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Air Canada premium economy seats. ROUTE Flight AC34 Sydney to Vancouver AIRCRAFT Boeing 777-200LR LOYALTY SCHEME Aeroplan, with points also earned from other Star Alliance airline programs. CLASS Premium economy seat, 14K DURATION 14 hours, 30 minutes Get the latest news and updates by email straight to your inbox. CARBON EMISSIONS 2.42 tons. Air Canada provides carbon offsetting facilities for passengers in partnership with Canadian company Less Emissions (see www.less.ca) FREQUENCY Air Canada flies daily from Sydney to Vancouver. HEALTH Passengers are required to wear masks. We were given a kit containing sanitiser and spare masks, along with the amenities. Please note that some arriving passengers may be selected for a random COVID-19 test upon arrival, and will be notified by email of the procedure. CHECK At the entrance to the check-in desk there is a preliminary check of passengers’ COVID era documents – so have a printout/screenshot of your International Va...

An Adelaide couple on holiday in the Northern Territory said they had to get home by bus 48 hours after their Jetstar flight was canceled over the weekend. Key points: Therese Kenny spent 48 hours on the bus so she could go home after her flight was cancelled A Greyhound Australia spokesperson said there had been an increase in sales due to flight cancellations Jetstar said customers were offered rescheduled flights, but acknowledged availability was limited Therese Kenny and her husband George are on holiday in Darwin and will fly back to Adelaide on Saturday morning. But just five hours before their flight was due to depart, they were told it had been cancelled. Kenny told ABC Radio Adelaide the airline had offered his seat on another flight in about six days. The former Liberal ministerial staffer and state candidate said he also found one-way flights from Darwin to Adelaide on unspecified airlines cost $5,000 each. “We just weren’t in a position to do that, we could have...

A former Qantas baggage handler has exposed the chaos behind the scenes as the airline struggles to save its sinking reputation with travelers experiencing long delays and flight cancellations. The man who chose not to be named claimed that after 1,800 baggage handlers were laid off during the Covid-19 period and work was outsourced to third-party contractors, baggage was left in rooms for weeks and even planes broke down. “Yeah, when the pandemic hit, we got JobKeeper for a while and were given enforced redundancy,” he told Nine’s Today Show. ‘Many men don’t want to go. Many older men with more than 35, 30 years experience, they don’t know how to apply for jobs online. So it affects older people. An unnamed former Qantas baggage handler said the airline had suffered since it fired its experienced ground crew and replaced them with inexperienced contract workers. The former Qantas employee said morale plummeted after experienced baggage ...