Okay. I can get used to no food on flights or paying for food. I can get used to limited magazines on the flight, paying for alcohol, paying fuel surcharges, smaller seats and the other cost cutting things airlines or doing. In some cases, paying for meals actually makes sense since now it seems the food selections are better on short haul flights (I usually ride in business or first class anyways).
What I cannot understand is why Air Canada charged me two dollars for a blanket rental. Honestly, does it make that much of a difference? Can it even be rationalized given they are a public company and have to hire accountants to conduct blanket inventory and account for blanket revenues?
I am also pissed about this because the damn airplane was *really cold*. I had enough clothes on that I was NOT cold outside the airport in Vancouver, but got chilled during the flight. I initially resisted buying a blanket but gave in 3 hours into the flight. It seems however, I was too late; I seem to have picked up some sort of cold myself as a result. Feh!!!
If I get pissed off and don't use Air Canada for the next 6 months (statistically, that is about $30-40,000 worth of business from me alone), how many blankets do they have to sell to recoup that loss? I guess that is 20,000 blankets minus the costs of accounting for blankets (do they charge GST on domestic flights?). I am interested to know why and I am hereby inviting someone from Air Canada to comment on this blog and tell me why. In the meantime, I am not booking any new flights on Air Canada until I get an answer.
Add a comment if you join me in this boycott.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
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that sounds horrible -- I've just booked a first transatlantic flight with Air Canada to Toronto, usually travel BA so hope it isn't too bad.htt
ReplyDeletethey should then be forced to increase the baggage limit! With the pathetic amount of carry on luggage that yo are allowed these days you will have no choice but to rent from them.
ReplyDeleteI had a bad enough time when flying to the US from the UK 2 weeks ago. We did no have enough time to get money and on the domestic leg they sold the food. We only had £. Nothing we could do as they did not take cards or other currency. So 5 hours and we were stuck with nothing to eat.
Consider yourself lucky!
ReplyDeleteDown here in Australia one of our domestic carriers (Virgin Blue) doesn't even offer blankets! Too bad, too sad if you're freezing your arse off.
You just need to remember when travelling with these carriers to bring money (for food and beverages) and a jacket/blanket for when you get cold
This is really old news.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to have decided to sell disposable blankets and pillows at cost instead of paying some union of blanket cleaners to launder and repackage the non-disposable blankets.
It might be old news but it is still shitty. I am never flying with Air Canada.
ReplyDeleteMe neither - they can lick my hairy backside.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found strange last year when I flew AC from SF to Toronto and then Toronto to Dallas (on different days) was they gave me some headphones and then asked "do you want to keep them", when I said "no" they just lobbed them in the bin.
ReplyDeleteTo everyone who ever flies Biz Class across the Atlantic to the UK, never ever ever fly anything from North America, try Virgin or BA once and you'll never go back.
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