Air Canada zero vs Westjet 5 cancels YYZ-YUL - why?
Dec 10, 2014, 10:13 pm
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Air Canada zero vs Westjet 5 cancels YYZ-YUL - why?
How can AC run flights to YUL in snowy weather today with zero cancels from YYZ and minimal delays while Westjet scrubs last 5 flights? Just booked a cnx on WS in Jan to YUL and am concerned by this as I have meetings to attend!
Dec 11, 2014, 6:36 am
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Everything is just one phone call away, no queue and no wait, especially for those lowly non-SE with no access to the "Concierge" even when flying business class.
Dec 11, 2014, 7:20 am
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WS is also finally setting up a crew base outside of Calgary - but to my knowledge is still dependant on many YYC based crew to operate flights to points beyond.
Also as someone pointed out already 737s... WS has no large widebodies which they can throw on in their downtime to move larger quanitities of people and bags. Its why it took them and Porter so much longer than AC to recover to normal operations from last winters major mess.
Also as someone pointed out already 737s... WS has no large widebodies which they can throw on in their downtime to move larger quanitities of people and bags. Its why it took them and Porter so much longer than AC to recover to normal operations from last winters major mess.
Dec 11, 2014, 11:17 am
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The main reason for this could be de-icing equipment. At a lot of airports, AC owns their de-icing equipment and Westjet uses the airports equipment. At busy times, the airport equipment can't keep up, causing delays or cancelled flights. Multiple times over the winter, my AC flight get de-iced and Westjet flights do not.
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Dec 11, 2014, 11:21 am
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Agree, I saw on the news that Westjet had to cancel every flight out of YEG (i think it was) because at that airport every airline has to provide their own deicer and Westjet ran out!
Dec 11, 2014, 11:21 am
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The main reason for this could be de-icing equipment. At a lot of airports, AC owns their de-icing equipment and Westjet uses the airports equipment. At busy times, the airport equipment can keep up, causing delays or cancelled flights. Multiple times over the winter, my AC flight get de-iced and Westjet flights do not.
Dec 11, 2014, 11:25 am
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Maybe we should go in the deicing business... Setup some kind of lemonade stand at the end of the run way. Except we would sell de-icing fluid instead of lemonade. Although we could expand to hot chocolate for the ground staff...
But really? That is kind of sad. I can understand delays due to mechanical problems, or sick pilot, but cancellation because of a lack of de-icing fluid in a Canadian airport would be (to me) the equivalent of Pizza joint running out of cheese.