{"id":41394,"date":"2018-01-02T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41394"},"modified":"2018-01-02T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:54:19","slug":"extreme-cold-sparks-chaos-in-canada-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41394","title":{"rendered":"Extreme cold sparks chaos in Canada airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONTREAL Jan 02 (TNS):<\/strong> Snow, lengthy de-icing procedures and missing crews created havoc at Canada\u00b4s main airports on Monday, with hundreds of flights cancelled or delayed out of the country\u00b4s biggest city Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>A deep freeze has settled over large parts of Canada and the United States, bringing extreme cold, piles of snow, and icy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>From the early hours of New Year\u00b4s Day, Air Canada warned that holiday travel could be hectic, issuing a travel alert for passengers using airports in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa and waiving the usual fee for ticket changes.<\/p>\n<p>As the day wore on, the delays mounted, with take-off delays of four to five hours, according to data collected from airport websites.<\/p>\n<p>In Toronto, snow aggravated the situation, and by 20:30 GMT, nearly 500 flights had been cancelled or delayed, according to flight tracker FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers asked for help &#8212; and vented their ire &#8212; on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You ppl have cost me two days of my vacation and a day\u00b4s salary,\u201d traveller Carla Whyte said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UNACCEPTABLE. Ruined my vacation I have been waiting for all year. This is insane. Great way to start my 2018, @AirCanada,&#8221; chimed in Anne-Marie Robart.<\/p>\n<p>One US citizen said he left Montreal more than two hours late &#8212; only to find himself stuck in Toronto. Air Canada told him the earliest he could leave was Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the poor weather, WestJet said it had to cancel one flight due to a &#8220;crew shortage issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would never wish to inconvenience our guests this way and we truly apologize,&#8221; the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL Jan 02 (TNS): Snow, lengthy de-icing procedures and missing crews created havoc at Canada\u00b4s main airports on Monday, with hundreds of flights cancelled or delayed out of the country\u00b4s biggest city Toronto. A deep freeze has settled over large parts of Canada and the United States, bringing extreme cold, piles of snow, and icy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-41394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41396,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394\/revisions\/41396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}