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- From: patth@panix.com (Patt Bromberger)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
- Subject: Re: Fares when death in family
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.184912.15081@panix.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:49:12 GMT
- References: <724344273snx@tixel.mv.com> <1992Dec22.181452.26080@panix.com> <1992Dec23.052711.27711@math.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.052711.27711@math.toronto.edu> joel@math.toronto.edu (Joel Chan) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.181452.26080@panix.com> patth@panix.com (Patt Bromberger) writes:
- >>
- >>This was our experience earlier this year when my husband had to fly
- >>from Vancouver, B.C. (he took a flight out of Bellingham, WA, just
- >>like the Canadians do!) to New York City for his grandfather's
- >>funeral.
- >>
- >>Not one of the Canadian Air Lines was interested in making an
- >>accommodation for "emergency" travel.
- >
- >Are you sure this is true? There is a section in the Canadian Airlines
- >System Timetable which states that it offers special assistance and
- >discount fares when there is a death in the family. I'm not sure
- >whether Air Canada does this as well.
-
- Yes, I am ** positively ** sure of this; our next
- door neighbor works for Canadian Airlines -- even
- she was surprised. We have since relocated ** back
- home ** to NYC! :-)
-
-
- >Of course, a problem is that Canadian does not fly to New York. Perhaps
- >that was why Canadian did not offer you accomodation for emergency travel?
- >Air Canada does fly to New York.
-
- Well, United Airlines didn't have a direct flight
- from Bellingham either but they routed my husband
- thru Seattle and then direct to New York.
-
- Of course, the problem might have been that we admitted
- to being "American citizens" (the equivalent of having
- a contagious social disease in Canada). It was our
- unfortunate experience to discover that our northern
- neighbors loved to have us visit and spend our money
- in their northern location but do NOT take a university
- seat that a Canadian might have or live in a home or
- apartment a Canadian might want or take a job that a
- Canadian who previously rejected the offer but on being
- told it has been offered to an American, has decided to
- accept the position and do the work :-)
-
- Having to defend our national origin more than three
- times each day got to be utterly annoying and terribly
- boring!
-
- Although, in all fairness, I have been told by friends
- visiting us in Vancouver, who came from Ottawa and PEI,
- that they also felt as though they were in a "time warp"
- while in B.C. and found it to be the most racist province
- in Canada.
-
- "There's no place like home." (Dorthy: The Wizard of Oz)
-
- >Happy Holidays,
-
- Ditto!
-
-
- --
- Patricia Ann Bromberger patth@panix.com
- This quote borrowed from: Gary.Petraccaro@f12.n2610.z1.fidonet.org
- ... "It matters not so much what you sing, but why..." J.S. Bach
-