John Cairns’ News Watch - The outrageous Sunwing airline meltdown is the talk of Saskatchewan.
REGINA - Because the audience finds it so entertaining when they catch me in a bad mood, today I am going to talk about air travel in Canada.
Other Canadians were far less lucky, with cancelled flights and general mayhem. Airports across Canada became yet another massive paid political advertisement for Pierre Poilievre. “Canada is broken,” all right. But then another situation developed after the round of major winter storms that gripped most of North America in December, with the mass of flight cancellations at Canada’s airports. Flights out of Vancouver and Toronto were the hardest hit with those airports buried in snow. We heard stories of Canadian connecting travellers left stranded at Canadian airports for hours on end and even for days, without even the opportunity to stay in local hotels because those were booked up.
Passengers need to be looked after and put up in hotels, and alternative arrangements need to be found to get people home. There’s no excuse for stranding people in international locations. It's not like these places are remote desert islands! Cancun has a big international airport. Havana has a big international airport.
But here in Canada, we rarely demand better. We are all so polite, we believe in second chances and so on, and we put up with mediocrity in our whole freaking society with overcrowded health care, slap-on-the-wrist sentences for criminals, supply chain shortages, etc. Given that backdrop, our country's airlines must think they can get off scot-free.
What stings the most from a Saskatchewan perspective is that Sunwing ended up cancelling all of its flights from Saskatoon and Regina through Feb. 3.
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