Traumatic experience: Canadians stranded at airports over Sunwing cancellations [Video]

It was supposed to be a relaxing and fun vacation to a sunny destination to celebrate their anniversary.

However, John Tiu and his wife’s trip has been plagued by flight delays the moment they left Halifax. They are now stranded in an airport in the Dominican Republic.

“It’s like a traumatic experience, too, to not know when you’re flying back home,” Tiu said Thursday afternoon.

He’s among hundreds of Sunwing Airlines customers dealing with cancellations and delays after back-to-back winter storms hit Eastern Canada and a Delta plane crash at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport that shut down two runways.

Sunwing cancelled all southbound departure flights from Toronto for a second straight day, as well as those leaving from Montreal, as it deals with the backlog and focuses on passengers stranded in tropical destinations.

Sunwing flights in and out of other Canadian airports, including ones in the Maritimes, show delays and cancellations.

Tiu, whose week-long vacation has stretched into nine …