At the beginning of the pandemic, Jordan Peterson wrote about the dangers of monkeying with complex systems that are a critical linchpin in the economy. Thanks to the prevalence of the idiotic notion that the economy can be paused just like a DVD player, we are now faced with a serious breakdown in our economic infrastructure.
Oksana Klausmann had booked a trip from Toronto to New York City for late June and says…she and her daughter went through customs only to discover that they were not on the flight manifest, despite having their boarding passes.
From there, she says they were taken to a small room packed with other families….
She described the room as not having enough seats for everyone, forcing some to sit on the floor, and one small washroom with no soap, toilet paper or paper towels.
Several hours later, they received an email saying their flight was cancelled. An agent then arrived with a pair of police officers confirming the situation.
“What happened next should never happen to my daughter and me. Riot, angry people, screaming, yelling, pushing, and a lot more,” she said. “It was unsafe, scary, violent, and hostile. I took my daughter and we tried to leave the room filled with more than 200 or 300 angry people.”
I’m not surprised. This is from a liberal federal gov that can’t even make a profit on pot that they legalized.
You know a place where this shite isn’t happening?
Moscow.
LOL, that’s funny.
This sort of garbage is precisely why we’re not planning on traveling anytime soon, even if Adolf Castreau and his illegitimate regime lift the last fake vaxx mandates. Air travel is stressful enough when the system isn’t broken. And we used to visit the Caribbean three times a year before China unleashed its biowarfare assault. Mind you, with all the money we saved, we’re paying cash for a new fossil fuel burning SUV due for delivery in 8 weeks.
If you are rich , private charter is the way to go.
It is silly expensive but who cares when you have the money to burn.
It’s still cheaper than buying your own plane and the headaches that go along with that unless you truly love flying for the pleasure.
What I remember as a youth.
Always rent a boat , plane or woman , in the end it’s cheaper with less problems.
IF it so happens that I must travel by air, I will be driving to Buffalo and flying from there. Hell will freeze over before I fly out of Toronto except at gunpoint.
That said, given a choice I will be driving the whole way. The thought of putting myself in the hands of government transport minions and the airlines curdles my liver.
Imagine Thucydides, if you had never spent all that money on those vacations? When I look back over my life, and realise how much I wasted on booze, girls, travelling aimlessly, and pointless purchases of Chinese-made junk, … I’d be a ton richer, paying cash for everything.
You know, we can’t blame the banks or politicians for the debt crisis we are now in. We, and our profligate habits, were a big reason they took that road. If we never borrowed, they couldn’t lend!
I too have absolutely slashed the family budget. Food and essentials. Been that way for us ever since the Coof. Paid down some debt, figured out how to raise a family on one income. Launched my side hustle.
Now in the process of emigrating. Sigh.
None of this bs needed to happen. But over-credentialed underskilled bureaucrats with dreams of landing the big consulting gig one day, coupled with weak, significantly non-STEM trained politicians, is a deadly combination.
I have seen the future, and it is not in the West anymore.
There are some people that won’t quit the West just yet.
I wouldn’t mind working for Elon in his Spacex Ventures, that is some exciting stuff to keep the juices flowing.
I not quite the rocket engineer but I sure as hell can build them along with the infrastructure to service them.
Whether he can keep it up before THEY bring the roof down on his head is debatable, still it would be one heck of a ride.
This is all intentional.
This is part of the plan, to reduce the travel for the “little people”
Slow or prevent their mobility.
I repeat,,, this is intentional.
I would agree that an intentional travel reduction does match The Great Reset. The only problem I have is that I don’t think the people in charge of the airport are smart enough to do it deliberately.
Much more likely, this is the result of the same tsunami of people leaving sh*t jobs that is killing the restaurant industry. All those baggage-smashers and airline minions QUIT, because working at that airport is a nightmare. Now they can’t find anyone to do those jobs for the money they’re offering. Oops.
