The drink menu is worldly as well. There are 101 wines on the wine list and 101 beers on the beer list. See a theme here? A pint of Guatemala Famosa ($5.77), Slovakia Golden Pheasant (8.57) or South Africa Castle Lager ($5.77) will probably taste the same as every other beer, but at least you’ll feel more, shall we say, cultured.

Mike Ritchie opened up Flight Deck with the help of over forty of his fellow West Jet comrades who were kind enough to invest. I would imagine that being a pilot would make a person crave a home base – a warm place to have a good meal, a pint and a game of soccer on the TV.

Mike has succeeded in this enterprise although he must be expecting everyone he knows to show up every night of the week, because the place is huge. It seats 440 people indoors and is fitted with over 100 TV screens, not one of which is on the arrivals and departures out of Calgary International. The size of the place makes Flight Deck feel like an airplane hangar. With a little more help from the designer, Flight Deck could be turned into something special.