I don’t collect airline menus, but this one was so pretty I couldn’t resist. When Canadian Pacific Airlines wasn’t using dining car menus, which it rarely did, it usually used menus with pictures of historic airplanes on the covers. However, at some point it began putting birds on the covers.
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This menu has a printer code that includes “0181,” which I interpret to mean it was printing in January 1981. The menu, which is in English, French, and German, also prominently states that it was used in “Connaiseur Service.” For at least some airlines, including rival Air Canada, this was the same as business class. The menu offered entrées of beef, pork, or meat pie, which suggests few people flying business class in 1981 were vegetarians.
The menu notes that the broad-winged hawk is “Found in summer east of the Rocky Mountains, where it lives in the remote forest, close to swamp or boggy lake, it gathers in September or October in bands (which can number thousands of individuals) to start its lazy-looking, wheeling, drifting and circling, journey to its winter habitat.” Wikipedia notes that they live as far south as Texas in the summers and migrate to as far south as southern Brazil for the winters.
Have to chime in, but in 1980, I do not recall any Business Class. First and Economy/Tourist was about it.