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Why holiday travel chaos is the new normal

The Decibel

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What Happened to Sunwing?

Sunwing, like all the other airlines, faced heavy snow and cold in its Canadian airports. Some of their customers were left at sun destinations for several days without flights home. Sunwing is a smaller airline. They don't have the backup that WestJet or Air Canada does. Their CEO said their bid to hire temporary foreign worker pilots was rejected by Ottawa earlier in December so they were 63 pilots short.

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