{"id":179,"date":"2014-09-16T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2014-09-16T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:52:30","slug":"alberta-government-to-sell-air-fleet-use-charters-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/2014\/09\/16\/alberta-government-to-sell-air-fleet-use-charters-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta government to sell air fleet, use charters instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/polopoly_fs\/1.2009579!\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_225\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Prentice on Sept. 6, 2014\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;EDMONTON &#8212; The Alberta government&#8217;s controversial fleet of airplanes will soon be gone with the wind, Premier Jim Prentice announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Prentice said the first decision of his new cabinet was to sell the four-plane fleet that had become a public\u00a0relations millstone around the neck of the Progressive Conservative government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Effective immediately, the premier and ministers will be expected to fly commercial as the primary method of transportation,&#8221; Prentice told a legislature news conference.Operating costs have been pegged at about $9.5 million a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The move affects 27 union jobs, and Prentice says while he&#8217;s not sure what will happen to these employees, they will be treated as &#8220;humanely&#8221; as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Read more:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/alberta-government-to-sell-air-fleet-use-charters-instead-1.2009567#ixzz3DWAgA6pa\">http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/alberta-government-to-sell-air-fleet-use-charters-instead-1.2009567#ixzz3DWAgA6pa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/alberta-government-to-sell-air-fleet-use-charters-instead-1.2009567\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/alberta-government-to-sell-air-fleet-use-charters-instead-1.2009567<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;EDMONTON &#8212; The Alberta government&#8217;s controversial fleet of airplanes will soon be gone with the wind, Premier Jim Prentice announced Tuesday. Prentice said the first decision of his new cabinet was to sell the four-plane fleet that had become a public\u00a0relations millstone around the neck of the Progressive Conservative government. &#8220;Effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}