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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
That's quite interesting. I've been keenly following the WestJet direct flights to Rome for a little while since I'm booked on that flight in three weeks and was pretty excited to fly direct there on the dreamliner. They cancelled passenger flight that was supposed to leave at 1805 but are now flying an empty plane over? I'd guess it would be to pick people up from Europe that were supposed to fly back on the return flight tomorrow but that doesn't make any sense because the lockout starts at 3am and they technically wouldn't have anyone to fly it home. And if they want to have planes on the ground ready to go, why not fly your passengers over tonight as scheduled while you're at it and keep that chunk of revenue and non-pissed off passengers. Or maybe they cancelled the flight this morning as a precaution but now in the afternoon are much closer to a deal but can't go back on un-cancelling the flight?
I'm morbidly curious to see how all this is going to play out
I flew Lynx last weekend to Vancouver and the weekend before that to Las Vegas and it was great. Nice new plane, they didn't hassle anyone over carryon size, flights were all on time. The only real difference to WestJet is no drink and pretzel but that's it.
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There are management pilots at WestJet not part of ALPA, likely the one's flying over to pick up passengers.