Anyone travel to Mexico recently?

[Misterman]

I know sunwing is shit, as experienced personally. But what's the story here that is specific to sunwing? Seemed like every carrier has been royally fucking people all across Canada this past week.

[jutes]

Seems to be a lack of crews.

[killramos]

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I know sunwing is shit, as experienced personally. But what's the story here that is specific to sunwing? Seemed like every carrier has been royally fucking people all across Canada this past week.

Becuase when the bottom falls out with sunwing, there is literally nothing below the surface.

[haggis88]

Surprised sunwing flights can even take off with all the peasants throwing rocks

[max_boost]

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I have no sympathy for people who travel over Christmas. That's just displaying poor judgement

While I agree that it’s not ideal,
Still tho it’s a terrible situation

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Surprised sunwing flights can even take off with all the peasants throwing rocks

Wins internet.

[mr2mike]

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Seems to be a lack of crews.

Don't put this on Terry!

[haggis88]

I have to go to Orlando on the 5th of Jan

RIP me again

[Clever]

I hope they figure stuff out by spring. We are looking to go to PV at the beginning of April, we’ve never been before and the Hyatt Ziva was recommended by a coworker but it seems far. I was originally looking at the Hard Rock but mixed reviews. Also, my daughter’s passport expires in June, anyone know if this is going to be an issue?

[ExtraSlow]

What is your airline?

[Clever]

WestJet most likely.

[Misterman]

I'll be on Sunwing Feb 4th to Cancun. I hate to even give them any business at this point, but they're virtually the only option out of Edmonton if you want any sort of halfway reasonable flight times. Westjet is my preference, but they didn't get in till like midnight, and they were an extra 3 grand for the trip. I have the mind to go buy some trip interruption insurance from a third party just in case.

[ExtraSlow]

It's a good point. WJ is the clear winner for anyone travelling from Calgary to a "Sun destination" but the options are more complicated from other Canadian cities.

[jutes]

I would 100% drive down to Calgary from Edmonton for a westjet direct flight. Avoid the Sunwing BS, even if it means spending a bit more. My best experiences were with Air Transat out of Edmonton, but they don’t fly south from western Canada anymore.

[gwill]

anyone know where to get info on destinations sunwing flies direct to from Calgary. I called sunwing and they told me to try and book 100 different options to figure it out myself. This info Is super easy to find for West jet and air canada.

Trying to pick a destination to fly direct either from edmonton or Calgary to avoid going through Toronto. Westjet from edmonton has 4 options and it's all Mexico. Westjet from Calgary has 6 options on top of all the Mexico options.

As much as sunwing may suck flying out of Toronto is worst regardless of the airline.

On a side note the prices for most resorts I've been considering are more expensive now then mid dec. Was waiting to see if they'd drop in price but no luck there.

[SJW]

I'm going to the Bahamas late January. I booked with west jet though. Hopefully this nonsense ends.

If i end up getting stuck for another week down there that's ok too.

[2Legit2Quit]

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anyone know where to get info on destinations sunwing flies direct to from Calgary. I called sunwing and they told me to try and book 100 different options to figure it out myself. This info Is super easy to find for West jet and air canada.

Trying to pick a destination to fly direct either from edmonton or Calgary to avoid going through Toronto. Westjet from edmonton has 4 options and it's all Mexico. Westjet from Calgary has 6 options on top of all the Mexico options.

As much as sunwing may suck flying out of Toronto is worst regardless of the airline.

On a side note the prices for most resorts I've been considering are more expensive now then mid dec. Was waiting to see if they'd drop in price but no luck there.

This spreadsheet from the yycdeals outlines all the direct flight options and airlines.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...htmlview#gid=0

Also there's additional tabs for different departure cities to show their direct flight options.

[lasimmon]

nvm beat by 2legit

[gwill]

amazing. Thanks for the link.

[Misterman]

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I would 100% drive down to Calgary from Edmonton for a westjet direct flight. Avoid the Sunwing BS, even if it means spending a bit more. My best experiences were with Air Transat out of Edmonton, but they don’t fly south from western Canada anymore.

We did the transfer through Calgary last year, definitely have zero interest to do that again. Sick 1 year old crying for an hour and a half as we sat on the tarmac waiting for de-icing. And to add insult to injury, Westjet changed our plane from the Dreamliner, which was the main reason I even went through the hassle of dealing with Calgary at all.

We've flown Sunwing at least 4 times I think. Only had one issue(other than the rude awakening the first time that their baggage allowance is 2 kilos lower than every other airline on earth). Issues happen, but the way they dealt with it, leaving us stranded in CUN for 14 hours, is my only hesitation about using them any more. They're cheap and will do whatever they can to avoid coughing up for another night.

Now we have the Passenger Bill of Rights, so at least there is some retribution if shit goes sideways. But I'm not poor, so if we get stranded this time I'll just book the closest resort to the airport on Expedia and go stay there as long as we need to. But seeing that Westjet has been stranding people in CUN as well, it doesn't seem like you're safe with any carrier in the case of a weather event, just have to deal with it as it comes.