If only Canada’s largest and oldest airline could have predicted Canada’s annual high travel periods…
Maybe yet another cash infusion from the government will help them remember.
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.
Yes, they should just pay to have extra planes sitting in a hanger all year that they only take out for high travel periods /s
Maybe they shouldn’t sell tickets to seats on planes that don’t exist or aren’t in service.
That aside, many companies are now trying out the latest management craze… ‘Run to fail’… That is, running equipment until it fails (and fucks everything up) is cheaper than doing regular maintenance. They don’t care about the pressure and stress it puts on employees or customers, they just care that it saves a couple bucks.
Do you not understand that the supply (number of planes) is constant throughout the year, while the demand (number of fliers) fluctuates? If the supply enough planes for everyone to fly at peak times there’s going to be tooons of empty seats throughout the rest of the year. They’d then need to raise everyone’s ticket prices to pay for those extra empty planes, and people just aren’t willing to pay the extra price for the convenience.
So… what’s the news?
AC has gone to absolute shit. I fly internationally and pay extra to not fly with them due to past experiences. They still owe me thousands of dollars for “lost” luggage and hotel nights last year and I hope to never fly with those bozos ever again. AC management being shit is one thing, the way the agents treat passengers is another level of insult.
Air Canada ruined our vacation to Quebec last summer. Delayed 4 times then canceled the rebooked to Boston. Then canceled. Then a nightmare 3 hour queue for customer service just to give up and head back home. Can’t believe how unreliable and stressful the airlines have made travel.
Air Canada has been cancelling and delaying flights like crazy this year. Walking through the airports I can’t count the number of times I overheard “Never booking AC again”. Schedules changing ruins entire holidays or business trips…
And of course they don’t have to compensate for anything
Right? How is that not even fixed with consumer protection laws already??
