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No problem? That's what someone who's never flown a situation like this would say.

A refund and compensation are not the same thing. These people are demanding compensation. In your example this would mean getting your $600 ticket price back and an additional $1500 or, perhaps more accurately, it would mean coming back the next night to watch a performer of equivalent stature and getting $1500 in compensation. I guess the ruling does make some sense in comparing a death to an unexpected illness - in either case the crew member is unavailable (a little insensitive and heartless but, ok). The key factor is that it happened away from a crewbase. As J.O. says there is no possible way to have crews ready at every station and that's why the ruling unfair to the airline. In any case, I say airlines should just roll with it - pay the claims and add the cost to the ticket. The net effect is that every passenger on every flight pays and every once in a while someone wins "compensation" for a delay. It's being forced to participate in a lottery with every ticket purchased. Even worse is that it's not zero-sum. This means that on average each passenger will pay more than they receive

Some ideas are stupid and some ideas are really stupid. Here's one of the latter; https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airwheel-the-rideable-boarding-luggage-e-scotter#/

Sure but everyone is getting hit with inflation so what's the solution?

I don't think which union represents the employee groups has anything at all to do with what happened to pensions - it's the laws that make the difference. In the USA pensions are given much less protection in the event of financial problems at the company. Sustainable? The high price for jet fuel isn't sustainable but it just gets factored into the ticket price. Same thing for employee wages (pilot, FA and other). I read somewhere else that a 25% raise for the pilots equates to about $1/flight hour. So a Toronto Vancouver costs $305 vs $300. Of course this depends on the route, the aircraft, etc but the point is that even a huge (and probably unrealistic) wage increase has a small effect on ticket prices. With a more realistic increase of, say, 10% we're talking about pennies.

What the government, the passengers and Gabor don't realize (or do and won't admit) is that it's a zero sum game. Any compensation payout to one group of passengers is offset by a corresponding increase in ticket prices for all passengers. Or, to be honest, the payout will be lower than the increase in ticket price to allow for the overhead costs. The way I describe it is this: Now all passengers will be forced to buy what is essentially a lottery ticket. If they are lucky enough to have a flight disruption they win a big compensation cheque but if they are unlucky enough to have their flight go smoothly they lose the extra $20 added to their ticket. Do you feel lucky? Well, do you punk? I think the airlines should just roll with it. Figure out how much they would have paid last year if they had been under the new rules and add that amount, plus 50% to every ticket. Then, run ads saying, "We always pay compensation!" Pay compensation every time someone sneezes - just make sure it's covered by the "new" ticket price. Could be a real money-maker. Goes like the old adage - "when was the last time you ever saw an insurance company lose money?" Actually, that makes me think - I bet Lloyds of London would be happy to underwrite the whole thing.

I recently did a flight on Porter's new Embraer. Great service, comfortable, friendly staff and free booze for those inclined. The only thing to complain about was the gate location; Terminal 3 satellite. Between the numerous moving walkways (one of which didn't) and the 6 escalators (yes, really - six!) needed for the trip from the gate to groundside it's a long-distance trek.

Well, next thing you guys are going to tell me is that the Covid situation didn't happen 10 years ago! OK, ok, I was wrong. Felt like it's been more than a year, feels like the whole Ukraine thing has been going on for years too.

It's an old joke but still makes me laugh - The F4 is proof that, with big enough engines, you can make anything fly!

I'm positive that aircraft has been on the ground for more than a year as stated in the article. I think it's been there since Feb 2020, not Feb 2022. Lots of pilots, myself included, have made the statement back in 2020 that it should be confiscated and given to Ukranine - it only took the government 3 years to come to the same conclusion.

Very odd to be doing training exercises in the real world without proper oversight. There should be an instructor or supervisor who knows everyone involved and can quickly intervene. The report says the civilian was handcuffed for 45 minutes. I would imagine that the very first thing he would have said was, "I'm a Delta pilot on a layover and my RAIC is clipped to my shirt in the closet." Why was he handcuffed for 45 minutes? Obviously the trainees thought this was somehow part of the scenario and there was no-one on site to say, "Delta pilot on a layover? That's not part of the script. OK, everyone, stop, we have a problem." What I wonder about is how much the compensation payout will be? I'm betting on 6 figures at least.

Fascinating stories about crazy women? Sorry, got enough of my own - don't need to buy a book.

I figured they would be identified and fired from the video. Personally, I'd like to see them criminally charged with property damage and on the hook for repaying all damages.

Of course it would and it's exactly what we didn't do with the ships we're building. We could have bought French frigates ready to go off the shelf and completely NATO compatible and we'd have them already for about half the price we're going to pay.

Why buy a proven platform when we can hire some Liberal cronies to do consultations for 6 years to determine that it should really be a custom platform built in Quebec. In the end it cost 8X as much, be delayed for 17 years and won't be compatible with any NATO systems or hardware anyway.

Yup, just checked - 737-800.

Looks like a 737....

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought. So, it's not like Toronto where having the Island operation is a great savings in travel over going to Pearson for anyone downtown. I guess there might be some savings in time at the airport flying out of YHU vs YUL and, of course for anyone living on the south side of the river it would be a big savings in travel.

Is it easier to get to YHU than YUL from downtown?

Well, I read (and write) cursive but that is a very poor example. It's mostly just printed letters attached to each other; the s, r , t , f, l all incorrect as far as my grade 4 teacher would say.

I think it's generally understood that the colour green denotes sarcasm. You'd know that Kip if you got out and saw some more of the world! Haha!

Well, she couldn't go because she would need a RAIC to get into the bag room or out on the ramp. Unlikely that she'd give her phone to someone else or that someone else would accept responsibility for it if she did. The time it would take to patrol through all the possible locations hoping for a "ping" of the airtag would be excessive. The thing about these sorts of devices is that they are all extremely low power and use some combination of cell service, wifi, Bluetooth, GPS. I have had, at some time, problems with all of those communication protocols; don't connect when you know they should. Then add in the software, updates and the very real possibility that the signal is being shielded by some part of the terminal building or aircraft. It's a difficult situation but one thing I know for sure is that people are certainly not aware of the limitations believing that the location showing on their phone is 100% "where it is" when, in reality, its simply the last recorded/transmitted location.