Despite the principle of principle concluded between the Canadian Public Service Syndicate (SCFP) which represents the approximately 10,000 Air Canada, the airline on Tuesday, the vice-president of the Quebec Travel Agents Association believes that Canadians taken abroad will have to take their pain in patience before being able to return to the country.
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“I expect another 3-4 days, easy, of disturbances still,” said the vice-president of the association of travel agents of Quebec, Éric Boissonneault, on the Mario Dumont show on LCN waves on Wednesday.
Despite the gradual recovery of thefts, the one who also owns a travel agency believes that there will be a delay of a few days before everything is back in order, depending on the destinations in which the Canadians have traveled.
“I think that for the Caribbean, for the people who go to the South, Cancún, Mexico, Cuba, I think that the return is fairly fast. I think it is already settled or almost in 95% of cases, ”he said.
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On the other hand, to return from Europe, it will be a more complex situation.
“On Europe, repositioning, destinations, is there no daily flights, this is a little more complicated,” he explained. […] I think it will take at least 7 days to recover: replace the devices, the pilots, the on -board agents on the destinations. ”
The vice-president, however, mentioned that he sees “a semblance of light” at the end of the tunnel since the announcement of the resumption of thefts.
He also greets the Air Canada initiative, which is now committed to repaying the replacement flights that its customers have owed or will have to book due to the strike.
“This morning, we still had a relatively good news, as long as I have 4-5 days too late, but they still said they were going to pay people’s costs to come back because the plane tickets were extremely expensive in the $ 3000-4000,” he added.
See the full interview with Eric Boissonneault above
