tight-packed schedules

Extra hardware.

Not something sitting there hot and ready to go, but there to take the place of the flight. Maintain a one-unit queue of planes ready to board and launch so that each and every plane sits for 2 hours and is actually prepped.

Or, when that inevitable daily breakage happens and a plane needs to be taken off the line for the day, it allows time to bring in another spare to keep that queue full (of 1) when the rotation loses that active plane.

there was nothing they could do

I’m willing to bet ‘showing basic humanity’ was an available option the flight crew was just unable to consider.

Pierre will tell us we’re still over-funded and his rich friends should pay even less taxes than the pittance they’re paying now.

With no extra airplanes, they probably don’t have time.

Again, the problem comes down to no extra equipment; even when it would give them the lag time to properly clean between departures at no added hw maintenance or aircrew costs.

Agreed. We’ve had just so many experiences of negligence and apathy from Air Canada that we’ve given up on them and also consider them an airline of last resort. We’ll move dates and locations to open up other options before considering them, as well, and even reconsider just not going.

Great news for Air Canada is that Westjet got bought and declined sharply since then, so they’re only much better than Air Canada instead of being in a different category completely as before.

Now do ‘home and native land.’

Not being psychic, I’d be far more reluctant to over-leverage assumptions like that.

Thank you for this excellent summary. It answers all the questions I had, and it’s wonderful news.

dairy subsidies

Do you mean Canada’s dairy supply management system?

That article is definitely not a Neutral Point of View!

About 80% savage, that one, and almost as scathing as required. People need to be answering hard questions about this one for years.