I had a flight cancelled two weeks ago for this same reason. Didn’t realize that was their tactic, and my plane was probably fine. Fuckers.
Thr APPR rationale doesn’t even have to make grammatical sense. This is Air Canada’s run-on sentence complete with a missing oxford comma, and an unexpected paragraph break mid-sentence.
"Upon review of your reservation, we are unable to approve your claim for compensation as the most significant reason for your flight disruption was due to flight crew member availability related to sickness, flight time limitations, valid visa, health documents not at a crew base
and was required for safety purposes."
On top of that, we had to pay for our luggage twice on the flight down and every time we tried to get compensation from one “partner” airline, they point us at the other.
If true then compensation should be trebled.
If they’re cancelling flights for maintenance reasons, that suggests they aren’t doing the regular scheduled maintenance they’re supposed to be doing.
That alone is reason not to fly with them.
They’re willing to lie and tell everyone that they didn’t bother maintaining their planes. Not the lie I’d go with as a company flying these things just to get out of less profitable flights.
In rural areas, Air Canada will cancel the 2 morning flights so that they can send a full flight in the evening. Too many missed connections
I’ve been on a few rural flights in Northern Ontario. I can totally see why they’d cancel low population flights. I imagine fuel consumption at cruising speed is reasonable, but takeoff and landing cannot be fuel efficient, and those flights last like 30mins. It’s likely not even actually worth the fuel cost, but a requirement put on them by our Govt (as they should, obviously).
Be pretty interested to see the profitablity break down for those flights.
