YYC Airport delays update?

[littledan]

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My flight to GP only boarded 1.5 hours late and with no heat at boarding today.

Fucking Westjet.

I've flown Q400 like 1-million times+10 over the years in winter. Never had a problem with cold planes delaying takeoffs/boarding until this year. I think its Westjet penny pinching and not paying the pilots to be there early enough to warm up the planes properly. But I have no inside info. just speculation.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

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I've flown Q400 like 1-million times+10 over the years in winter. Never had a problem with cold planes delaying takeoffs/boarding until this year. I think its Westjet penny pinching and not paying the pilots to be there early enough to warm up the planes properly. But I have no inside info. just speculation.

Yeah it was a new Gen Q400. -10 wasn’t even really that cold but it really fucked up my day.

[jutes]

Major Canadian airports need drive-in parking, at least for the puddle jumpers that are too small for gates.

[killramos]

The answer. As always…

[jutes]

Don’t fly on Quebec made aircraft?

[killramos]

That goes without saying

[Maxx Mazda]

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I've flown Q400 like 1-million times+10 over the years in winter. Never had a problem with cold planes delaying takeoffs/boarding until this year. I think its Westjet penny pinching and not paying the pilots to be there early enough to warm up the planes properly. But I have no inside info. just speculation.

They can heat the plane without pilots. There is an external air cart that can be plugged into the aircraft. All aircraft have the same receptacle, from Q400 to 747. It's the big bendy yellow hose. WestJet contracted out their ground handling a few years ago to ATS, and they are the worst company in the entire industry (but cheapest) so it doesn't surprise me that they probably had no heater hooked up.

[Tik-Tok]

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They can heat the plane without pilots. There is an external air cart that can be plugged into the aircraft. All aircraft have the same receptacle, from Q400 to 747. It's the big bendy yellow hose. WestJet contracted out their ground handling a few years ago to ATS, and they are the worst company in the entire industry (but cheapest) so it doesn't surprise me that they probably had no heater hooked up.

Westjet went back to their own ground crews in YYC recently, but they have no people so the end result is worse service than ATS.

[Maxx Mazda]

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Westjet went back to their own ground crews in YYC recently, but they have no people so the end result is worse service than ATS.

I believe WJ just hired a limited number of baggage connection runners, less than 40 staff. The ground handling / loading is still done by ATS.

[killramos]

My bags were unloaded by ATS employees yesterday from a WestJet flight.

They also arrived at the carousel 9 minutes after we got to our gate.

So I guess everyone is some level of idiot.

[shakalaka]

If 2 people are traveling together and one has a Nexus and the other doesn't, can both go from the Nexus side or how does that work?

[bjstare]

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If 2 people are traveling together and one has a Nexus and the other doesn't, can both go from the Nexus side or how does that work?

No.

[killramos]

You can never bring someone into the nexus line with you. No exceptions. Seriously none. No “buts”. No one. Never.

Pretty sure this the first line on your acceptance letter.

[mr2mike]

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If 2 people are traveling together and one has a Nexus and the other doesn't, can both go from the Nexus side or how does that work?

You get to play the entitled prick or wait with the rest of the plebs.
You choose your adventure.

[killramos]

I travelled with a buddy once who didn’t have nexus. We landed at the escalator within 5 minutes of each other.

My nexus is currently near useless because I’m often travelling with my kiddo who doesn’t have it. Pre check is nice though, they usually toss it on everyone’s boarding pass if even 1 member of the booking has it. Only helpful inside the US imo, where you don’t have to do the shoe and laptop dance.

[mr2mike]

Shoe bombs still a thing with people walking around with large battery banks?

[killramos]

Only in Murica

[tonytiger55]

I flew out Christmas eve and came back late Thursday afternoon. No real issues at all.
Canadian security is a bit more zealous and Murcia than Heathrow. I did not have to go through the scanner or take shoes off at Heathrow, they just waved me through.

[mr2mike]

Your privilege is showing.

[haggis88]

Orlando was a shitshow, baggage carousel screen didn't show correct number so everyone on the flight waited at the wrong place for like 30 mins before a steward redirected folks

Then oversized baggage came out on the normal carousel, which normally wouldn't be a problem but it was on the complete other side of the airport and you couldn't visibly see it

That's not on YYC though, the word oversized means something different in the Floridian dictionary