Ghar, can’t sleep… Guess I’m getting back into my West Coast time. hehe. But meh, that’s how I got started blogging, cause I couldn’t sleep.. so I guess this is how I’m gonna get the boost I need. Yeah I haven’t posted in a while.. Been.. sortoff busy, I was out camping with the family this weekend. That was cool, except for all the mosquito bites. Guess I’m to blame for it though cause I wouldn’t put on any insect repelent.
Ahh what else is new *Pause, scratch scratch*… stupid insects… I bought my tickets to come home for Christmas. December 9th, Aircanada flight… Meh I forget it. But it’s a journey, as usual. I can’t believe I’m flying Air Canada again. Westjet has no flights for the time I need to fly out, plus Air Canada has advanced seat selection for only 10 bucks. But Air Canada just sucks so bad, I’m not sure it’s worth it. Meh, what I do, I already booked the flights tho.
Yeah, I know people complain LOTS about Airliners. I’ve been into this one show, Airline, or is it Airport? But yeah, it just shows what’s happening to the airline employees. It’s pretty cool, I imagine myself in it sometimes, cause I fly so much, but I’m a very.. quiet passenger.. you know the whole asian thing, very non-confrontational.. so I’d never do anything waranting getting on tv. But it’s really cool though, sometimes I just wanna smack some of those passangers.. like. You idiots! give these guys a break. See unlike Air Canada employees, the employees on the show are actually nice to people. I love the late comers the most. The ones who get bumped off flights cause they’re like 20 minutes late. This one girl.. pretty cute, but seriously itchy.. she was cussing up this check-in guy cause she was late for her flight, which already left. I mean, yeah, I’ll give it to her that the people on the phone told her she can make a flight if she comes in at a certain time, but she really thinks that she can go through check-in security, and customs (if need be) to make her flight in 20 minutes? Really now. How stupid can you be. Why was she late for her first flight in the first place?
People have some serious issues. I mean, comon! What happened to decency, and manners.. and basic niceness.. You don’t have to treat someone like crap, hey even if it’s their fault but most of all if it’s yours. Sometimes I wish I’d been at the airport so I can smack that idiot, screaming at a flight attendant for no reason.
Meh, Air Canada’s a different story tho.. I think they take the niceness of Canadians for granted and think they can treat us like crap. After my last flight with them I swore I wouldn’t fly Air Canada again.. but yeah.. times change. But I’m still not expecting much from them. Last time I flew with them, bout 3 months ago, I somehow became a standby passenger, which meant that I was given my seat like 20 minutes before we boarded, which meant that I sat smack down in the middle of the airplane. there was a seat to my left, an aisle, then two seats… And same thing on my right.. All I wanted to do was get a drink and sleep for 4 hours.. I got the drink, but no sleep. Not only that the employees were itchy themselves… Gah, I dun even wanna… bleh.
On a more pleasant subject.. West Jet.. Yeah that’s the way to go. Ok so they’re basically.. cheap. In terms of like.. whatever, it’s like WestJet’s a Kia, while Air Canada’s a Jag.. But man, they really make up for it. When you’re a “guest” things really change. Hmm.. Ok like for example, I was coming home for Christmas break just last December. And see, there was a ferry strike in BC, so we couldn’t even leave the island where my school is. so what I ended up having to do was taking a float plane from the island to Vancouver Airport. It was a 15 minute flight, and we were at Vancouver International at like… 8AM.. Problem is my flight wasn’t till 9PM that night. Yeh. And ofcourse I had ALOT of stuff with me, plus I’m being seriously stingy, what having spent most of my savings and all. So I really couldn’t do much anything else but sit at the airport and wait. Ok so well I did have some friends with me, but yeah, that was about it. We were all stuck for 12 hours. Well after about 5 hours or so of waiting, I was like.. screw it, I’m going to the counter to see if I can change my flight. See this is a problem cause I bought my ticket on a seat sale.. so my ticket was actually 50 bucks cheaper than it would have been if I bought it a regular price when I bought it, and it was actually like 150 bucks cheaper if I had bought it on regular price right then. So I was looking at minimum 50 dollars plus 25 service charge… Max 175. Remember what I said about being stingy? But hey guess what. the lady at the counter doesn’t even charge me the 25 dollar service charge.. I was a standby passenger but I still got a window seat.. And to top it all off, I was home at 11PM that night, istead of 6AM the next day like I originally planned.. See they’re awesome. But that’s not all…
Now going back to school after Christmas Break, here’s what happened. I was early for my flight liek I usually am.. it was like.. an hour before my flight. But the line was massive. See WestJet has no status yet in Toronto, so they have like 4 dinky counters while Air Canada gets their own terminal. But anyway.. The line was looong. It was just the holiday rush I guess, plus I think it was snowing. So yeah, alot of people were delayed and stuff.. Plus I think one of their flight was cancelled to. So generally it was just a screwed up day altogether. But yeah, the line was so long I finally get to the counter 5 minutes before my flight was scheduled to depart. And you that would be such a messed up situation, but not for WestJet… back to the super niceness, decent people who treat me like a guest, they put me on another flight quick, which actually arrives in Vancouver earlier than my original flight. Again no charge no hassle… the lady did it with a smile. I was like freaking out tho cause there was like 20 minutes before that flight left, and I still had to go through security and run my butt down to the faar dinky gates that Toronto Person gives WestJet.. but guess again… the gate I was suppsoed to be at was right behind the security check. I got in with just enuf time to buy some Tim Hortons, and be like the 2nd last person to get in the plane.
If that line that they had was handled by Air Canada, it woulda taken me 4 hours to get through. But not West Jet…
Meh, enuf with singing their praises… After all I *am* flying another airline. But no worries, WestJet, I still got lots of flights ahead of me.. I’ll be back soon enuf.
Peace.