Originally Posted by yulred

If we’re defining “disaster” as loss of life and structural integrity', then this one clearly isn’t one. Yet.

But it’s right up there with LHR 2010 in sheer chaos and (probable) incompetence. Perhaps worse; I don’t recall people being stranded on planes for 5hr+ back then.

I’ll go ahead and risk getting flamed for saying what a lot of folk are thinking right now: how in the world does an international hub in a country known for its winters, not have a plan, means or strategy to get passengers off aircraft for hours on end? Even during regular working hours.

If this had happened at LHR, let’s just say that they would have been held to a different, much higher standard. There, they got roasted because people were “stuck” in the relative comfort of a terminal in 2010. Here, we’re pretending that it’s not so bad that people are stuck in airplanes for several hours after 10+ hr flights, to the point that food and water are running out.

YVR management needs to lose this small town mentality if it wants to pretend to be a quality act. Maybe spend those AIFs on contingency planning, instead of gimmicky interiors.