Originally Posted by
Maxx Mazda
Canadian north does have older equipment, yes, but northern flying is northern flying. Weather plays a HUGE role in delays. Because they’re a small airline, if your inbound aircraft is delayed from any of its 5 previous legs, they can’t just pull together a spare airplane and crew to mitigate the delay like a large airline can.
As for the windshield, usually if it’s just the outer pane that’s cracked, it’s not part of the pressure vessel and you’re allowed to operate it ONE leg with the broken pane. One leg only. Guessing they only had a replacement windshield (which are like $30,000 btw) in Calgary and not Edmonton.