My 17-year-old son is flying Air Canada from Osaka to Vancouver to Montreal. I was just wondering, as I've flown that route many times before, if he will have to take all his bags off when he arrives in Vancouver? If I remember correctly, not only did I have to go collect my bags somewhere but then I had to re-check them in in some out-of-the-way gulag and then walk a mile to catch my connecting flight to Montreal.

Is this still the procedure? He is travelling this coming Tuesday the 23rd and I need to warn him what to expect when he lands in Vancouver. The poor boy was going the opposite direction once a couple of years ago and he got off in Vancouver expecting to pick up his bags. Of course he didn't have to, so he couldn't find them and he missed his only flight to Osaka and had to be rescued by a woman who took him home for the night and brought him back the next day.

I don't want him to go through that again!

Many thanks in advance

Nick