Bayer
Senior Member
My husband already has his appointment for next week. Then again he just turned 70. I'll be eligible in January. But the next one is the flu shot!
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Bayer
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I agree that most of the few people who wear masks don't use anything really adequate, though it's better than nothing. I order boxes of the 3M Aura N95s regularly. But I don't think vaccines are sufficient at this point. To protect hospitals, we should slow down transmission (of all respiratory illnesses) now that fall has arrived.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Well I guess we will find out - the post-vax Omicron peak (which by all accounts raged pretty much out of control fast) last late fall didn’t turnout to be nearly as bad as feared, which is a good sign. I guess the problem is how to ring fence the hospitals to prevent it from overtaxing the health workers.
Planning to get the bivalent dose.
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afransen
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I probably will, but not in a huge rush.
gabe
Senior Member
According to Air Canada masks are unscientific.
"Air Canada welcomes the removal of these restrictions, acknowledging that air travel is safe and that the measures were not justified by science. We believe it will greatly facilitate travel, help to continue stabilizing the country's air transport sector and support Canada's economy. Customers and crew will still have the option to wear masks and we also encourage customers to monitor their own health to be sure they feel well and fit to travel," said Craig Landry, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at Air Canada."
"Air Canada welcomes the removal of these restrictions, acknowledging that air travel is safe and that the measures were not justified by science. We believe it will greatly facilitate travel, help to continue stabilizing the country's air transport sector and support Canada's economy. Customers and crew will still have the option to wear masks and we also encourage customers to monitor their own health to be sure they feel well and fit to travel," said Craig Landry, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at Air Canada."
Bayer
Senior Member
Sometimes I just don't understand why private businesses publish statements they should know will be controversial and annoy part of their clientèle. There was strictly no need for this tweet.According to Air Canada masks are unscientific.
"Air Canada welcomes the removal of these restrictions, acknowledging that air travel is safe and that the measures were not justified by science. We believe it will greatly facilitate travel, help to continue stabilizing the country's air transport sector and support Canada's economy. Customers and crew will still have the option to wear masks and we also encourage customers to monitor their own health to be sure they feel well and fit to travel," said Craig Landry, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at Air Canada."
zang
Senior Member
Air Canada also chose to use staff availability as a "safety issue" to try and side-skirt the mandatory passenger compensation payout from the Air Passenger Protection Regulations.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-cta-compensation-1.6583231
Long gone are the days of globally-lauded crown corporation. Privatization made them just another money-grubbing near-monopoly.
Richard White
Senior Member
Not to get too far off topic but technically you can't fly an aircraft without a minimum number of staff. This is a safety thing in the event of an evacuation.
On the other hand, they have had more than enough time to get their act together and hire.
One contributing factor may be how crews are paid.
Flight Attendants for example only get paid while the doors are closed. They also have to bid for flights and new hires usually get placed on reserve, standby or have minimal flights
It is easy to say that this is Air Canadas fault but it is also a by-product of how the industry operates.
zang
Senior Member
They have the staff to cover cancellations, they're just trying to cancel less profitable flights without repercussion.
And the industry is f-ed in Canada in great part because of the privatization of Air Canada. They spent nearly two decades crying poor due to 9/11, and will now continue to milk Covid-19 for subsidies and special accommodations as long as they can get away with it.
I say this as the child of a long-serving AC Captain. The company is a twisted mess of what it once was.
lenaitch
Senior Member
I thought it started as 'push back', but essentially a quibble. Each bargaining unit is different but I don't think any pay for all the hours they are required to be at work.
Richard White
Senior Member
And that is my point. The wages are so bad for flight crews that they have a hard time attracting staff. The delays are not covid related at this point (the covid cases are low and passenger traffic is up) but instead systemic.
Once the novelty of flying everywhere wears off, flight crews start to realize they do not get paid that much. It is not the consumers problem that AC is run by cheap bastards.
A good friend of mine is a retired Captain and their spouse also worked for AC for years. They agree with this.
Northern Light
Superstar
I don't wish to divert the current tangent further; but must contribute that staffing, especially for entry-level/lower pay jobs is a challenge across many industries and sectors, its certainly not limited to aviation.
That's not to let Air Canada or anyone else off the hook; issues of low wages, low benefits, work-life balance, and failure to invest in quality products/services all play a role, in the current situation, as does the way in which business leaders have been trained to operate for the last 2 generations (shareholder value has become a curse, literally and metaphorically, often causing shortsighted decisions to meet a quarterly target at the expense of the longer term interests of the company, never mind society)
That's not to let Air Canada or anyone else off the hook; issues of low wages, low benefits, work-life balance, and failure to invest in quality products/services all play a role, in the current situation, as does the way in which business leaders have been trained to operate for the last 2 generations (shareholder value has become a curse, literally and metaphorically, often causing shortsighted decisions to meet a quarterly target at the expense of the longer term interests of the company, never mind society)
Admiral Beez
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gabe
Senior Member
Good luck getting everyone to wear masks again.