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08/17/25

Air Canada flights on, then off On Sunday afternoon, Air Canada said it was suspending its plan to resume limited flying by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge after striking flight attendants represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) defied the government’s back-to-work order. Instead, the airline says it now plans to resume →

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Air Canada braces for a strike

08/14/25

Your options if you have an Air Canada ticket Air Canada’s negotiations with CUPE, the union representing 10,000 flight attendants on Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, aren’t going well. And if no agreements can be made, a strike is expected to begin Saturday, August 16 at 01:00 ET. In preparation, the carrier began a →

Airlines

Travel Tidbits for a new week

05/08/24

Here are some travel tidbits from the Stuck at the Airport inbox to help you ease into the week, including music and travel advice, contests for travel adventures and, of course, airport news. Hello Kitty Day coming to Oracle Park EVA Air is teaming up with the San Francisco Giants to host Hello Kitty Day →

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Holiday Travel Tidbits

12/08/23

The Stuck at the Airport team was in Geneva, Switzerland this week for an education day with officials at the International Air Transport Association, IATA. Topics ranged from passenger rights and travel accessibility issues to earnings, sustainability, biometrics, safety, security, air cargo, and more. We’ll be folding what we learned into many of our stories →

Holidays

Holiday travel -by reindeer

12/12/19

Looking for an alternative way of getting where you need to go this time of year? Air Canada shared this sweet video about a young girl who meets up with a reindeer. →

Holidays

Travel Tidbits: Travel Ban + Air Canada

02/10/17

Travel tidbits: Trump's travel ban off (for now...), Air Canada new livery and getting ready for 24 hours at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. →

Fun, photo-rich timeline celebrates Air Canada’s 75th birthday

09/11/12

What do Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Louis Armstrong, Chubby Checker, Warren Beatty, Peter Fonda, Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope all have in common? They were all passengers on Air Canada or its predecessor, Trans Canada Air Lines (TCA), sometime during the past 75 years. As part of a slew of activities to mark its 75th →

Good, bad and just plain wacky air travel fees and amenities

05/22/09

Heading to the airport this holiday weekend? Check to make sure you’re up on the latest changes. Shoes out of the bin, buddy! Like what? Well, the TSA has decided that you still need to take off your shoes and send them through the X-ray machine, but now those shoes need to ride on the →

Travel tidbits: bikes & air passenger rights for travelers in Canada

05/05/09

As part of a growing eco-effort, guests staying at Fairmont Hotels across Canada will now be able to take advantage of a cool new amenity: complimentary use of BMW cruise bikes. The hotels even promise to keep some child-sized bikes in stock. Of course, they can’t have enough bikes for everyone, so priority will be →

Rights

One person – two seats – in two rows?

02/06/09

One of my recent Well Mannered Traveler columns on MSNBC.com discussed the “tush test” Canadian airlines are asking travelers to undergo in order to take advantage of that country’s One Person/One Fare laws. So Gregg at FlightsfromHell sent along a link to a story about a woman forced to purchase two airplane seats “for other →

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