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Jan 21, 2019, 5:23 pm

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Originally Posted by narvik

Only because no one has had the gumption to set this up. From the pictures I have seen, accommodating 250 persons in a secure area for exactly this type of event should be a fairly easy thing to accomplish....IME.

There would be room in the terminal, but is a domestic terminal and not designed for this type of situation. Given the timeline for the events, this is hard to accommodate that quickly.

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Originally Posted by mellon

UGH, as a Canadian why did we bother with "customs" just let the people off the plane! I guess there was probably a lack of transport to hotels and probably no hotels to go to. However why did we need customs, nobody was going to run away in -30. And even if some passenger did want to stay in Canada at -30 they would change their mind in a hurry

It's not about 'customs', it's about immigration clearance. This event is far from an emergency which would require those formalities to be suspended IMO.

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