Jebby_ca

Yup there was one for a while. The lights were flashing for at least 30mins.

BlondeBomber

Got out of YYZ on 4:10 PM flight yesterday and all was well (as was inbound on Wednesday--perhaps a 5 minute delay)--I live a charmed life^.

We did fly through rough weather fairly quickly though en route to YYC so don't doubt rapidly deteriorating weather/winds.

PB53x11

My flight yesterday from YSB - scheduled 4:40 departure - was delayed four hours. Weather and, I'm sure, YYZ runway delays - there was quite the hail storm in Sudbury. Knocked out power to the airport, so the restaurant was closed, water fountains stopped working, and they closed the washrooms. And of course my laptop ran out of juice. (All this after I'd had a 2 1/2 hour delay out of YYC the night before (mechanical)!)

Luckily Bearskin came through with a bottle of water for me - kudos to them. AC could learn from them.

jsfrSE

On April 23 on AC 15, we took off on time at 10:09 and landed in Hong Kong 40 minutes ahead of schedule.

Perhaps morning flights are less affected than afternoon or evening flights?

D404

Only true out of YYZ. Any outstation going to YYZ, the morning flights have been fairly consistently cancelled, since the previous nights flights were cancelled, and there are no aircrafts.

BlondeBomber

Update: the flight I was originally going out on (AC145) was delayed almost 4 hours. Glad I took the earlier flight . . .

Antonio8069

IMO, the real issue is cancellations. On April 28, my flight YYZ-YOW was one of many cancelled. It is a real dog & pony show.........the airline blames Pearson, and Pearson says the airlines decide which flights to cancel. Who to believe? Pox on both of them. It is possible to complete the runway construction and maintain flight schedules. But they don't/won't.

D404

I've been flying through YTZ on PD instead to avoid the YYZ clusterfudge where possible on shorthauls (more than enough AQD/AQM for 2018 status...). Having a jet/J for YYZ-YUL/NYC/YOW/whatever is not worth transiting YYZ right now IMO, at all.

Sat in Europe for the next while and hopefully the YYZ mess will be cleared up by the time I make it back...

yyz_atc_qq

100% it's the airlines choice. Neither we (ATC) nor they (GTAA) tell airlines which flights to fly and which to cancel. Same thing goes for delays..... The airlines decide on their own which to cancel and which to delay.

True story.... I was on a UAX flight from IAD back to YYZ last May. Got a 45min delay due thunderstorms.... just as we boarded for the new time, they announced a further 2 hours. I called work and asked what was up since from what I saw it wasn't that bad. Turns out our time hadn't changed. UA chose to give the time to a mainline ORD-YYZ flight and delay us further. That took the extra 2 hours out of weather outside of their control, to an operational decision and wholly within their control. I wrote in asking for compensation due to the delay, they initially responded "WEATHER", so when I wrote back telling them that if they checked, the first 45min was weather, the additional 2 hours was an operational choice, they came back with a reasonable compensation.

Simon

The craziness continues today with YOW-YYZ.

Mrs. Simon is now taking PD instead to YTZ as a result.

They know this will happen every day, and no proactive measures are taken.

Someone should be getting sued.

canadiancow

What would you suggest? YOW-YUL-YTZ instead of YOW-YYZ?

I'd be very shocked if you couldn't ask for that.

I realize it's not "proactive" if you have to ask though.

I'm just glad I have no plans to fly to YYZ until late June. Not that I'm convinced things will be better then...

Simon

So now, because of all the cancellations all day, they have sent in a 777-300 to operate YOW-YYZ at 20:50.

Ridiculous.

flybit

AC new about the planned runway maintenance for a year and definite dates 6 months ago.
Clearly AC just have no ability to plan.

ChrisA330

That's also due to the fact AC889 returned to LHR so there wasn't a 767 to operate the flight.

SKYEG

I had a friend trying to get to YUL on Thursday night and she was delayed. She finally got out early AM Fri. Felt so bad for her as she had meetings that morning