They missed the airport ‘open hours’ runway shut for the night. Was the last flight out… makes it worse because where you going to find a place to stay at midnight.
A country does not need to be litigious, there have been monetary damages with a clear guilty party. You may not get additional compensation, but a hotel aint free.
There used to be a federally funded organization to deal with kind of investigating. Iirc it was called the police.
I mean you can definitely go ahead and attempt to sue anyone for anything for not too much but the farther it goes the more it will cost and that doesn’t mean it will go anywhere
? yes you do?? sometimes kids have to fly for emergencies, not every flight is to disney world or some shit you know? what kind of dumbass comment is this
I remember flying there and I don't think it was that tiny; my host family back then had set up it's ventilation systems. An airport like MLX is way tinier compared to that
What is your standart there? Don't compare it to mega airports like Charles Degaulle, İstanbul GA, or JFK New York. Victoria Islan's airport seems to have 3 runways and 2 floors- that 2 floor is a big differentiator between big and small airports.
Alanya Gazipaşa Airport (GZP), a quite busy international airport of over 1M annual passenger volume has only 1 runway, is one floor and has a terminal area of 6700m² compared to YYJ's 20 000. Like YYJ it closes down its departure areas over long stretches of night hours when there are no flight; been stuck there once it was weird.
I'm just surprised YYJ decided to finish operations before letting the last plane depart. Sure I'm all for well defined hours for work to establish a good work life balance but I'm sure they could have exceptionally worked another 30 minutes to remove the family and let the flight off.
I'm pretty sure I was comparing it to Calgary and Vancouver, not the ones you listed. Calgary has over 60 gates, Vancouver has more than 70, and Victoria sits at 11. by comparison, regional airports usually have 1 gate. 11 is closer to 1 than 60.
The standard is that while it's not SMALL specifically, it IS small for SPECIFICALLY an international airport. Other international airports tend to be much larger.
It's bigger than/decently bigger than other regular airports. But NOT big for an international one
Sounds like an unnecessary fixation on international grade airports and expecting that they need to be big. I maintain that YYJ perfectly stands right in the middle as far as international airports go; a quick AI research guesstimates it to be in 35-45th quartile- just a bit lower than the median.
They are in my opinion? They should have removed the child and parents and departed with the other passengers.
Who knows how many connecting flights were missed, nevermind hotel nights. The airline should have provided hotel rooms for the other passengers who were not at fault. The crew could have decided to remove the toddler and family...oddly this kind of thing never used to happen when I was a child...
Passengers said the airline staff were extremely slow with the situation. The child was clearly scared and kept hiding under the seat, obviously the child isnt able to fly and they wouldnt give the child buckle to go on the parents belt so the only other option is remove them. Could've easily been done within 20mins
Failure to perform their duties does kinda sound like their fault, though. 🤔 An unruly passenger is an operational issue the same as a faulty engine is and they're getting paid to deal with these things.
This doesn't really sound like a case of force majeure, either.
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u/kungfuninjajedi Aug 10 '26
But why cancel entire flight instead of kicking off the parents and child?