in the east if the flight was coming out of Eastern Canada was due to weather problems..... Air travel returning to normal in Ontario after ice storm Last Updated Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:34:14 TORONTO - Flight schedules at Canada's busiest airport were getting back to normal on Sunday, after two days of freezing rain and a shortage of de-icing fluid. On Saturday, the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, which runs Pearson International Airport, ran out of de-icing fluid for a second consecutive day, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights in and out of Toronto. The airport used up its entire 700,000-litre supply of glycol, usually enough for 30 days during the winter. The airport authority had more de-icing fluid trucked in from Montreal and the United States. Thousands of passengers were left stranded as about 400 flights in and out of Pearson were cancelled between Friday and Saturday due to the weather. The storm that hit Ontario has now moved east, prompting Air Canada to warn of flight delays at airports in Quebec and Atlantic Canada due to de-icing. The airline said it did not anticipate any "significant" flight cancellations in the eastern parts of the country. Written by CBC News Online staff At 06:05 PM 06/04/2003 -0700, you wrote: >I know there are some Air Canada watchers here, so I thought I'd ask. >I took a friend and her daughter to SFO yesterday for an AC flight to >Vancouver, but it was cancelled (and they didn't call her). The gate >agent gave a flat "mechanical" as the reason, with the implication that >he didn't believe it either. > >I looked at the board and 3 out of 8 arrivals/departures yesterday were >cancelled. Hmmm. > >She was rebooked on an Alaska Air flight leaving an hour later, so no >big problem, but some of the AC pax were speculating, wondering if it >was (a) cancelled flights due to poor bookings, (b) something >associated with the bankruptcy filing, or (c) a labour action having to >do with (b), or with SARS. > >Anyone hear anything? > >-- >Michael C. Berch >mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.carstt.com TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************