Air Canada strike: grumbling and confusion at the airport

Hundreds of travelers with slaughtered mines were preparing to wait several hours in the hope of obtaining a solution to a flight canceled in a long line in front of the Air Canada kiosk at Dorval airport on Friday. Among them:

No show Sunday?

Four musicians began to pester in Spanish, discovering that Air Canada was going to offer them anything to leave Montreal for several days.

“We have a concert in Mexico City on Sunday and we will have to reimburse the producer and the room if we do not show up,” deplores Sara Curruchich, a Guatemalan singer returning from a Quebec tour. She came from Gaspé on Friday.

“It could cost us dearly by preventing us from honoring contracts,” worries the artist.

Lost family

A couple with a overwhelmed air waved on the phone while waiting to know how he was going to return home after their flight was canceled.

“We arrive from Germany, our correspondence to Moncton is canceled … and no one helps us, everyone returns the ball,” Rage David Ulrich.

With his wife Iulia, his son Leo, 12, and his daughter Ida, 10, he is afraid of having to resign himself to renting a car and driving 10 hours to reach the destination.

“It’s been 12 hours since I don’t sleep, so driving 10 hours is not a good idea,” says Ulrich.

Separate couple

A French couple was preparing to separate … momentarily.

Niels Ulrich has a ticket for an unmanned flight to Paris. But her girlfriend of Johe Kouadio, she does not know when she can leave.

“Niels will take her plane and, I will go to a friend in Montreal while waiting for,” resign himself the French national.

Collateral

In front of the Lufthansa kiosk, Yoan and Camille were waiting with their children, Juliette, 14, and Victor, 10 years old …

“We bought with Lufthansa, but it is operated by Air Canada … So our flight to Toulouse is canceled,” explains the one who prefers not to give her family name.

“On the phone, we were told to come in person because the Lufthansa representatives have more options … So we cross our fingers!” Yoan breath.

“I try to stay Zen, but it’s very difficult,” confesses Terry Kuny, an Ottawa resident who learned the cancellation of his flight to Athens in his bus to Montreal the same morning.

“My wife is already there and she is waiting for me,” adds the one who says he is ready for any alternative journey to get to their destination.

“I don’t believe it too much, but I go to see a representative because I don’t see anything better to do to try to have service,” sighs Rafael Arenas, who had to go on vacation to Mexico.

“It is too late to be reimbursed in hotel nights …”, deplores Mr. Arenas.

“Youppi!” Thank you for the good news! ” Exclaims Jessica MoChico when I teach her that she is not in the right line …

“I thought it was to pass security,” says the one who is about to return to Paris and who was wasting her time among the hundreds of people with canceled flights.

M^me MoChico was the fourth person I detrimented by informing him that she was in mistake in the endless queue …