oof, it’s bad when jr is shitting on your country
https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Roenick/status/1538670556345782272
Someone needs to hook him up with some Spirit Airlines tickets so that he knows what bad really is.
or american
Meh, Canadians complain about Air Canada all the time. It’s not like we have this deep personal pride about our highly subsidized, bailed out main airline.
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Lol Rogers
I would love to be hanging out with the Bell execs tonight, popping the $1,000 bottles of wine no doubt.
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Ya this is nuts. They are still out too.
I use Telus so no effect on me but this has to be biggest telecom outage ever.
Feels like it has to be a hack, no?
Been out all day for me, just got 3G connectivity back on my phone. Bonus was I’m still WFH and so got an unexpected day off.
Somehow my wife has data now, we are on the same plan. I’m hotspotting onto her data. No internet, phone calls for both, or data for me.
Any of you Canadabros care to explain this further?
Not a Canada guy but they may not be able to reply at the moment.
Rogers is the mobile carrier of nearly 11 million Canadians, with a stake in everything from hockey to cable television.
(hadn’t caught up with the thread so you may well have known the above already)
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Thanks. Looks like this isn’t the first time.
pretty much is the first time. About 9 months ago Rogers had their data and phones down, but internet was still available and so were emergency calls. Last time( the only time I remember it happening) all the services weren’t down like this time.
To call it a disaster, then, would be an understatement: for the airport, for workers, for the airlines, for the economy and especially for passengers. But for all the coverage, all the horror stories and carefully crafted PR excuses, the exact cause of all the chaos at Pearson has remained something of a mystery. The airlines and the airport have largely blamed the government, for keeping COVID restrictions in place and not having enough screening and customs staff. The federal minister of transportation at one point appeared to blame passengers who had forgotten how to move efficiently through airport security. Some analysts, meanwhile, have pinned the blame on global factors beyond Canada’s control.
What I found is that the dominant narrative around the problems at Pearson — that they’ve been caused primarily by federal COVID rules — is at best partly true, and at worst, some experts argue, not just false but deliberately so. In reality, those experts say, the number one reason why so many passengers have had so many problems flying in to and out of Pearson this year is that the airlines simply sold far more seats this spring and summer than either they or the airport had the staff to accommodate.
“The airlines have been very greedy, and you can quote me on that,” said John Gradek, a former Air Canada executive who now lectures in aviation management at McGill University.