Air Canada’s Aeroplan program is great. So, too, their Signature Suite dining lounges in Vancouver and in Toronto. And I value their willingness to offer business class dining on-demand inflight.
On the other hand, the rest of the airline? Absolute mess.
- Last year they just couldn’t manage to fly their planes and the ‘technical issues’ continue.
- They were also one of the worst offenders during the pandemic, refusing to return customer money for cancelled flights.
That mess, though, almost saved the life of one of the passengers who perished on OceanGate’s Titan submersible. There’s always an aviation angle.
All of the expeditions began in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on the eastern edge of the North American continent, tucked deep into the claw of a narrow harbor.
The Dawoods flew to Toronto on June 14. A canceled flight to St. John’s gave them time to explore the city, but when the next day’s flight was delayed, they feared they would miss the Titanic trip completely.
“We were actually quite worried, like, oh my god, what if they cancel that flight as well?” Ms. Dawood said. “In hindsight, obviously, I wish they did.”
In every disaster, there’s always the story of someone who was supposed to be there too but fate intervened. In this case, Air Canada managed to operate a flight – by no means guaranteed! – and contributed to the demise of Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year old son Suleman.
(HT: Dan R.)
Air Canada “ contributed to the demise of Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year old son Suleman.”… are you serious? Connecting the dots between the operation of a flight with unrelated events and subsequent deaths. What about the controller who cleared the flight for takeoff? Is he a factor? What about the laborers who built the road to the airport 65 years ago, are they a contributing factor? This is pure fantasy and none sense.
They contributed to their own demise. How many times did they sign saying yes, I know I could die.
This is an incredible stretch.
As they used to say about the MD80, “That’s a stretch.”
Absolute garbage. Somebody’s flight operated so they died in an unrelated incident? This is low, even for this entertainment blog.
Anyone else see why journalists are seen to be less honorable than used car salesmen?
Wow. Just wow. Air Canada contributed to their demise? Are you freaking serious. What a dumb blog.
Air Canada is a disaster waiting to happen a few years ago they wanted to charge, $6000 each to fly us to Scotland for a funeral, as there were 4 of us going they wanted $24,000 to fly us to Scotland, I hope they go bust they are ripping people off left right and centre..
It was their bad luck that the Air Canada flight made it to St. John’s.
Since when did TMZ start posting here?
Journalism, even blog “journalism” has both feet in the gutter. “Almost” blaming Air Canada for not saving them is just pure sensationalism . . . especially when everyone knows it was Trump’s fault.
Well like I said before a preventable accident foolish pride and lack of brain’s by not following safety procedures and poor machinery killed them
Ha I love it, great article. Made me chuckle.
Honestly I feel like so bad as Air Canada is mentioned their name in anything good it’s the worst airline in the world they can’t even save their passenger for like damages or delays and what not they should not be abusing my country’s name in their airline so please the worst airline in the world they don’t know how to handle/operate an airline
And of course they were late in there attempt to save someone’s life.
Also please change your name to something else at least so that to AirIwedontcare airline or maybe 3rd class airline in the world.
Stop being so negative about our National carrier. After all they are the only ones who display the Canadian flag throughout the world in a proud fashion and beautiful aircrafts, in particular the Boing 787….!
While this may cause some disagreements, I will say it anyway. Journalists are trained professionals. Bloggers, as they often are, only in search of clicks, cutting and pasting as they go. Instead, Gary, take one less trip to the Maldives, and enroll in a journalism 101 class. Trust me, it will improve your credibility.
Just wanted to add some facts here;
Air Canada is is private company and not our national airline, largest airline in Canada.
Air Canada is not reflecting my country.
My feelings;
Air Canada airlines does not have what it takes to run an ailine. It is an embarrassment.
I really don’t want this airline to use my country’s name.
Please change it
This is one of the most shameful articles you have written. Whether one likes or dislikes American Airlines, trying to make a buck at the expense of the deceased and the airline is ludicrous. The same can be said of the Subway sandwich shop that also made light of this tragedy.
I meant to say Canadian! We hear so much about American…sorry American!
I meant to say Canadian! We hear so much about American…sorry American!
So Gary, you got beat up pretty bad over this insensitive article. I called BS on you yesterday when it was first posted, and you deleted my comment. Why, when you allowed all these others to call you out?
@PW commenters are welcome to criticize me, and I don’t delete criticisms of me, I am not sure what you said. If it was profanity-laden I’d have deleted it. Or it might have gotten caught in spam and never published for some reason, though I review comments in the moderation queue regularly.
@Gary Curious if you plan to apologize or account for your behavior in any way? This piece was in remarkably poor taste and I think you know it. Certainly many of your readers have let you know that.
You have aspirations of being some kind of mass media pundit, this is clear. Is this the kind of shallow, insensitive material that readers should expect of you or your ghostwriters, or have you learned something here and will do better?
@John, it struck me that with Air Canada’s operations continuing to melt down as I wrote this, some lives were almost saved because of that. Not everyone appreciated the observation and that’s fine. I do not have ghostwriters. I take responsibility for my content.