NationStates Jolt Archive

Linky (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5301172.stm?ls) :D

this had me laughing, imagine what the passengers thaught when the crew started to dismantle part of the plane in flight and the captain banging on a door to the cockpit shouting "lemmie in, lemmie in"

That cheeered me up :D

Schoolboy error-tastic!

Another reason not to fly Air Canada: the food majorly sucks.

I would fly Air Canada ;)

I would fly Air Canada ;)

pretty cabin crew?

Flew from Baltimore to Toronto once, on Air Canada.

A Saab turboprop.

For most of the flight, the left engine kept sputtering and threatening to stop (the blades were really, really slow a few times). A continuous stream of oil was coming from the engine over the top of the wing, and the pilot kept assuring us that everything was ok, as he could probably still get to Toronto on one engine.

I never flew Air Canada again.

I've flown Air Canada from Frankfurt, Germany to Detroit, Michigan 5 round trips. The only problem I ever had was my flight from Frankfurt landed at my connection in Montréal about 30 mins before my flight was supposed to leave. The line for us furriners at immigration was extremely long, and after about 5 minutes of watching it crawl this fat Austrian businessman and I (he was also going to Detroit) went up to the front of the line and the people up there let us through. We ended up sprinting across the airport and got to the plane just before they closed the door.

Other than that I never had a single problem.

Linky (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5301172.stm?ls) :D

this had me laughing, imagine what the passengers thaught when the crew started to dismantle part of the plane in flight and the captain banging on a door to the cockpit shouting "lemmie in, lemmie in"

That cheeered me up :D

LOL! AirCanada are fine to fly with I have even gotten mid flight ice cream (ohh ahhhh)

I thought all aircraft had to have inpregnable cockpit doors in the wake of 11/9? Am I the only one worried by the fact you can get into the cockpit from the outside fairly easily?

Unfortunately, with fuel prices continuing to rise, airlines will continue to cut as many corners as they feel they can get away with until some major disaster happens. After that disaster, I predict (like I'm some kind of f**kin' oracle...) that air travel will return to its roots as a convenience only the wealthy can afford. I don't think they've invented a Pratt & Whitney or Rolls Royce jet engine that can run on hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel or solar power, and I'm pretty sure it's impossible.

And they don't let you bring your pets out with you.

I fly Air Canada all the time. Bear in mind though, that Air Canada Jazz is the budget regional carrier, which uses different planes than Air Canada.

I thought all aircraft had to have inpregnable cockpit doors in the wake of 11/9? Am I the only one worried by the fact you can get into the cockpit from the outside fairly easily?
LOL, why reinforce cockpit doors to the point where that method of terrorism can be eliminated 100% when you can search granny's bag for knitting needles and hopefully reduce the probability of it happening too often...?

After all reinforcing cockpit doors does not increase paranoia in or control over the populice, why bother with that?:confused:

Hah, you want a real adventure? Try flying in one of Cuba's retrofit bomber airliners. They rattle more than a rattlesnake in a push popper.