Meatservo wrote:[, I think I'll tell you all about the flight attendant my wife saw yesterday while travelling on Air Canada,
After giving the spiel about the six dollar sandwiches, and the 2 dollar pops and the alchoholic drinks available for a "small charge"
If you are going to bitch about things at least post the facts correctly. You wife was travelling on Jazz. (there is a Jazz section if you would like to bitch about Jazz F/A's) and please explain what you mean by 2 dollar pops. I admit I haven't flown on a Jazz flight for quite some time but as far as I know pop is still free....
PS Air Canada isn't the only airline that charges for sandwiches and alcohol....
godsrcrazy wrote:
I had the unfortunate pleasure of riding on Air Canada 2 weeks ago from Toronto to Vancouver. 5.5 hours of next to no service. They came up the isles twice with the commissary cart and on the hour offering water.
Hell we are all ready paying $6.00 for a pop that the rest of the aircraft gets for free and a 1 ounce bottle of booze that doesn’t cost the airline $2.00.
When I have a choice I do try and fly West Jet every chance I get
I have a couple of questions for you... By your own statement the F/A's offered you either food or water about 4-5 times during a 5.5 hr flight. Taking into consideration that they can't serve during the first and last 15-20 min of the flight that leaves about 4.5hrs of flight time. So they came by approximately once every hour. How much attention do you need? How often do the WestJest F/A's come by during a 5.5 hr flight?
As for the price of liquor, do you whine when you are charged $6.00 for a rye and coke in a restaraunt or a bar? Or better yet, how much do you pay for the same drink on Westjet?
godsrcrazy wrote:
I had the unfortunate pleasure of riding on Air Canada 2 weeks ago from Toronto to Vancouver. 5.5 hours of next to no service. They came up the isles twice with the commissary cart and on the hour offering water.
Hell we are all ready paying $6.00 for a pop that the rest of the aircraft gets for free and a 1 ounce bottle of booze that doesn’t cost the airline $2.00.
When I have a choice I do try and fly West Jet every chance I get
I have a couple of questions for you... By your own statement the F/A's offered you either food or water about 4-5 times during a 5.5 hr flight. Taking into consideration that they can't serve during the first and last 15-20 min of the flight that leaves about 4.5hrs of flight time. So they came by approximately once every hour. How much attention do you need? How often do the WestJest F/A's come by during a 5.5 hr flight?
As for the price of liquor, do you whine when you are charged $6.00 for a rye and coke in a restaraunt or a bar? Or better yet, how much do you pay for the same drink on Westjet?
To begin with any West Jet flight i have been on the F/A's do come around more often and ask if you would like anything more then water. When you do ask for some thing more like paying $6.00 for a $2.00 drink they serve it to you with a smile. Maybe they do this because they know you are paying 3 times what it cost and are smart enough to realize that by paying that extra cost it goes toward revenue. They don't make you feel like you are being a pain in their a$$ for asking for some thing. Every time the Air Canada F/A's have to get one of us pain in the a$$'s some thing it disrupts their bitch session. Maybe that is why they don't like having to do their JOB. The truth is that Air Canada's moral sucks. The counter staff are not any better and in most case's insure they get you in the right mood before you get to the F/A's so they can finish it off. The difference is we only have to deal with counter staff attitudes for a few minutes in most case's.
It is sad that all Air Canada is painted with the same brush. They truly do have some good people working there.
Ugly stories abound here in Thunder Bay....inexplicably canceled flights, luggage lost after direct flight from Winnipeg and found a week later, rude staff. Add to that what I read on this forum, and the result is an extreme wariness on my part to fly with them at any time...so, I was not happy about flying to Edmonton on AC this past weekend...
YQT - YYZ - YEG there, YEG - YWG - YQT on the way back. Counter staff were smiling and helpful, same with the FA's. IMHO the in-flight service was fine. All flights were on time, and my luggage arrived the carousel at the same time and location as myself. It would probably be prudent to have a few more flights on AC to form a better baseline for my opinion, but my experience this past weekend was fine. I think most people post and read messages that support their pre-conceived notions...just putting this out there for the sake of balance.
Just flew from YYZ to LAS last week. The trip down was uneventful, but boarding on coming back... well let's say I've never seen anything like this. My wife is disabled and walks with a cane. The F/A announces preboarding for executive class and those needing assistance. My wife goes to the lineup only to be told she was too slow and to GO TO THE BACK OF THE LINE!
Unfuc*ing believable! The reason she's slow is because she's disabled you dumb shi*! This maybe the first and last time I fly AC. And to top it all, as she's struggling down the aisle to her seat, a F/A pushes her aside into another passenger to get to the front of the aircraft. No excuse me, no nothing.
We're filing a complaint with AC once we can find on their site where to complain (well hidden, it is). I'll take Delta over AC everytime even though you cannot get a direct flight, the transfer at a hub is worth the inconvenience over ignorance and abuse.
Recently flew to Cancun with Jazz & AC. On the Jazz flight I was offered the standard complimentary drink & crackers. Ac was a whole other story. Offered one drink, no food. Asked for a blanket.."Sorry, those cost money." Was offered a headset for purchase on the entertainment system that didn't work. On the return flight, same deal with AC, and was offered two drinks and a couple bags of crackers with Jazz. My two 1.5 hr flights with Jazz were better served and far more "plentiful" then my two 4 hr flights with AC. Not necessarily the flight attendants fault, but AC's fault as a company. Apparently Toronto-Cancun isn't international enough for anything more than a small glass of ginger ale.
Apparently, the same goes for any caribbean destination.
