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A controversial Montreal entrepreneur is planning a new international airline with luxury jumbo jets on which passengers can smoke and get massaged at bargain prices. His name is Steve Z. Nasra and outside charter operation circles, he’s unknown. His carrier, Canada Air Charter will fly used Boeing 747 – 300s, with Montreal’s Mirabel airport as its home base. On a normal 747, there are about 400 passengers. Planes will carry about 270. Passengers will get monster seats. Babies get bassinets. Sky marshals trained in martial arts and a slew of video cameras will provide security. Stressed-out flyers can gawk at fish in an aquarium or flake out with audio-video stations at every seat. Executives can meet in secluded conference rooms. The destinations: overseas only. The price: comparable or cheaper than what people already pay. Nasra has worked in the travel industry for 30 years. He runs Multivoyages-Haiti Air Charter, 514.840.1146 , which flies people to Port-au-Prince. Weeks ago, he started another charter company, Canada Air Charter, which plans to begin flying people overseas in May as written in The Gazette by Nicolas van Praet . Nasra has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, bodybuilds with Arnold Schwartzenegger’s former training partner and flies his own fighter jet with the L39 Albatross Northern Light aerobatic team. The first Montreal-Italy flight will be June 20, 2002. two departures weekly, on Thursdays and Saturdays. |
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