Alaska Airlines since 2010 has guaranteed that your bags will be waiting at baggage claim no more than 20 minutes after your flight arrives, if that is not the case you will receive either a $25 discount code for a future Alaksa flight or 2,500 Alaska Mileage Plan bonus miles. Why more airlines don't do this I don't know as it's one of the many small things that makes Alaska my go-to airline. https://www.alaskaair.com/content/travel-info/baggage/baggage-claim/20-minute-guarantee

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Excellent! I flew SEA-YUL on an AirCanada A220 this July and it was a great experience. The 2-3 seating means fewer middle seats and wider seats as well. Overhead bin space was great so I carried on rather than risk the mess that was baggage handling at YUL this summer. Short of a long deal departing YUL because of lack of ground crew and weather delays it was quite enjoyable.

(Written on 10/28/2022)(Permalink)

SeaTac airport has had this sort of system in place since 2018 but only issues 100 passes per day which won't cause any additional congestion. Higher numbers would be possible if you limited the number of visitor passes per flight.

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SeaTac airport has had this sort of system in place since 2018 but only issues 100 passes per day which won't cause any additional congestion.

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SeaTac airport in Seattle has been doing that since 2018: https://www.portseattle.org/page/sea-visitor-pass-program. Access is limited to 100 people per day however so it's not a large program.

(Written on 10/28/2022)(Permalink)

If airlines would have all-masked and all-unmasked flights and let us choose which to take I would go along with that. Unfortunately now it's like the olden days when they tried to pretend that they could set up "smoking" and "non-smoking" sections on an airplane and make everyone happy.

(Written on 10/02/2022)(Permalink)

Did you ever consider that you might be the one being lied to?

(Written on 10/02/2022)(Permalink)

Certainly a lot of people hope that it is but I still have way too many people in my group of friends that have come down with it in the last month. Only once that changes will I begin to believe that it is over. Other folks can quote this statistic or that statistic but I am going by my friends and co-workers and Covid is still out there and taking names among them so I am still taking precautions.

(Written on 10/02/2022)(Permalink)

Harbour Air in Vancouver has been working on electric flight since 2019 which makes total sense for them where most of their flights are seaplane journeys of less than an hour (I think their longest flight is to Seattle). It will a long time before it will be practical beyond short journeys but in this niche area it should work rather well. In some remote areas it might actually be superior because you would not have to truck/ship/fly fuel in but could charge it from solar or wind power.

(Written on 10/02/2022)(Permalink)

I'm actually kinda disappointed about this. I needed to fly to upstate New York this July but wasn't excited about flying cross-country to NYC and then connecting to Burlington or Albany with a bunch of unmasked people who no longer cared whether they got other people sick or not. So instead I few direct to Montreal on Air Canada where the FA's were super-serious about folks not ignoring the masking rules which definitely lowered my stress level, especially since vaccination was also required. This made for a pleasant journey and a nice trip. Now I'll probably put off any travel until next summer when hopefully we will finally have made some progress against the disease.

(Written on 10/02/2022)(Permalink)