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
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.
JetBlue doesn’t overbook and they have similar load factors to the big US legacy carriers, so it’s clearly possible to not overbook