The proportion of on-time departures out of Pearson at the mainline carrier, Rouge and Jazz hovered between 42 per cent and 51 per cent, versus roughly 60 per cent for both WestJet and Transat over the same two days. Air Transat registered between 60 per cent and 85 per cent throughout the long weekend.Īir Canada also fared worse on Thursday and Friday, before the storms struck. In contrast, WestJet hit 77 per cent nationwide and 72 per cent from Pearson.
On Monday, Air Canada, Rouge and Jazz flights notched on-time numbers of between 50 per cent and 54 per cent across the country, according to FlightAware, though the figure was lower at Toronto's Pearson airport. In that environment, it makes sense to rely on tight-packed schedules and fewer planes. particularly in long-haul international and commercial” travel - areas that Air Canada especially has depended on. Savanthi Syth, an analyst at Raymond James, said in a May 17 note to investors that flight demand is “still recovering. “We are the largest foreign carrier to the U.S., so issues there affect us disproportionately, and these can have knock-on effects to our entire system - for example, when an aircraft flying transborder is scheduled to operate domestically immediately after,” Fitzpatrick noted.Īir Canada has said it is fully staffed, with more employees than in the summer of 2019, despite running fewer flights. Thunderstorms in the Montreal area and the United States also caused a slew of problems over the weekend, he said. less flexibility, which can result in delays and slow recovery from unplanned events,” spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said in an email. “As with any system operating at capacity, slowdowns can occur and there is.
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So you automatically take these monstrous delays or you cancel.”Īir Canada said it may take longer to recover from a wrench in the gears when a network is running at full tilt. “If an airplane craps out, for whatever reason - mechanical things do happen - you've got to fix the airplane before you go. “There's a lot of people flying, planes are full, and there's there's very little operational reliability or operational backup,” Gradek said. Crowded flight schedules and crew shortages play a role in peak season, he said, since it's harder to find a spare plane or pilot to fill a gap when each aircraft is flying more.
Nonetheless, disruption figures have been trending upward over the past few weeks, said John Gradek, who teaches at McGill University's aviation management program. The air travel sector is now in the throes of its summer peak, with 600,000 customers boarding Air Canada planes between this past Friday and Monday, the company said. Posts and photos of snaking lines and bulging terminals at the main Toronto and Montreal airports popped up on social media over the past few days, as passengers vented their frustrations about late takeoffs and customer service in a throwback to scenes of post-pandemic airport chaos a year ago. They also mark an uptick from the previous weekend, despite an unexpected shortage of air traffic controllers at Nav Canada that snarled travel during that period. The 1,965 flight delays and cancellations - over 52 per cent of scheduled flights - stand in contrast to numbers from other Canadian carriers including WestJet, Air Transat and Flair Airlines, which registered lower flight disruption levels. Roughly half of all trips by the country's biggest airline - including its lower-cost Air Canada Rouge and regional partner Jazz Aviation - were disrupted Saturday through Monday, according to figures from tracking service FlightAware. MONTREAL - Air Canada delayed or cancelled nearly 2,000 flights over the Canada Day long weekend in a potential taste of more trouble ahead for passengers.
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