InTheAirGuy

Porter is the new Eastern Provincial Airways then.

Back in the day, in YHZ, it would go like this:

"Air Canada announces the cancellation of Flight xxxx to YYYYY due to weather."

30 seconds later.

"Eastern Provincial Airways would like to announce we are still flying too YYYYY on Flight XXXXX. Come see us over at Gate zzzzz"

RangerNS

AC pilots tend to be older. Which means they have died less.

tracon

Last night's HNL-YYZ stops in YVR.
https://www.flightaware.com/live/fli...740Z/PHNL/CYVR

vancouver25k

AC564 cancelled today, AC566 swapped from 7M8 to 77L. Still 28/40 in J and 0/24 in PY, with 7 names on the list currently.

YXXFlyer

Old news: January 7, AC877 LYS-YUL cancelled as the outbound flight went mechanical in YUL. I got to sit on AC843 in Y on an I fare, while my wife enjoyed my eUp in J on an N fare.

AC203 cancelled for unknown reason.
AC205 cancelled as the right hand motor wouldn't start after de-icing.

AC is on a roll with my tickets so far...

Bohemian1

There's a "Flight deck crew shortage" notation in EF, but unsure where (HNL or YVR) that shortage existed.

vernonc

Not a good start to my first trip this year with AC.
AC1701 on 08 Jan - more than a 2 hr dep delay followed by 1hr at LAS waiting for a gate. Reason given was late arriving aircraft with a medical emergency.
AC1700 on 15 Jan - rolling delay, currently 3hr 40mins delay. Let's see what the final dep time will be. Reason is 'operational delay'.
Can someone please look up the delay reasons? Want to see if I am entitled to compensation.

Bohemian1

For 1701:

There's nothing useful for 1700 today. Just an internal 05 code that has no explanation.

vernonc

Thanks

vernonc

Delay is now 6hrs and the reason has changed from the generic operational issues to weather related due to incoming flight.
Some of my team has their flight canceled from LAS to YYZ a few days back too.

Edit: And now the flight is cancelled. What a .... show. 2 hr delay, 3 hr delay, 4 hr delay, 5 hr delay, 6 hr delay and then cancel. Could have gone out on the WestJet flight and now no direct option till the red eye.

tracon

HNL-YYZ would most likely need 3 pilots.
If one took ill in Hawaii........

CdnFlier

What sources are there for the delay reasons? i know EF publishes them, but that's only one day in the past. Is there a source look further back than that?

Bohemian1

EF will usually go back two calendar days. But there's no publicly available source for delays that goes back further.

tracon

Looks like AC is proactively canceling YVR departures for the upcoming snow fall.
Several late this evening and most of tomorrow mornings flights are affected.

arf04

We are on a 014 ticket tomorrow via FRA to YYZ and LH has cancelled the inbound but not the outbound as of yet. As the flight we are on is a straight out and back if the aircraft isn’t coming then we are definitely not going back tomorrow. I’d like to be proactive but I can see how, logically, AC won’t be willing to rebook us onto an alternate route that would allow us to leave tomorrow? We are in TFS, which is not the worst place to get stuck for a few days of course… but if we can get rebooked onto TP via LIS we should avoid the worst weather in Western Europe and still get back to canada on schedule.

So, my question: is there any point in calling AC before the LH/4Y flight we are on tomorrow is actually cancelled? I can’t see that it will operate given the status of the inbound. We are on a J booking and E50 if that makes any difference. It was certainly a good week to be away from western Canada!

Edit to add: it looks like LH/4Y are sending the plane in tonight so that explains the lack of a cancellation.