Someplace else suffering is the airplane mechanics and airframe industry. All the old-timers quit because of the WuFlu. Retired. The whole industry was running on the backs of those over-55 geezers. Now they are -gone-. Sayonara, baby. They will not be coming back to bust their knuckles again at the wages on offer after two years of retirement.
Put all that together, you get Toronto airport. Did the appalling retards who imposed Total Lockdown foresee this eventuality? No. They didn’t even -think- about what would happen. This is an ‘unexpected complication’ caused by centralized planning and control. Also known as a disaster.
“Bad luck”
ThePhantom, “All those baggage-smashers and airline minions QUIT”
Lots of those “brown people” that work at airports didn’t want to take the shot either. When the Turd forced Federal works to get vaccinated, lots said No Thankyou.
Check out Mark Steyn on this.
The airplane maintenance and safety is probably NOT affected in a similar way at all.
Throw away the “probably” and do some research. It most certainly IS affected in a similar way. I spent 34 years working in aircraft maintenance so far. What’s your experience?
I suspect he was being ironic.
Personally, I will never fly again, except under the most extraordinary circumstances. Airlines provide the worst customer service of any industry I’ve ever encountered, and since the FAA now permits airline manufacturers to “self-certify”, well, Boeing killed a few under that program, didn’t they?
It’s Justincompetence every where you look-passports, airports, health system everything this government touches has been degraded purposely.
The Trudeau Liberals are the most incompetent government in my lifetime. The only thing greater than the Trudeau government’s incompetence is their corruption. They can’t deliver basic services but sure have time to interfere in police investigations, illegally track Canadians, make backroom deals with SNC, WE and other well connected VIPs. All Trudeau Liberals do these days is fly all over the globe on the taxpayer’s dime. Apparently they think they can cure the world’s problems by spending billions of our money but their government can’t manage to issue passports to Canadian citizens in a timely manner.
In all seriousness, how could an independent Alberta and Saskatchewan be worse than the Trudeau Liberal government?
It’s too late. The ship of fools (Canada) is sinking fast and it’s too late for the Saskatchewan and Alberta life boats to launch. Actually the fools weren’t even planning on launching any life boats.
Sorry to break it but this is part of the plan to destroy the west. Similar to the pride month that just past, the child grooming, the virus and vax. The shortage of aircrew are mainly the pilots who were all vaxed. The vax has grounded them. I would not recommend airtravel even if there were no shortages of pilots. Anyone who is vaxed should not operate vehicles of mass transit.
This absolutely on purpose.
Welcome to the Coliseum.
I think you mean Thunder Dome….
Wouldn’t Blunder Dome be more appropriate?
One is a historical fact, the other a Mel Gibson movie.
It’s questionable whether anyone under the age of 25 even knows what The Coliseum is/was.
It may be on purpose, and if so, the West has richly deserved this, through decades of going along to get along with the US, high-fiving them as they sanction, regime-change and bomb country after country into the stoneage.
But I don’t think this is the reason. The very people who thought people like Bonnie Henry and Theresa Tam were qualified and able to act as dowager Empresses over their fiefdoms during the Covid lockdowns, are clearly incompetent boobs. “Top Doctor” types are a lot of things, but a good manager of people, economies and institutions is not one of them. Plato already told you that in “The Republic”.
No, it was a case of ambitious under-skilled bureaucrats chasing “consulting-gig street cred” by being seen to be “managing” a respiratory virus, coupled with a politicial class that has no real talent in STEM subjects and counter-analysis. And neither group having a stitch of advanced econometrics, supply chain, or finance knowledge.
It was the perfect storm.
(applause)
Playing economics Jenga.
Keep pulling out sticks until it collapses.
Then complain that capitalism failed and impose Marxist insanity.
When I lived in NFL I regularly flew home to Halifax every three weeks, a direct flight and it was always one giant AC cockcy up. I refuse to fly that Airline anymore, one midnight flight they forced us out of the airport and not a taxi to be found, apparently only X number of cabs are allowed to line up and if they’re not available you have to call a cab from the city to pick you up at the airport. I ended up getting into a cab that was um stolen/borrowed/he was fired minutes before he picked me up- and he ran out of gas and I had to pay for my fair at the gas station so he could finish the trip. I was scared to death that night, haven’t flow since.
