: It’s sad to me that columnist Konrad Yakabuski would suggest Air Canada and its employees do not deserve taxpayer assistance.
I have just accepted early retirement from Air Canada while 15,000 of my colleagues have received layoff notices. As a manager, I spent my last weeks answering e-mails and calls from colleagues volunteering to help bring stranded Canadians home. Few of these repatriation flights generated any profit as they went outbound almost empty.
Many of our crews became infected during these flights. I contracted COVID-19 at some point and unwittingly infected my first officer during our last flight together. Her response to my apology: “We brought 270 Canadians home. It was worth it.” Customer service agents, maintenance and cleaning staff and other employees also risked their health to help Canadians.
I am proud to say that Air Canada employees have demonstrated the very best of human nature and compassion. I believe they deserve the same.While I am compassionately supportive of the employees who have been laid off as a result of the virtual shutdown of airline travel, I am stone-cold toward the industry’s corporate leaders.
I recall Canada’s airlines fought tooth and nail to water down the air passenger protection regulations from 2019. Compared to regulations in Europe, I find ours are filled with loopholes, escape clauses and minimal compensation for passengers when flights are delayed or cancelled.
GlobeDebate Part of the CDN pop is social distancing. I have friends out in Whitby who have invited me over - which I refused and are having play dates with others. Some people are not taking this seriously.
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