I can give you a report on this as I as actually on it

There is a flightaware link time/alt/speed chart WG423 Tuesday October 22nd POP direct YYZ
We took off at approx. 1935 local and somewhere between V1 and V2 there was a bird strike on the number 2
Ingestion caused the bang and vibration felt by all. The pilots were committed to the take off roll, climbed to 12000 and proceed to fly a shoreline parallel track and phone their ops. After about 10 min a decision was made to go back to POP, then 5min later reversed to fly direct PUJ(Punta Cana). I thought cool, I'm going to see the other side of the island.
Calm cool and collect was a professional job by the flight crew as everything went perfect and landed safely in PUJ with the fire crew escort and all. It was a bit overkill but the facilities at PUJ are probably 10 fold then POP.
Cool....got to spend another day on the island and they brought in another bird. I always like to see the positives on these events and tell other pax the same. We walked away, we get fed get a room and enjoy another day in paradise(bed bugs excluded). They(pax) are mostly 9-5ers so there is always some whining, one even argued with a rep and got the boot as I thought he would.


Here's the curve ball. On the initial flight inbound from yyz rain and TS+ the flight stops at POP then continues to PUJ. On T/O from POP to PUJ they have a problem with the Capt.'s wiper. Day fix and 6hr hold in POP. Could they have handled it better? Why push the limits. No MEL for wiper in TS+ and RA

Oh yeah does anyone know if Montezuma's revenge takes about a week to recover?