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Nearly 2,000 Air Canada flights delayed, cancelled over long weekend (ca.news.yahoo.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 47 points 3 years ago (2 children)

If only Canada’s largest and oldest airline could have predicted Canada’s annual high travel periods…

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe yet another cash infusion from the government will help them remember.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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