Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: ice storm

This shot is another departure board on the 22nd, but continuing with my story.... the problems didn't end on on the 22nd, but dragged into the 23rd. I had to pay for the second night in the hotel, as the line for vouchers stretched through the airport. For that matter, my flight was cancelled twice, first the original one from Toronto to Syracuse, then the replacement for it (as Air Georgia cancelled everything for two days), which wasn't really a replacement. This was because passengers from the cancelled flights were crammed onto later flights that were already scheduled, which resulted in most being bumped off. At no time did I receive any notification of the cancelled flights, as the airline told my family instead of me, and my family called me. By the time I was bumped to the third flight, I gave up, as it was scheduled to fly a day before Christmas Eve, with three days' worth of passengers scheduled to fly on one 19-seat Beechcraft 1900.

I offered to briefly describe my ordeal in Toronto earlier, but I'm so sick of talking about it that I'm not going to get into much detail here. Basically, as you can see, the vast majority of cancellations during the December 2013 ice storm were Air Canada flights (note that Jazz is an Air Canada brand, and that Air Georgia is an Air Canada contractor). The ice storm brought down trees around Ontario (if you haven't seen an ice storm, the ice attaches to trees and powerlines, and the weight brings them down), and the roads were dangerous for the first night. The airport continued to operate quite smoothly given everything....if you weren't an Air Canada passenger. Not only did Air Canada fail to fly many of their flights, opting for cancellations rather than delays, but no replacements were offered, at least to me, whether air, rail, or bus. We were able to get a free hotel the first night (the 21st-22nd), but the second night was another story.