocated basis for all costs, including salary and benefits, related to a group of call centre employees who
are mainly represented by the CAW currently working for Aeroplan's benefit. Such group represented 853 FTE employees as at December
31, 2006 and 852 FTE employees as at December 31, 2005. These employees are not included in the numbers presented above. See
"Relationships and Related Party Transactions Between Air Canada and Jazz, Aeroplan and ACTS — Relationship Between Air Canada
and Aeroplan Aeroplan GSA". In addition to the numbers presented in the above table, pursuant to the ACTS GSAs (as defined herein),
ACTS has agreed to reimburse Air Canada on a fully-allocated basis for all costs, including salary and benefits, related to a group of
unionized and a group of non-unionized employees currently working for the benefit of ACTS. Such groups represented 3,923 FTE
employees as at December 31, 2006 and 4,063 FTE employees as at December 31, 2005. These employees are not included in the numbers
presented above. On March 6, 2007, ACTS announced that it would permanently reduce 700 jobs at its Vancouver facility because of the
early termination of its contract with Delta Air Lines for maintenance of the Delta Air Lines' Boeing 767 aircraft. See "Relationships and
Related Party Transactions Between Air Canada and Jazz, Aeroplan and ACTS - Relationship between Air Canada and ACTS - General
Services Agreements".
Air Canada has long-term collective bargaining agreements with its pilots, flight attendants, maintenance
personnel, certain clerical and finance personnel, customer service agents, ramp and cargo employees, dispatchers and
crew schedulers which were concluded in 2003 and 2004 and which expire in 2009. No strikes or lock-outs may
lawfully occur during the term of the collective agreements. In 2006, Air Canada concluded wage re-openerView entire presentation