Author: The Skeptical Traveler

“OTTAWA – The federal government needs to launch a comprehensive review of its tariff policy to help bridge a yawning price gap between Canadian and American retail prices, a Senate committee said Wednesday.” Senators call for less tariffs to help close the Canada-U.S. price gap However, I don’t get the following: “The senators said some…

Air Canada posted a profit a net profit for 2012, its first annual profit in five years. Comparison of Air Canada’s stock and its main domestic competitor WestJet Airlines So between 2006 – 2013 West Jet share price increased 56% and Air Canada’s dropped 88%. And some highlights from the article “For 2012, Air Canada…

A Sunwing Airlines aircraft was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Bermuda, after a family was allegedly caught smoking aboard. This piece of news reminded me of the days when at the check-in they would ask you ‘smoking’ or ‘non-smoking’. The smokers were banished to the back of the plane and to get to…

Now that merchants are free to impose a surcharge on customers paying by credit card, I wonder how many more airlines will charge for paying by CC? A few years ago I was in London and I came across an article in magazine that said British Airways charged a £4.50 ($7.11) flat fee for using…

Yes, there had to be such a list. And I still remember the movie ‘Rain Man’ when Dustin Hoffman tells Tom Cruise that Qantas never crushed (see the video). Full article here “The results do not take into account the cause of the hull losses, or whether the airline is at fault, so they are…

“Anyone with a fear of flying should consider this before boarding their next flight: Last year, there was roughly one fatal airliner crash for every 2.5 million flights. Indeed, 2012 was the safest year for air travel since the dawn of the jet age in 1945, according to recently released data from the Aviation Safety…