MONTREAL — Air Canada delayed or cancelled nearly 2,000 flights over the Canada Day long weekend in a potential taste of more trouble ahead for passengers. Roughly half of all trips by the country's biggest airline — including its lower-cost Air Canada Rouge and regional partner Jazz Aviation — were disrupted Saturday through Monday, according to figures from tracking service FlightAware. The 1,965 flight delays and cancellations — over 52 per cent of scheduled flights — stand in contrast to num
    • grte@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      Maybe yet another cash infusion from the government will help them remember.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        The privatization of Air Canada was a mistake

        In fact, the privatization of most Canadian crown corporations was a mistake

        From a government perspective, connecting remote areas has economic advantages through improved trade, better access to services, and eventually increased economic growth/more tax revenue. For private corporations, none of these advantages materialize.

        That’s why China is able to afford a trillion dollars of debt to build HSR when nobody else can: it allows them to push economic growth away from tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou) and towards tier 2 and tier 3 cities.

    • Canuck1701@lemmy.ca
      01·
      1 year ago

      Yes, they should just pay to have extra planes sitting in a hanger all year that they only take out for high travel periods /s

      • TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        Maybe they shouldn’t sell tickets to seats on planes that don’t exist or aren’t in service.

        That aside, many companies are now trying out the latest management craze… ‘Run to fail’… That is, running equipment until it fails (and fucks everything up) is cheaper than doing regular maintenance. They don’t care about the pressure and stress it puts on employees or customers, they just care that it saves a couple bucks.

        • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          JetBlue doesn’t overbook and they have similar load factors to the big US legacy carriers, so it’s clearly possible to not overbook

  • Mrmcmisterson@slightlyawesome.ninja
    1·
    1 year ago

    Airlines are getting so unreliable. Flair airlines kept passengers on the tarmac for 10 hours with no food and water onboard the other day as well.

    Corporations has lost focus, while the idea is that you are supposed to bring in money all the time, you also should want customers to be happy with your product so you have repeat customers.

  • Colrok@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    Air Canada has been cancelling and delaying flights like crazy this year. Walking through the airports I can’t count the number of times I overheard “Never booking AC again”. Schedules changing ruins entire holidays or business trips…

  • SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ll be flying for the first time in nearly 5 years later this month. It has a connecting flight. I feel like I’m going to spend a bunch of time in an airport.