Flew Calgary-Edmonton-Calgary Monday and Tuesday up and down once in Executive Class on AC on DC-9s and up and down once on Dash 8s.

Flights were mostly empty again except for flight (4:00 pm) back when our DC9 went mechanical and they cancelled the flight (which also meant all DC9 flights for the rest of the day). The DASH 8s are OK but no good for upgrades.

I have quite a few Super Elite upgrades to get rid of so I have been trying my best to give them to friends and acquaintances and even using them on short hop flights like YEG-YYC.

The flight cancellation had a lot of travellers concerned as most were connecting through YYC to FRA. When they offloaded all the FRA bound passengers first I don't think there was more than a couple of people left on board the DC9. I was wondering if they cancelled due to a lack of passengers?

Anyway, there were lots of people bumped from the next (4:30) flight to make way for the FRA passengers and there was no room for me or several people already confirmed on the 4:30 flight. I thought it would make the following flight (5:30) full so I volunteered but no luck--the flight was full but no one was left at the gate. Too bad, I could have worked in the Maple Leaf lounge and caught a later flight. So I got no compensation--wonder if AC will do some automatic credit or if I should write?

At least the Calgary Maple Leaf lounge had French pastries, cereal etc. for breakfast (unlike the weekend where there was nothing).

This was also the first time I had flown standby for a later flight in the day after missing an earlier flight. There didn't seem to be any problem and there is no fee charged. I was concerned that they might cancel my ticket as it was the originating flight. I often fly standby for earlier flights than those I am booked on.




[This message has been edited by BlondeBomber (edited 09-02-1999).]