When Jennifer Lang and Amy Porteous docked in downtown Vancouver at the end of an Alaskan cruise Saturday morning, they had no indication that they wouldn’t make it home to Ottawa as planned.
They took an Uber to Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, only to find out once they arrived that their flight home was one of hundreds cancelled by WestJet after the airline’s mechanics’ union went ahead with strike plans Friday evening.
“(We got) no notification whatsoever,” Lang told CTV News.
“We were at the airport before we found out.”
Australian tourist Robert Goudie was in the same boat – albeit not literally – on Saturday. His party arrived at the airport for their flight to Victoria, only to find out that it wouldn’t be taking off.
“We didn’t get any notifications, but once we got here, yeah, all cancelled,” he said, adding that he suspects any alerts that were sent went to his travel agent in Australia.
All three travellers who spoke to CTV News Saturday …