AC126, why do they bother asking if you want to be woken-up for breakfast?
Dec 5, 2019, 5:47 pm
#16
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC SE
Posts: 254
Have been taking the YYZ-LAX every week for past 2 months, Its been hit and miss. Some times they have woken me for breakfast 75 minutes before landing, on a 4 hour red eye flight, like c'mon. A couple of them they gave me until 30 min before which was better. In all honesty, the Cheese service could be cut, Just delays when you can get to sleep. The sneaky part about the wake up is when the seat pulses to start to wake you
Dec 5, 2019, 7:18 pm
#18
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Mississauga Ontario
Posts: 4,094
The flight usually comes in at what, 3 3/4 hours or so?
So the weird karma in this is that the amount of time they are letting you sleep now closely correlates to the amount of time that you have to wait on hold when calling Air Canada post-Amadeus.
Bet you never thought of that math, huh?
So the weird karma in this is that the amount of time they are letting you sleep now closely correlates to the amount of time that you have to wait on hold when calling Air Canada post-Amadeus.
Bet you never thought of that math, huh?
Dec 5, 2019, 9:32 pm
#19
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: USA
Programs: AC SE100K, F9 100k, NK Gold, UA *S, Hyatt Glob, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 5,187
//somewhat related, the worst lack of wake-up service that we've experienced wasn't on AC--it was on an Emirates in F. Instead of an omelette, an expensive in flight shower was at stake. We had a bit of an argument but the FAs relented and let us shower during final descent.
Dec 6, 2019, 12:01 am
#20
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You should've been on the redeye flight with jaysona and I where we both asked to NOT be woken up, but the FA came around and physically shook us awake for breakfast anyway.
Dec 6, 2019, 8:26 am
#21
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC 50K, Marriott Lifetime Platinum
Posts: 1,548
If you sleep on your side and let your arm flop into the aisle, you will be woken up, I guarantee it. When the cart hits your arm, it will remove skin.
The FA did apologize to me, however.
The FA did apologize to me, however.
Dec 7, 2019, 12:25 pm
#23
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Bump! More breakfast wake up non wake up stories please!
The OP's experiences are very common on the transcon redeyes.
or maybe just on 126.
The OP's experiences are very common on the transcon redeyes.
or maybe just on 126.
Dec 7, 2019, 12:58 pm
#24
Join Date: May 2014
Location: YYJ/YYT
Programs: AC 75K (*G), NEXUS
Posts: 652
I've been woken up pretty aggressively on 158 a couple of times so maybe it's just a 126 thing. I can never seem to learn that an extra 30 minutes of sleep is always better than AC breakfast.
Dec 7, 2019, 1:03 pm
#25
Join Date: May 2013
Location: YYT/YYC/TPE
Programs: AC SE, UA, National Exec Elite, Nexus, GE
Posts: 1,810
Dec 7, 2019, 8:47 pm
#26
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Canada
Programs: AC*SE
Posts: 1,921
My real problem with any of those red eye flights is half the FAs turn all the lights on, or quite bright and then even if I don't want to wake up i'm awake. Generally on Canadian red eyes I get more 'dark' time in Y which is nuts.
Dec 8, 2019, 2:41 am
#27
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80% of the time I find it to be DGAF crews.