Too often the result was widespread cancellations, delays and lost bags.
Nav Canada, the private agency that runs the country’s air traffic control system, said it had implemented delays “to address system capacity constraints due to unplanned absences.”įor travellers, it was a troubling déjà vu of last year’s woes when airlines, airports and other agencies in the aviation ecosystem struggled to meet demand. The explanation from the airport was that “constraints are being experienced in the air navigation system.” Vancouver airport got hit with delays on Saturday.
“There were so many other factors that we saw last summer that are not present today,” said Alghabra told the Star in May.ĭid the minister speak too soon? Could this summer travel season – shaping up to be the busiest since the pandemic - be sideswiped by a problem that has been flying under the radar, so to speak?Īirline delays last weekend were a red flag that all is still not quite right with the country’s aviation sector.
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra confidently predicted a summer of smooth flying, vowing that the big problems that had snarled air travel last year had been largely solved.
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