Your description of the cab situation sounds a lot like what I had to endure at Fort St. John when I was still flying there.
The worst taxi service I’ve ever dealt with has a monopoly in that town. Dispatch is some call centre in Lower Slobovia and whoever’s answering often can’t speak English. The cabs are poorly maintained (how about multi-coloured vehicles because someone swapped a door from a white car onto one that’s primarly blue?) and often dirty. One is lucky if they arrive on time–I’ve nearly missed flights because the dispatchers either got the details wrong and thought I was actually at the airport or because they forgot to put out a call.
On top of that, they’re horrendously expensive. Two years ago, I took cabs to and from the airport near Edmonton for about the same amount that I paid in FSJ.
I prefer driving my truck for those trips now.
That is a trip from hell.
No the return trip was worse, a blinding blizzard in St. Johns, the cab driver who picked me up smoked a joint all the way home it was one ugly white knuckle trip. Once home he wanted to come in for coffee, hello noooooooooooo. Once he left I realized I was locked out of the house, hubby was called into work and took the dog with him. I had to break into the house, the next day the neighbor called and asked me what I was doing the night before, I said breaking into the house she stated “Hubby left the house key with me” so instead of bringing over the key she watched me cut a screen unscrew the window knob and crawl into my house via three inch crack.
I do stand corrected.
That’s an amazing anecdote.
Ask these weary travellers if they support removing all restrictions that led to this rigamarole and punishing those responsible.
They will say no.
This is Darwin’s will being done. Let people lose time and money. If they really cared, they would fight on principle, not because they are enormous, fat children who want their way NOW NOW NOW!
Sad to know we are living in the end times of humanity, and I’m not remotely religious!
I run a company that has gold projects in Colombia. To get to Bogota, I can fly AC Rouge, the worst airline in the history of aviation from the abomination of Terminal 1 at Pearson. Or, for slightly more money and time, I can fly COPA business class from the somewhat less annoying Terminal 3, with a quick layover in Panama airport. As recent travel has included Bogota, Paris CDG, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, I can say with surety that the problem is Canada. If you can successfully leave Canada, travel life becomes much more enjoyable.
When I was finishing my first master’s degree more than 40 years ago, I had a discussion about Air Can’tada with some of my fellow grad students.
Most of them were foreigners and some had experience with AC. They were bewildered that I disparaged that airline as being a crap outfit inside the country. They, on the other hand, thought that AC was an excellent outfit to fly with.
There are reasons for that:
https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/the-10-worst-airlines-in-the-world
https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-worlds-most-dangerous-airlines-3499008
A friend of mine used to be a pilot (Transat then AC). Is on a permanent leave because he’s unjabbed. He was telling us that pilots are being disqualified due to health issues (along, of course, the ones who were just let go for refusing to comply with the stupid mandates). Years contributing to EI and he coudn’t collect because he didn’t comply. He dipped into savings, got a commercial drivers license, and is now trucking in the lower mainland. The regime in Ottawa is a disgrace.
If he had left the country, he’d be even better off. Take this opportunity to cross the border, and never come back.
Easy to fix – CONTRACT OUT!
Get rid of these Snivelling Union assholes and hire some folks that WANT to work! Send the ‘Unionistas’ to the tent camps where they belong. They can all bitch together rather than at their “paying customers”.
I blame Putin
He blames Dostoevsky.
Kafka did it.
“At Air Canada, we’re not happy until you’re not happy”.
If airports were government run hospitals. Oh, wait. Now they are!
Change the name and it could be WestJet’s slogan as well. Now there is an airline that went downhill (complete with an “Up yours!” attitude towards its clientele) and that was before it was bought by Onex.
Are you not ENTERTAINED?
This crew is in rare form this evening.