Anyone travel to Mexico recently?

[BavarianBeast]

Oddly enough I’ve probably been on 10-15 sunwing flights to Mexico and only had 1 issue which was a 3 hour delay. Not a bad track record.

When we flew from Kelowna to Calgary over the Christmas holidays, our poor person airline Flair, was the only one that didn’t get cancelled and we made it back to Calgary while all other lines jerked their customers around for days.

I’m not saying the cheap airlines are great because they are all absolute shit here. I just always buy the cheapest one and hope for the best because I guess I’m a cheap ass!

[haggis88]

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I’m not saying the cheap airlines are great because they are all absolute shit here. I just always buy the cheapest one and hope for the best because I guess I’m a cheap ass!

Becoming a more common mentality and not just for cheap asses - mostly looking from the angle of "well I'm gonna be treated like shit anyway, so why pay more for it?"

I agree to an extent

[Misterman]

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Oddly enough I’ve probably been on 10-15 sunwing flights to Mexico and only had 1 issue which was a 3 hour delay. Not a bad track record.

When we flew from Kelowna to Calgary over the Christmas holidays, our poor person airline Flair, was the only one that didn’t get cancelled and we made it back to Calgary while all other lines jerked their customers around for days.

I’m not saying the cheap airlines are great because they are all absolute shit here. I just always buy the cheapest one and hope for the best because I guess I’m a cheap ass!

For me it's much less about the fact that shit happens. Because shit happens with every airline. With Sunwing it's more about how they handle it when shit does inevitably happen. When we got delayed for 3 hours leaving Cancun years ago, they gave us a 50$ food voucher. But then we got delayed again at 9pm, when everything in that airport closes. We were delayed until 5am. There is no water to drink anywhere, no food, parents with young kids that have run out of diapers, people who are smokers that are trapped inside and can't smoke. If they weren't going to send everyone back to a resort or hotel or whatever, the least they could do is have some airport rep bring in some bottled water, and usher people out to smoke and whatnot.

I was finally able to negotiate all these terms with the supposed Sunwing rep that finally showed up at 1am. But the passengers certainly didn't help at all, everyone was devolved into blathering idiots that just wanted to yell at the rep about how they would never fly Sunwing again. All said and done when we finally got out of there the next morning, they handed us a 75$ travel voucher with a one year expiry date.

I feel like WJ would've had us on another flight pretty quickly, or put us back to a hotel for the time being.

[03ozwhip]

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Clearing your cookies in between each search or using incognito mode I hope!

I feel like I'm missing something here. No I don't do that. Edit: I did do it and it's now 200 more pp lol. But what's the point of doing it?

[bjstare]

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For me it's much less about the fact that shit happens. Because shit happens with every airline. With Sunwing it's more about how they handle it when shit does inevitably happen. When we got delayed for 3 hours leaving Cancun years ago, they gave us a 50$ food voucher. But then we got delayed again at 9pm, when everything in that airport closes. We were delayed until 5am. There is no water to drink anywhere, no food, parents with young kids that have run out of diapers, people who are smokers that are trapped inside and can't smoke. If they weren't going to send everyone back to a resort or hotel or whatever, the least they could do is have some airport rep bring in some bottled water, and usher people out to smoke and whatnot.

I was finally able to negotiate all these terms with the supposed Sunwing rep that finally showed up at 1am. But the passengers certainly didn't help at all, everyone was devolved into blathering idiots that just wanted to yell at the rep about how they would never fly Sunwing again. All said and done when we finally got out of there the next morning, they handed us a 75$ travel voucher with a one year expiry date.

I feel like WJ would've had us on another flight pretty quickly, or put us back to a hotel for the time being.

tl;dr - things went exactly as expected when going to a third world country with a cut rate travel company

[Misterman]

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I feel like I'm missing something here. No I don't do that. Edit: I did do it and it's now 200 more pp lol. But what's the point of doing it?

There's an old boomer conspiracy floating around that the internet tracks what you're looking for, and then slowly starts raising the price every time you come back.

[jutes]

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There's an old boomer conspiracy floating around that the internet tracks what you're looking for, and then slowly starts raising the price every time you come back.

That’s false. Boomers don’t internet.

[Misterman]

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tl;dr - things went exactly as expected when going to a third world country with a cut rate travel company

No, not at all. What do you mean "cut rate"? Sunwing is normally about the same price as every other carrier.

[killramos]

lol it’s now controversial to call sunwing cut rate now?

I thought that was well established.

[ExtraSlow]

If you fly sunwing (from Calgary) and don't pay a cut rate fare, you are going on my ignore list.

[Misterman]

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lol it’s now controversial to call sunwing cut rate now?

I thought that was well established.

No. I was looking for clarification on what "Cut rate" means? They obviously operate as cheaply as they can, but their fares don't seem to be cut rate under normal circumstances. I've definitely never booked a Sunwing trip outside of this years, due to it's pricing. Or do people consider a 50$ price difference to be cut rate?

[killramos]

Sunwing is cheap and you get crap. There is my definition.

Yea it’s a race to the bottom with everyone in a very competitive market so it’s not like you can expect quarter price vacations. That doesn’t mean they aren’t cut rate.

Sunwing knows who they are. It’s their customers who are deluded.

[bjstare]

The last time I went to mexico was like 2009, and we went with sunwing. They had little crt tvs above every third or fourth row like most airlines had back in 1995. It was hilariously bad. That’s my only point of reference, and I’ve made an (apparently accurate) assumption that not much has changed.

[03ozwhip]

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The last time I went to mexico was like 2009, and we went with sunwing. They had little crt tvs above every third or fourth row like most airlines had back in 1995. It was hilariously bad. That’s my only point of reference, and I’ve made an (apparently accurate) assumption that not much has changed.

Ya well now they're better. You have ti download your own Netflix movies, so there!

[The_Penguin]

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We’re there now. WestJet flight on the 24th zero issues, aside from someone’s evil spawn coughing on me at the airport and giving me the plague (cold not Covid. I hope….) Coming back on the 31st, fingers crossed.

Made it back last night. Arrived alongside 3 flights from Mexico. No issues with luggage, was actually smoother than the L.A. trip in Aug.

[redline]

We flew WestJet right before Xmas , hour delay leaving Calgary , 2.5 hrs to get our bags in Cancun …

We were 20 mins from the Cancun airport and it took three hours to get to the air port … then 6 hr delay from WestJet on the way back …

[Misterman]

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We flew WestJet right before Xmas , hour delay leaving Calgary , 2.5 hrs to get our bags in Cancun …

We were 20 mins from the Cancun airport and it took three hours to get to the air port … then 6 hr delay from WestJet on the way back …

Was the delay getting to the airport due to the road construction? I've heard there is construction somewhere that's been randomly delaying travel times for certain people.

[redline]

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Was the delay getting to the airport due to the road construction? I've heard there is construction somewhere that's been randomly delaying travel times for certain people.

Yes the over pass that leads to the airport is being twined plus the main highway is expanding in that area. Total shit show, if going to Cancun plan your trip back to the airport accordingly. Good thing the plane was delayed cause we would have missed the flight with the traffic … lol

[jutes]

Getting spicy in Mexico around the western resorts. Shelter in place!

Pew pew.

[thinmyster]

We flew sunwing to cancun Dec 20 and returned the 27th. No delays leaving but we had a 5-6 hour delay coming home.

We flew home on a different carrier (larger plane cant remember the carrier) 3/3/3 which was probably just over 3/4 full.

Got lucky but worked out fine for us.