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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago

All of the staff involved belong on the no-fly list. Fucking biohazard. That's gotta be breaking a few laws.

[-] PenIsland@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

The manager 2 or 3 levels above the staff needs to be taking the heat. The folks who make the decisions and metrics that induce this kind of behavior.

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

Air Canada is the worst company. Avoid it even if it means extra cost. I'm dead serious they really suck.

[-] skybox@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

What do you even fly if you're in Canada, then? I've heard WestJet took a turn downward a few years back.

[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you tried just being a goose?

[-] Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

If it's less than a 20 hour drive I'm not flying

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Transat is pretty good but yeah, Air Canada is sometimes the only option.sucks.

[-] Miyo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Porter has been expanding recently and is excellent

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Flair!

I'm not even kidding, I prefer it to the majors. Not for everyone though lol.

[-] Quentinp@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Did Flair and it was fine - after Swoop wanted to "rebook" a flight within a week of when it was supposed to leave to like the week after I was supposed to return.

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I like(d) Swoop too though lol.

[-] MaxPower@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago

LOL WTF, I would not want to sit there as well, eh. Shame on you, Air Canada

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 20 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Air Canada has apologised after kicking two passengers off a flight for refusing to sit in vomit-smeared seats.

Susan Benson, who was on the Las Vegas-Montreal service, said the pilot warned the passengers they would be put on a no-fly list if they kept complaining.

She added that staff had tried to cover "a bit of a foul smell" with perfume and coffee grounds.

"We didn't know at first what the problem was," Ms Benson posted on Facebook of the flight late last month.

The passengers were told "they could leave the plane… and organise flights on their own dime, or they would be escorted off by security and placed on a no-fly list!"

Air Canada said it was "reviewing this serious matter" and that "operating procedures were not followed correctly in this instance".


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[-] _s10e@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago
[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You should edit your title to correct "petfume" to perfume.

[-] dethleffs@feddit.nl -4 points 1 year ago
[-] 4am@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago

Oh sorry I forgot Canada was on Mars

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Air Canada is the main international carrier for Canada.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Reporting on nonsense like this on a slow news day is better than just making shit up like some other 24 hour "News" outlets though.

[-] Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Nowhere as bad as the Americans having a "politics" lemmy that only allows US politics

[-] Arrakis@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

On the English-speaking internet, North America = the world.

Neva4get

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

I think you will find that it only includes half of north America (604,155,369 total population https://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/north-america-population vs the 334,233,854 of the contry you likely mean.)

[-] Arrakis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

North America is the term generally used for the US and Canada, where I'm from anyway, so I'm not sure what you mean. I do enjoy all the downvotes from the Americans whose exceptionalism is being offended by my pointing it out though, keep it coming chumps!

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Mexico, Greenland, or the entire Caribbean.

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