Sleeping passenger left on Air Canada plane after flight.

[BruSan]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

I don’t know how anyone could sleep through an airplane landing? I can’t think of anytime that the plane didn’t hit the runway hard, and slowing down to a stop was always another issue of being tossed around in my seat.

Oh, I can readily relate to falling asleep part on a short flight. Flying routinely out of Toronto on Monday back on Friday on a short RapidAire (Air Canada between Toronto and Montreal) for weeks at a time for years was common for me taking a full committee of 12 others with me. It became a running joke that one of them be assigned to make sure I was awake upon landing as I usually fell asleep prior to push-back and slept the entire flight - landing and all.

Some people may have an auto compensation system (me) to fall asleep to enable tolerating the cattle call, shuffle like lemmings on board, jockeying for the space in the overhead bins somewhere near your seat to then jam yourself into too small seats and sit there like a stuffed turkey in an overheated aircraft waiting for the door to close and get rolling.

Modern day airline flights of the type that Wardair were the pinnacle of are OVER. Now, they're only slightly less aggravating than your average root canal being done simultaneously with a colonoscopy.

[ChevySpoons]

Originally Posted by BruSan

Oh, I can readily relate to falling asleep part on a short flight.

I can relate also. I fell asleep on a flight between Edmonton and Calgary recently. No more than an hour flight (if that), but when I awoke and checked my watch, it was a half-hour later, and we were on approach to Calgary.

Modern day airline flights of the type that Wardair were the pinnacle of are OVER. Now, they're only slightly less aggravating than your average root canal being done simultaneously with a colonoscopy.

There's a reason that I fly business class in North America, and this is it. No extra fees for baggage, no reheated Swiss Chalet or Mr. Sub or Tim Hortons or whatever they're offerring for food today at an outrageous price, no $7-plus-tax domestic swill beer, no $3.50 headphones. I enjoy the free food and booze in the Air Canada business-class-only lounge, a larger seat on board, and a flight attendant who addresses me by name, and asks what my cocktail order is.

It is possible to fly something that is not a root canal and a colonoscopy rolled into one, but if you want the cheapest flight, you're going to get both.

[SeaOfGrass]

Originally Posted by KimNChicago

Not discounting the experience she had, but oh how I wish I could sleep that soundly!

No kidding!

Originally Posted by Ceece

Whenever you have people gathered in a place there are always procedures to make sure everyone is out before locking up. Stores, theaters, funeral homes, schools, etc. If people are in a place, it's someone job to make sure they are all out at the end. Someone didn't do their job correctly.

My thoughts, too. They MUST do a once-thru at the end. Human error, is all.

[StcLurker]

I'm thinking if the cockpit was open I would just start flipping switches, something is bound to light up or turn on at some point and get some attention

[MyTarge13]

I just had some interesting experiences with Air Canada and would not recommend them as an airline. However, one thing I that impressed me was that every staff member, either on board or at the kiosks, were very professional and always trying to help. I can not imagine any of the Air Canada people I interacted with leaving someone sleeping on a plane.