Air Canada 221: YYC-YVR

Tripcase is a fantastic application. 

It’s the first time I’ve mentioned it on the blog but if you travel often or even little, it can be such a trip saver. 

Many times, I have received pop-up notifications with gate changes or even delays before the airport updates flight information or the crew updates an annoyed passenger armada waiting for pushback. 

This little app gets a mention today because it told me of a delay with my flight to Vancouver 8 hours for the flight. The flight changes such that my connection to San Francisco would have been likely impossible. What was once an hour and half connection became 21 minutes. Simply not enough to transfer to the transborder area at YVR. 

What irks me more is that Air Canada did not follow up with a phone call from the concierge. Granted, the day must have been crazy for them given the thunderstorm induced cancellations. I suspect my flight was only delayed as Air Canada needed to up gauge the tiny Embraer 190 jet to a goliath 777-300ER to ease the early morning cancellations. 

I should have known from the awakening thunder in the morning there would be flight troubles. I have learned a lesson. 

After a quick call to concierge, my flights were pulled in 2 hours and I was back on track to meet my connection in Vancouver. 

The Embraer 190 regional jet runs regular flights between YYC and YVR. Business class was configured 1-2 and I was seatedon the right side unlike my original flight which had the single seat in row 2. 

The short flight was stocked with short snacks. This was actually the first time I’ve traveled such a short distance in Business class with Air Canada so I was surprised to even see a snack. 

The flight attendant shoved the tray on my table after looking annoyed that I did not understand her pantomime that was apparently, “open your damn tray table!”

The cheese plate was actually quite well stocked with the typical cheese plate suspects. Cheddar, Swiss, and Brie coupled with carr’s water crackers and melba toast. Grapes, a slice of tomato, and cucumber were also found alongside a garnish of wilted lettuce

We landed in YVR on schedule, however my changed flight did not with a total delay of two hours from it’s originally scheduled time landing in YVR at the time of my connection departure.