MONTREAL — Air Canada delayed or cancelled nearly 2,000 flights over the Canada Day long weekend in a potential taste of more trouble ahead for passengers. Roughly half of all trips by the country's biggest airline — including its lower-cost Air Canada Rouge and regional partner Jazz Aviation — were disrupted Saturday through Monday, according to figures from tracking service FlightAware. The 1,965 flight delays and cancellations — over 52 per cent of scheduled flights — stand in contrast to num
  • Mrmcmisterson@slightlyawesome.ninja
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    1 年前

    Airlines are getting so unreliable. Flair airlines kept passengers on the tarmac for 10 hours with no food and water onboard the other day as well.

    Corporations has lost focus, while the idea is that you are supposed to bring in money all the time, you also should want customers to be happy with your product so you have repeat customers.

    • grte@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 年前

      Maybe yet another cash infusion from the government will help them remember.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 年前

        The privatization of Air Canada was a mistake

        In fact, the privatization of most Canadian crown corporations was a mistake

        From a government perspective, connecting remote areas has economic advantages through improved trade, better access to services, and eventually increased economic growth/more tax revenue. For private corporations, none of these advantages materialize.

        That’s why China is able to afford a trillion dollars of debt to build HSR when nobody else can: it allows them to push economic growth away from tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou) and towards tier 2 and tier 3 cities.