Expect flight cancellations, delays in Winnipeg into the weekend: airports authority – Winnipeg | 24CA News
The Winnipeg Airports Authority expects the storms which have created chaos in Western provinces will have an effect on these travelling by Manitoba’s capital metropolis into the weekend.
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Heavy snow in Vancouver has painted a bleak image for travellers, with tons of of Air Canada and WestJet flights grounded since Sunday.
As Canadians scramble to rearrange vacation journey plans, a significant winter storm can be bearing down on Ontario, which Toronto’s Pearson International Airport says might have an effect on operations there as properly.
Environment Canada says the storm will start to hit Toronto Thursday afternoon with rain or snow, adopted by blizzard-like situations, plummeting temperatures and a possible flash freeze on Friday.
“Anytime there is a delay or cancellation really anywhere in the country, there’s a good chance we’re going to feel those ripple effects here,” WAA’s communications supervisor Michel Rosset mentioned in dialog with Hal Anderson on 680 CJOB’s Connecting Winnipeg.
Rosset advises travellers to examine the standing of their flights earlier than making their method to Winnipeg Richardson International Airport, together with keeping track of their emails and texts for messages from their airline.
A Winnipeg journey agent says there’s solely sooner or later in his profession that’s eclipsed the mayhem of Monday’s flight cancellations and delays — the day the COVID-19 pandemic shut down air journey all over the world in March 2020.
“It’s been absolutely awful (this week),” Mike Kroeker with Bonaventure Travel advised 680 CJOB’s The Start on Thursday.
“There’s just non-stop cancellations, and we’re trying to rebook and rebook,” Kroeker mentioned. “Two toes ahead, and 4 again it appears.“
Meanwhile, waiting for extra winter journey within the coming months, Kroeker says shopping for journey insurance coverage and dealing with a journey skilled can ease a number of the complications travellers are actually going through.
For these scuffling with the newest chaos in Canada’s airports, who did buy insurance coverage, Kroeker urges them to contact their insurance coverage supplier immediately to open a visit cancellation, delay or interruption declare.
— with recordsdata from The Canadian Press
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