19 May 2016

The new COPA Flight — Coming up next!

By Bernard Gervais, COPA President & CEO

The last COPA Flight in newsprint format. The July issue of COPA Flight will be a full colour magazine format, our first in collaboration with our partner Canadian Aviator Publishing (CAP). Why change? To save a whole lot of money and allocate the membership dues on aviation services, not printing. We are not in the newspaper business and believe it or not, printing on newspaper costs almost double than printing a magazine. When we switched from magazine to newsprint many years ago, it was to save on printing costs of those days. How ironic.

As we move along, this outsourcing deal will leverage CAP's experience of just-in-time aviation news delivery, improving your online experience on the website and complemented by a regular newsletter. Rest assured COPA Flight will be a different publication than the well-respected Canadian Aviator. It will still be the association's magazine and COPA will maintain editorial control and content management. COPA Flight will still be COPA Flight. But in a better, revamped, more pertinent format with perhaps a few surprises once in a while. You will like it as much as we are excited to see these changes. But don't just take my word for it. See you next month in a glossy colour magazine.

6 comments:

Amlan said...

Hello,

Will it also be available electronically? I would be more than happy with that format plus it saves postage costs.

thx
Amlan

Michael Shaw said...

Hi Amlan

We suspect it will be available electronically, but to find out for sure you might want to contact COPA National. They have offices here in Ottawa at 75 Albert, a website at http://www.copanational.org/, Tel.: 613-236-4901; Fax: 613-236-8646.

Adam Hunt said...

I hadn't heard that an electronic version was going to be offered, but if enough people ask I am sure that could be a future option.

Amlan said...

Hi Adam,

That would be great. I was thinking it could just be a PDF that we can download. Similar to what the FAA does with their bi-monthly Safety Briefing.

thx
Amlan

Adam Hunt said...

Sounds like a god suggestion to me! You need to make that request to the COPA office, as Mike indicated above.

Amlan said...

Thanks. Will do.