Looks like WS28 YWG-LGW took a turn back to YUL for a 4 hr stop last night. If I were a fare paying passenger looking to travel to England from YWG I think I'd avoid our current once a week provider of service ..and just pay the price and go on Delta…YWG-MSP-LHR.

Medical emergency.

Pay the price and go on Delta. A few more doing the same and everybody will be going on Delta forever. Its probably already a marginal route, how many Europeans want to visit Winnipeg?

Rem wrote:Medical emergency.

Well here's proof that airlines need to do a better job of screening pax before letting them on the plane. If we put everyone through a quick medical checkup, then we could deny boarding to anyone who is at risk for becoming a medical emergency in the middle of the flight! That would cause far less inconvenience to passengers than diversions and delays.

On another note, was YUL really the closest suitable diversion spot to their track. I would think that the YWG-LGW leg would be much further north. Perhaps the medical emergency would have spontaneously improved if the crew informed them "We're going to divert to YFB to get you on the ground ASAP"!

NotDirty! wrote:

Rem wrote:Medical emergency.

Well here's proof that airlines need to do a better job of screening pax before letting them on the plane. If we put everyone through a quick medical checkup, then we could deny boarding to anyone who is at risk for becoming a medical emergency in the middle of the flight! That would cause far less inconvenience to passengers than diversions and delays.

On another note, was YUL really the closest suitable diversion spot to their track. I would think that the YWG-LGW leg would be much further north. Perhaps the medical emergency would have spontaneously improved if the crew informed them "We're going to divert to YFB to get you on the ground ASAP"!

You know thats discrimination right? You have a heart murmur? You're now a flight risk. You have asthma? Boom. Denied. Small cough? get off the plane.

The diversion would have many factors, you know for things like Weather!

Airlines deny pax that are not medically fit to travel all the time. An actual quick checkup on every pax is excessive however IMO.

NotDirty! wrote:

Rem wrote:Medical emergency.

Well here's proof that airlines need to do a better job of screening pax before letting them on the plane. If we put everyone through a quick medical checkup, then we could deny boarding to anyone who is at risk for becoming a medical emergency in the middle of the flight! That would cause far less inconvenience to passengers than diversions and delays.

On another note, was YUL really the closest suitable diversion spot to their track. I would think that the YWG-LGW leg would be much further north. Perhaps the medical emergency would have spontaneously improved if the crew informed them "We're going to divert to YFB to get you on the ground ASAP"!

Medlink makes the decision where to divert.

Not that it would change the flight crew's decision to divert but who eats the cost of a medical? Is it all on the airline? Insurance company? Canadian government?

Pretty sure it's the airline that pays.

Have you been to the new YWG terminal?

Look at the number of chairs at each gate in the boarding lounge.... Not very many.... Even they don't think they can support international service (unless it's on a 737)

Nice building with only ONE more gate than the old one.

Ah YWG, jewel of the prairies. Not enough seating area at the departure gates you say, well how about them toilets! Two urinals and two toilets in a little cubicle spaced about 5000 feet apart from one another! Lets not forget those check-in kiosks, placed strategically in the middle of floor on the departure level, impeding movement as throngs of people line up to escape this shit hole. This has to be one of the most poorly designed airport terminals in Canada.

Rowdy wrote:You know thats discrimination right? You have a heart murmur? You're now a flight risk. You have asthma? Boom. Denied. Small cough? get off the plane.

The diversion would have many factors, you know for things like Weather!

You have anaphylaxis, so we can't serve you at this restaurant because if you die a waiter could go to jail.

Slippery slope eh? Not saying it's right but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

Turd Ferguson wrote:Ah YWG, jewel of the prairies. Not enough seating area at the departure gates you say, well how about them toilets! Two urinals and two toilets in a little cubicle spaced about 5000 feet apart from one another! Lets not forget those check-in kiosks, placed strategically in the middle of floor on the departure level, impeding movement as throngs of people line up to escape this shit hole. This has to be one of the most poorly designed airport terminals in Canada.

Hey, YWG is special, no other terminal in the world has its own Salisbury House

Kosiw wrote:

Turd Ferguson wrote:Ah YWG, jewel of the prairies. Not enough seating area at the departure gates you say, well how about them toilets! Two urinals and two toilets in a little cubicle spaced about 5000 feet apart from one another! Lets not forget those check-in kiosks, placed strategically in the middle of floor on the departure level, impeding movement as throngs of people line up to escape this shit hole. This has to be one of the most poorly designed airport terminals in Canada.

Hey, YWG is special, no other terminal in the world has its own Salisbury House

Not anymore

co-joe wrote:

Rowdy wrote:You know thats discrimination right? You have a heart murmur? You're now a flight risk. You have asthma? Boom. Denied. Small cough? get off the plane.

The diversion would have many factors, you know for things like Weather!

You have anaphylaxis, so we can't serve you at this restaurant because if you die a waiter could go to jail.

Slippery slope eh? Not saying it's right but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

Thats exactly what I was referring to!

Rowdy wrote:

co-joe wrote:

Rowdy wrote:You know thats discrimination right? You have a heart murmur? You're now a flight risk. You have asthma? Boom. Denied. Small cough? get off the plane.

The diversion would have many factors, you know for things like Weather!

You have anaphylaxis, so we can't serve you at this restaurant because if you die a waiter could go to jail.

Slippery slope eh? Not saying it's right but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

Thats exactly what I was referring to!

I'm smellin what you're steppin in man. I'm pickin up what you're throwing down.