Originally Posted by
FlyerJ
in fairness, planes do get grounded for mechanical reasons all the time. And repairs might take two hours, or they might take two days.
I don’t doubt that airlines bend the truth on reasons for delays and cancellations, but it’s pretty tough to claim that an aircraft went out of service and then keep flying it.
With so many WestJet flights in and out of Cancun every day, how do you know for sure that the plane you were tracking wasn’t assigned to a different WestJet flight, or that it wasn’t repaired and returned to service quickly?. Do you have the tail number that was assigned to their flight?
easy. Tracked the tailed number. It changed from the flight they were booked on to go home to a different flight number. And that flight went to YYC.
my friends went to gate X. The inbound flight arrived. It got cancelled. They asked everyone to leave the gate area and brought over the original Regina passengers (some of them) loaded them on the plane and off they went