Nearly 2,000 Air Canada flights delayed, cancelled over long weekend

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Roughly half of all trips by the country\u0027s biggest airline were disrupted Saturday through Monday.

“It is a sea of humanity and mayhem at the Montreal airport this afternoon,” passenger Andrew Holland said in a Twitter post Monday evening.

“Our top priority is to ensure everyone travels safely, even if it requires extra time,” spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said in an email. “If an airplane craps out, for whatever reason — mechanical things do happen — you’ve got to fix the airplane before you go. So you automatically take these these monstrous delays or you cancel.”

 

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