Originally Posted by
Wigg
In today's Globe & Mail article it states some foreign and sun destination flights could be affected as early as Sept. 13. Unfortunately there was no indication of which routes.
Originally Posted by
RatherBeInYOW
Yeah the Globe followed up from the Reuters piece I linked this morning with some more reporting.
Originally Posted by
YOWCDNFF
13th... or 15th? I know there are several different articles on the topic, but the few that I have seen mentioned that the plan would be activated on the 15th
I'm not sure why the focus on the Globe's reporting on this, which appears to be poor paraphrasing. The AC release says "Some activities would need to start as early as Friday, September 13, including the cancellation of some holiday packages and the grounding of some aircraft." It also says cancellations will begin on the 15th.
It seems that the 13th is mentioned mostly in the context of AC Vacations packages - for example, if AC has sold a week-long flight + hotel package from the 14th to the 21st and expects to cancel the return flight, you can see how they would want to cancel the trip before the outbound is flown.
No passenger turn takes more than about 30 hours to complete, so there doesn't seem to be any need to cancel flights on the 13th or 14th if the strike starts on the 18th. If they ground an aircraft on the 13th or 14th but weren't going to need it in the following days, does it really make a difference? And if there are some weird cargo milk runs that will be cancelled before the 15th because they take a few days to complete, does it matter to anyone on FT?