J.O.

Well this is just great. I can't count the number of times I've seen a fellow passenger fire up their phone on final approach to start sending and receiving text messages before we're on the ground. https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/reference-centre/civil-aviation-safety-alerts/potential-risk-interference-5g-signals-radio-altimeter-civil-aviation-safety-alert-casa-no-2021-08

IMHO, that's a waste of bacon. ?

I don’t recall all of the details but I do remember a ruling from several years ago that prohibited the Canadian carriers from sharing their “no fly” lists with each other. I can’t recall if that was tried in court or if it was appealed through the CTA.

Thankfully I did say "I believe". Clearly they are still using the 215s for NWT.

I’m not quite 60 yet but Astra Zeneca kicked my arse first time around, but good luck to you! ?

How do these people survive in a world that’s literally full of rules that define acceptable behaviour? Sheesh.

The vast majority of recent air rage cases are started by people who disagree with mandatory mask policies. How is that class warfare?

I believe NWT stopped using the 215s when they acquired the AT802 Fire Bosses in 2017 / 2018. Not sure if they took the NWT aircraft, but Longview / Viking has been buying up older piston 215s in the hopes selling them as 515 EAF conversions. At north of $30 million a pop, the customer base is small. You can buy more water capacity in Fire Bosses for a lot less money.

Maybe this is nature’s way of equalizing the planet since they pretty much kicked COVID’s butt down the road.

I use a password vault app called Secure Safe. They’ve already added a feature which allows the user to access a scan of their vaccination record from the home screen. I think we’ll see more such things in the near future. I’d bet Apple is already trying to add it to their Health app.

Stand by for a Twitter meltdown courtesy of Marjorie Taylor Green. Wonder what human tragedy she'll try to compare this to?

I stand corrected.

The same rules apply and there are a limited number of airports where such arrivals are being accommodated by CBSA.

You are entitled to this belief and you are certainly not alone. Here's why I think your conclusions are a little unfair. I've tried to look at this from a familiar place and compare it to a similar crisis in aviation. I looked for an incident that presented similar issues. For best fit, it would need to be one which: the captain and crew had no hand in creating it - they were simply the ones on duty that day; none of the crew had ever seen it before, either for real or in a simulator; there was no SOP or checklist; the crew's ability to respond was significantly hampered by one or more unknown factors; and no matter what they decided, someone was probably going to die. The best example I found was the UAL DC10 that suffered a catastrophic engine failure and lost all hydraulics, leaving Captain Al Haines and crew with very little control over the aircraft. We all know how that day turned out. We also know that in spite of a textbook case of the application of CRM principles, many people still died that day when they "landed" at Sioux City. Yet not once have I heard anyone lay even a modest amount of criticism at the feet of Haines and his crew. They were lauded as heroes for their efforts because they had somehow managed to pull off a miracle. Yet none of them basked in the light of their accolades. They were all steadfast in their disappointment that things didn't turn out better, but they took solace in the fact that they did the best they could with what they had available. None of our current government leaders is responsible for the state of Canada's level of preparedness for a global pandemic on the day before this thing broke (sorry, but SARS was a mere blip by comparison). Our lack of preparedness was decades in the making. None of our current leaders negotiated the free trade deals that saw almost all of our pharmaceutical manufacturing capability move offshore. Every leader (nationally AND provincially) has made decisions which were later found wanting, but in many cases those findings came after more data was gathered and the situation was better understood. But according to some, their mere position of power makes them responsible for a lack of before-the-fact hindsight. IMHO, that's like saying Al Haines should have been able to spot that impending turbine failure during his walkaround, or that he should have anticipated that such a blade failure could wipe out all of the hydraulics on his airplane. Sure, okay, sounds reasonable ... I am not suggesting that all criticism be muzzled, I merely believe that our criticisms should require us to understand that none of us was being asked to make the decisions as this situation has evolved. I for one am glad that we've had the leadership we've had - warts and all. When this thing has passed and there's been time for reflection, I suspect that unlike the recently deposed man to the south, every political leader in this country will sincerely wish we could have stopped it sooner and that more lives could have been saved. They'll wish the damage to our social fabric had been less pronounced and that we could have come through this with less economic cost. I hope someday we'll all have a chance to reflect and at least try to understand that for all of the troubles this mess has brought, the notion that making decisions for an entire province or a country when so much uncertainty prevails is not for the faint of heart.

Engaging in hyperbole does nothing to advance your argument.

You’ve established your priorities over a number of comments on this subject, and unfortunately you seem unable to understand that the attitude you put forward touches a nerve - not just with a few on here - but with a fair chunk of your fellow citizens. Suggesting that those who disagree with you are somehow lacking in intelligence is the final icing on a pretty smug cake, IMHO.

A colleague connected through DFW last week on his way home from simulator training. He said it was just as busy as every other time he's gone through there.

Not to mention putting 30,000 out of work while the CEO cashed in on over $20 million in bonuses last year.

Lol! That UAV also carried a small piece of fabric from the original Wright flyer - a pretty cool gesture on someone's part.

It's getting ridiculous. A sheet of 3/4" pressure treated plywood was $145 at the local lumber yard yesterday. Non-treated was only $8 cheaper.

But if they arrive via a land border, CBSA has no means to enforce a hotel stay. Whether or not they chose to fly into Buffalo (or any other airport near the border) isn't relevant.

I would say no, since the hotel stay requirement only applies to passengers arriving on international flights.

The aviation industry remembers the well deserved criticism against the so-called increases in security that we faced post-9/11 and how it amounted to little more than lipstick on the proverbial pig (harassing innocent people instead of targeting actual risks). Given the facts around the greatest contributors to COVID case spread, it's not hard to see why so many are questioning the validity of our current travel restrictions. They have more holes than all of the cheese in Zurich.

Just because it is called the Brazilian variant does not mean it was imported from Brazil. The virus naturally mutates everywhere it lives. It's entirely possible it mutated right here in BC. The Spanish flu didn't come from Spain ...

So all he needs to do is bamboozle a smaller neighbour into giving up their own pharmaceutical industry in exchange for a free trade deal, then we can all live high on the hog. Trudeau has hardly been a shining star over the past year but it wasn't his government who sold our pharmaceutical independence down the road to get a deal. We're all paying the price for that mistake even though it's more than a 1/4 century old, because not unexpectedly, most countries (including the USA) are prioritizing their own citizens first and we get their leftovers. Lucky you to have slipped past that one.