canadiancow

BOB is "Buy On Board". Like every North American flight.

@The smallest state seems to chime into every thread with an extremely angry attitude towards AC. Not sure why.

The smallest state

Disagree entirely. Japan Airlines is another airline. They fly competitive routes and for similar prices. The Space Shuttle hasn't flown since 2003 and never let on paying passengers.

Its the company I work for, the girl who does our bookings goes through a site and Air Canada has the most routes and the most planes. She knows I don't like AC but sometimes she either has to put me on AC metal or the price is so much better that they cannot justify the cost. Since AC pulled out of Providence a few years ago it actually makes things worse for me. I now have to bounce through Chicago or NY.

I'll say this. I'm sorry if I am over the top. I have defended them on occasion and don't want to sound like a broken record or a Lukacs-bot. The short version (and there is a really long version) is I once was bounced from a flight from St. Johns NL to Halifax. So the gate agent put me on another plane to Halifax. It landed in Deer Lake first.............and they cancelled the flight to Halifax. I finally got AC to admit that the agent in charge absolutely knew the Deer Lake to Halifax flight wasn't going to take off. I was the last flight into Deer Lake and I hung around to get my luggage. Well the luggage was sent on the original flight. An RCMP officer told me all the AC employees had left. I get to Deer Lake airport in the morning and the flight was full and nobody knew who I was. I then was flown back to St. John's, spent another night and then to Halifax. (where my luggage was left against a wall with 4 other bags. Just abandoned.....like me). Then I never got the airmiles for the two flights involving Deer Lake, Aeroplan called it "cancelling segments" or "counter segments" or something like that.

The whole time I was treated by some employees who were nice, some employees who were rude and one lady who as I walked away told the next person in line "sorry for the wait, I to work with a stupid American". I turned around, walked back up to her and it was ON!!!!! That led to my second interaction with the RCMP.


Anyways.............I'm don't want to continually bang on AC, they seem to have an inordinately high number of rude employees. One of the things that I love about Canada are the people and the calm, laissez-faire attitude. I should probably adopt that.............

skybluesea

Excellent, I was recently accused by someone else on another thread of being a corporate schill, and now your saying I'm attacking AC at every instance.

Likely means I'm being fair to both sides of the pro/con AC divide.

As it should be, and now time to board AC007, so signing off for a few weeks take care everyone

The smallest state

I think Canadiancow was talking about me, not you.

canadiancow

Yeah, and I'm not sure how I could have possibly made that more clear

cooleddie

Except on South African airways. They offer you two bottles of wine or beer when you ask for it the first time. And then they do another round after dinner service.

The Lev

AC FA's will give you two bottles - just ask.

Fiordland

I remember a flight on TAP where the FA just gave two bottles by default to everyone without asking. That was a "loud" flight.

Rendar

EDIT: Oops, question was answered above - stupid mobile interface not showing the entire thread...