I had the longest flight (flying time) from YYZ to LGA ever!!

Was suppose to be on the AC 718 Today leaving at 1600h... However, the flight was cancelled due to weather in NYC. What annoyed the heck out of me was that no one at the Maple Leaf Lounge informed me of the cancellation.. I found out the hard way by going to the gate... and was told it was cancelled.

Anyways, was rebooked on fligh 720 leaving at 1700h... The flight was delayed by about half an hour... They upgraded the plane to an A321 (former CP plane)... The seats were CP Blue

Anyways, finally took off and half an hour to LGA, the pilot anounced that due to flight congestion at LGA, we would be on a holding position until 1900... Well, 1900 came and went and we were told we would be flying in circles until 2000...

Guess what... 20:00 came and went, and the pilot came back on again to announce that if we did not get clearance from Tracffic Control by 2015h, then we would land in EWR..

Finally we got clearance from ATC, and landed at 20:30...

YYZ-LGA took 3:30 hours flying time!! When I add my time at the airport for my earlier flight, total time was 6:30 hours!

Long day.and will be a long night... wating for my next flight JFK-HKG.. apparently that one is delayed 3 hours

No former CP A321s. It's AF.

Simon

AC hasn't bothered to recover the AF planes? How long have they been, will they be, in the fleet?

There are 3 A321s leased from AF but they were configured with seats from ex-CAIL A320s. [They are not AF seats] These 3 A321s have limited range so you'll only see them on short/medium haul routes.

Too bad it wasn't fromYYZ_flyer's YYZ-LGA flight, you bet he wouldn't mind the 4 hours airtime.

[This message has been edited by Empress (edited 08-29-2003).]

Ahhh... that makes a bit more sense than just leaving Air France seats.

Those AF 321s are also power by the hour.

I think I was on one of those A321s on my D reward ticket return trip from SFO to YYZ. Nice plane; one of the cabin crew mentioned something about Air France and I now make the connection!

[This message has been edited by Hogtowner (edited 08-30-2003).]

I have also been in very long YYZ-LGA and YYZ-ORD flights due to weather, airport congestion etc etc. The normally 60 minute flights ended up being 3-5 hours long. One time I had about 5 minutes to catch my connecting flight to FRA in ORD when my earlier YYZ-ORD flight ended up taking close to 4 hours (from scheduled departure to actual arrival in ORD).

I guess that is part of the life of business travellers.

Oh, I've been on long IAD-EWR and IAD-SFO flights before. Thunderstorms are just absolutely great...