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[–] [email protected] 89 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All of the staff involved belong on the no-fly list. Fucking biohazard. That's gotta be breaking a few laws.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The manager 2 or 3 levels above the staff needs to be taking the heat. The folks who make the decisions and metrics that induce this kind of behavior.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Air Canada is the worst company. Avoid it even if it means extra cost. I'm dead serious they really suck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What do you even fly if you're in Canada, then? I've heard WestJet took a turn downward a few years back.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Have you tried just being a goose?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Username checks out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

If it's less than a 20 hour drive I'm not flying

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Transat is pretty good but yeah, Air Canada is sometimes the only option.sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Porter has been expanding recently and is excellent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Flair!

I'm not even kidding, I prefer it to the majors. Not for everyone though lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did Flair and it was fine - after Swoop wanted to "rebook" a flight within a week of when it was supposed to leave to like the week after I was supposed to return.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I like(d) Swoop too though lol.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

LOL WTF, I would not want to sit there as well, eh. Shame on you, Air Canada

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Air Canada has apologised after kicking two passengers off a flight for refusing to sit in vomit-smeared seats.

Susan Benson, who was on the Las Vegas-Montreal service, said the pilot warned the passengers they would be put on a no-fly list if they kept complaining.

She added that staff had tried to cover "a bit of a foul smell" with perfume and coffee grounds.

"We didn't know at first what the problem was," Ms Benson posted on Facebook of the flight late last month.

The passengers were told "they could leave the plane… and organise flights on their own dime, or they would be escorted off by security and placed on a no-fly list!"

Air Canada said it was "reviewing this serious matter" and that "operating procedures were not followed correctly in this instance".


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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You should edit your title to correct "petfume" to perfume.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh sorry I forgot Canada was on Mars

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Air Canada is the main international carrier for Canada.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Reporting on nonsense like this on a slow news day is better than just making shit up like some other 24 hour "News" outlets though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Nowhere as bad as the Americans having a "politics" lemmy that only allows US politics

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On the English-speaking internet, North America = the world.

Neva4get

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you will find that it only includes half of north America (604,155,369 total population https://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/north-america-population vs the 334,233,854 of the contry you likely mean.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

North America is the term generally used for the US and Canada, where I'm from anyway, so I'm not sure what you mean. I do enjoy all the downvotes from the Americans whose exceptionalism is being offended by my pointing it out though, keep it coming chumps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Don't forget Mexico, Greenland, or the entire Caribbean.