Air Canada CEO summoned to Ottawa over English-only condolence video for LaGuardia crash

[rudder]

Rousseau is out.

https://www.aircanada.com/media/air-can ... e-officer/

Without getting in to a broader and more pragmatic assessment of performance as CEO, the linguistic trigger seems weak. He is already dealing with one of the most challenging possible events facing any airline CEO.

Prior AC CEO’s that were not bilingual:

Montie Brewer
Robert Milton
Lamar Durrett
Hollis Harris

Four Americans. All hired after the ACPPA in 1989. There is no requirement in the ACPPA for the linguistic capability of the CEO.

Two pilots are dead. Flight crew and AC passengers are still hospitalized. And in Canada, politicians focus on themselves and scoring political points. Shame.

I wonder if any one of them has yet contributed to the GoFundme campaigns for the families of CA Forest, FO Gunther, or FA Tremblay?

[Dry Guy]

Just make it Ariel and get it over with. We all know HR runs every corp.

[yycflyguy]

Where? To only other countries where English is the national language? Because if you've flown to europe you'd have heard multiple countries speak their language to national traffic. Same with Asia and latin america.

Unless you were making shit up about canada being the only country that does it to prove your point. Couldn't be that, could it?

I fly all over the world including Montreal, the location of ICAO no less, definitely does way more non English than any other destination I fly to.

Sure the odd vehicle in Korea is speaking non English but you don't hear it on approach for example.

Montreal purposely reduces safety by decreasing the situation awareness of other aircrews by speaking French. Full stop.

You don't hear FIR controllers speaking Spanish to Avianca, LATAM, Aeromexico, and just about every other Latin American carrier? same goes for their approach, tower and ground controllers.

As someone who has lived and flown into and out of Latin America for more than 25 years all the controllers (ground, tower, area) will speak the local language first to their national carriers. Portugués in Brasil, Spanish most everywhere else. I’ve heard Panamanian controllers call COPA twice in Spanish before switching to English because it’s an Anglo flying it. I’ve also had Spanish controllers deny my requests (they didn’t fully understand what was asked) until I ask again in Spanish and get cleared as requested. In Colombia, tower always uses Spanish first with Avianca and Wingo.

[‘Bob’]

I can imagine the weeping and gnashing of teeth by those who think this was unnecessary or overreacting if a French only address/condolence was offered.

[flieslikeachicken]

I can imagine the weeping and gnashing of teeth by those who think this was unnecessary or overreacting if a French only address/condolence was offered.

With 29% of Canadians speaking French and 81% speaking English, your comparison is not very useful.

[TG]

I can imagine the weeping and gnashing of teeth by those who think this was unnecessary or overreacting if a French only address/condolence was offered.

With 29% of Canadians speaking French and 81% speaking English, your comparison is not very useful.

To the contrary, it’s very relevant.
Then I’m French speaking by birth and you’re probably Anglo speaking only besides what you learned at school sometimes ago so no bia there

(Happy to be corrected)