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How do you not know that the "border closure" is referring to vehicle traffic? The "border" was never closed to air traffic.

I actually like this one. Flair's is on a whole other level of terrible god awful bad.

Sure but that's not going to happen.

Or you could say nobody will make money at a cap of 60% capacity.

Hi Kip, I did not suggest doctors or nurses should be minimized nor did I suggest they shouldn't receive "free anything". I am simply pointing out that many other people deserve credit for the situation they find themselves in via their employment. Nothing more, nothing less.

Maybe I'm in a sour mood.. Nurses deserve credit, 100%. But so too do the doctors and janitors at hospitals; firefighters, police officers, and paramedics attending emergencies; customer service agents at grocery stores, liquor stores, gas stations; flight crews; and anyone else who has to be "exposed" to the general public. These aren't heroes these are people doing their jobs because they have to while some people don't. Nurses deserve a lot of credit I just don't want to diminish the contributions of a lot of other people in society right now.

Nailed it. The level of optimism/hope from the employee group at large needs a reality check. The false hope of things getting better fast sets a bad tone. I prefer the doom and gloom because that's exactly how bad it is. This is as honest as you can get and people need to realize they better polish up their resumes and start looking for the next job because for a lot of people that's the reality they face but have chosen to avoid acknowledging. I also think the statements are directed to the government equally as much as the workforce and general public. Of course we want to grow and of course we want to be bigger than we are today. We can't do it without government support so help us (airline) help you (economy). Get moving on the loans you keep promising us.

What is it?

It will be interesting to see how flights come back. You have to think that there will be cluster countries (low rates/deaths) that would open up their doors to each other vs. automatically opening otherwise wide open and highly travelled borders (i.e. Canada/USA). You have to think the AC/AT deal will fall apart because of this and AT may very well become the first Canadian casualty. AC and WJ will both shrink significantly over the next 5 years.

WestJet provides masks for repatriation flights. Has been doing so prior to the order.

So basically no consistency. Awesome.

Person flying required to provide their own? Or airline provided? Who denies boarding?

Sorry to hear that. How high up in tenure are the layoffs going?

I stand to be corrected but the pilots have avoided layoff up until this point. This would appear to be in-line with cuts across other operational groups.

This is a good idea. Lots of work to be found across organizations that wish to exploit "downtime".