Originally Posted by
Travellin_man
I don't read that the delay was 1 hour. I read that the flight would have been at its destination in 1 hour if it had carried on. I assume that landing, deplaning, rearranging, negotiating, replaning, taxiing, off-taking might have taken much more than an hour, even for the most fortunate.
That's what I read it as, as well. And if that were the case, then I can't see the need to divert in the first place. By the time they landed in YYC, and got everything prepared again, they could have "gone" in YVR already.