Saskatchewan parents step up to the plate amid Air Canada flight cancellations

Saskatchewan parents step up to the plate amid Air Canada flight cancellations

The lingering affects of the Air Canada strike are still being felt, but the parents of one Sask. baseball team stepped up to the plate to get their kids out east to compete.

Sask. baseball team flight cancelled, but family rallied

Chaos around the Air Canada strike meant that for the Team Saskatchewan U15 boys baseball team, the workaround to get to a national tournament in Summerside, P.E.I., involved WestJet tickets, generous parents and flights to three different Atlantic airports. Head coach Blair Beck said Air Canada cancelled their Tuesday evening flight, but players’ parents and grandparents who were booked on the rival carrier stepped up to the plate. “The parents…

Plane, bus or a 45-hour drive? Travellers seek solutions after Air Canada strike ends – 105.9 The Region

Noha Zaher and Ibraheem Sabry still hadn’t made it home to Ottawa despite enduring nearly 60 hours of travel chaos and confusion after their vacation abroad. The couple and their two kids spent Tuesday at Toronto’s Pearson airport after they were denied boarding twice in Cairo because their flights with two different airlines were overbooked as a result of Air Canada flight cancellations. The three-day strike by the airline’s flight attendants m…