YYC Airport delays update?

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Haven't been to one yet that doesn't have kiosks...

I only go to priority check in to get my magic bag tags

I assume it's rare, but Charlottetown doesn't and it's technically even an International Airport.

[killramos]

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What does the security line have to do with their baggage? Bags go down the conveyor and are screened separate from the passengers. Seems strange that the agent (no matter how useless) would try to deny someone from checking in.

This is why you stick to online check-in, and use a self serve kiosk to print your baggage tags. Avoid the ineptitude of the middleman completely.

While I generally agree with avoiding interaction with as many air Canada personnel as possible.

When you fly with an infant unfortunately none of that shit is an option.

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I assume it's rare, but Charlottetown doesn't and it's technically even an International Airport.

This was in Halifax. So close enough.

[Maxx Mazda]

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While I generally agree with avoiding interaction with as many air Canada personnel as possible.

When you fly with an infant unfortunately none of that shit is an option.

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This was in Halifax. So close enough.

I don’t get it. You hate Air Canada, (who doesn’t?) but you continue to book with them time and time again. Why not just stick to another carrier if they’re so terrible? Unless Air Canada was $12 cheaper on the round trip, in which case the Marth checks out.

[killramos]

All airlines are garbage. Duh

If you thought this was some kind of preference game you were clearly not understanding my disdain.

Plus Westjets business class is laughable unless you are on a 787, which they don’t drag out to Halifax often.

[haggis88]

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I assume it's rare, but Charlottetown doesn't and it's technically even an International Airport.

Charlottetown did at one point, i remember because i went to use it (singular) and it printed me out blank labels and they had no toner left to fill it up...i thought this was in keeping with being transported back to 1986 when i stepped off the plane from Toronto, i had a good laugh

This was 2015 of course, so maybe the locals removed it and burned it at the stake for performing witchcraft or something

[Gainsbarre]

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Charlottetown did at one point, i remember because i went to use it (singular) and it printed me out blank labels and they had no toner left to fill it up...i thought this was in keeping with being transported back to 1986 when i stepped off the plane from Toronto, i had a good laugh

This was 2015 of course, so maybe the locals removed it and burned it at the stake for performing witchcraft or something

Didn't see kiosks for Air Canada at Charlottetown airport 2 months ago. To me the bigger check-in pain for these smaller airports is when they don't have a conveyor belt behind the check-in counter to accept your checked luggage - after tagging you have to lug it on your own to a separate screening checkpoint. Had to do the same thing in Saint John in April, though I suppose this is standard everywhere for oversized checked luggage (e.g. YYC).

As for Air Canada staff - yeah, I've dealt with a few over the years. I've often been questioned if I'm in the correct line for check-in, so I just leave my old tags (with the big orange "PRIORITY") sticker on to try and avoid this problem. One of my favourites was in 2015 when I presented my British passport at the gate in YYZ to board an Air Canada flight to Istanbul (at the time it was 10 GBP for a Turkish visa upon arrival in a British Passport, versus $60 US for a visa in a Canadian passport) and the lady (ground staff, not CBSA) asked me if I was in Canada legally - I pointed out that the passport listed my place of birth as "CALGARY" and that yeah, it's Calgary Alberta, not Calgary Scotland...

[Mostwanted]

Does this affect any international travel? I have a trip to Maldives in October and will have to go YYC>YYZ>LHR (Heathrow) > Sri Lanka Airport?
I havent bought airline tickets yet, and was thinking of buying the flight insurance just in case.

[redblack]

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Does this affect any international travel? I have a trip to Maldives in October and will have to go YYC>YYZ>LHR (Heathrow) > Sri Lanka Airport?
I havent bought airline tickets yet, and was thinking of buying the flight insurance just in case.

Try to get a direct flight to LHR, YYZ is a shit show and you’ll definitely miss your connection.

[Mostwanted]

Yeah just double checked the flight itinerary, looks to be YYC to LHR direct.

[g-m]

AC flight home from LHR went super smooth, bags in like 5 minutes

[Team_Mclaren]

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Does this affect any international travel? I have a trip to Maldives in October and will have to go YYC>YYZ>LHR (Heathrow) > Sri Lanka Airport?
I havent bought airline tickets yet, and was thinking of buying the flight insurance just in case.

Isnt that the long way out. Why not go yyc-yvr-sin-mle.

I mean.... Its still shitty, but I figure skipping Sri Lanka is probably a good deal right now?

[cet]

I'm flying a bunch in the next few weeks so keeping my fingers crossed that I don't get screwed too badly

[Mostwanted]

I've been watching the flights on google flight and all of them go across Europe somehow, haven't seen one that goes through YVR or SIN.

[jutes]

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Does this affect any international travel? I have a trip to Maldives in October and will have to go YYC>YYZ>LHR (Heathrow) > Sri Lanka Airport?
I havent bought airline tickets yet, and was thinking of buying the flight insurance just in case.

When I did the Maldives i flew through Qatar, but that was 2015. Would avoid Sri Lanka lol.

[rage2]

We were delayed 2h on departure due to a plane swap leaving YYZ, but otherwise smooth sailing. No ground crew issues with YYC either, got to gate immediately and deplaned.

Talking to family in the business, guess we’re just lucky. Still a lot of random flight cancellations, which fucks everyone over. That’s the bigger problem.

[flipstah]

No issues flying YYC-SFO and back.

Got delayed at SFO and NEXUS paid off a lot at SFO.

[haggis88]

My parents are booked up to come out here in October

GLA-AMS-YYZ-YYC

Yyz-yyc leg got cancelled already and they weren't informed lol...at least there's plenty of time and options to rebook...o ly problem is that they're flying KLM GLA-AMS-YYZ and then KLM have booked them the westjet flight to YYC

Acronym salad

[G]

Cool story time.

We booked flights to Orlando back in July. Come day of the flight was cancelled and rescheduled 10 hours later. Lucky we were still at home when the email came in so didn't really inconvenience us except for losing a night at the AirB&B.

On the way back we had a layover in Toronto in which the flight from Toronto to Calgary was cancelled and rescheduled 7 hours later.

Both times we filed a claim at https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/interr...nsation-claims for the four of us.

Not really expecting any compensation but it made us feel better especially when Air Canada announced they are not compensating for any of their cancelled flights.

But surprisingly last Friday we got 8 emails in total from WJ stating that we will be compensated $1000 for the trip to Orlando and $700 for the trip from Toronto to Calgary.

Today we received $6800 (not WJ dollars).

This is pretty amazing since we only paid $1100 for all for tickets after using vouchers and WJ dollars.

[ExtraSlow]

You win sir.

[haggis88]

WJ customer service has been fairly good for me over the last year or so, the priority number for the gold status is awesome when they answer the phone in less than 15 mins compared to some of the times I have read