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Since WestJet seems to be functioning, I'm thinking of cancelling my other flight for a full refund right after checking in. I'm not pleased with WestJet right now, but really flying in general has become a damnable nuisance. I can't be the only one who has come to regard flying as nothing more than a necessary evil, and the airlines have themselves to thank for that negative impression.

Amazon sells those loops of wire in batches of a few dozen. I have a whole package of them here; I'd happily give you one if I could.

WestJet hasn't sent me any e-mail, despite knowing how to reach me. I'm glad that the strike seems to have been averted, but are we out of the woods yet? WestJet cancelled more than 200 flights yesterday and today. Probably everything will be in order in time for my flight a few days from now, but for the moment I am not going to cancel my refundable ticket on another airline.

One thing that I shall say as a lawyer who is familiar with the relevant legislation: the «offer» to let the customer cancel the ticket without charge isn't much of an «offer» at all. That's the least that WestJet must do. If you ask them to cancel your ticket, however, you may let them off the hook for greater obligations. Cancelling the ticket would be a favour to them, rarely one to you.

People almost invariably underestimate my age by 15 years or more: I just look quite young (even though I have my suits made in the style of the 1930s). One fine day, however, the clerk at a Rexall asked me whether I qualified for the senior discount. I asked about the qualifying age and reported with regret that I fell just a couple of years short. I was astonished, however, to have aged more than 15 years in a single day.

You may need to compromise, either by accepting a fixed table by yourself or by accepting any space at a table for multiple people that happens to be available. Perhaps it is too much to ask that several people whom you don't know commit to dining with you at the same time and at the same table every evening for two weeks straight. I'd sooner eat by myself than with a lot of strangers. They might not like my company and I might not like theirs. But since meeting other people and hearing their stories at dinner is important to you, you may wish to be more flexible about the arrangements.

Thank you for the link. Right now the offer to cancel flights without penalty is good only for flights being taken up to 21 May. Mine is a few days later… I shall hold out for now, in hope of taking the flight on WestJet and cancelling the other one for a full refund. I'm not happy with WestJet, but its flight will be more convenient if it takes place on schedule.

The union has given notice of the intention to go on strike on 19 May 2023 at 3:00 Eastern Time. WestJet has responded by locking the pilots out. Just now I booked a fully refundable ticket on a different airline. I cannot accept the risk of a cancellation rooted in WestJet's administrative problems/failures. I wish that I hadn't used WestJet in the first place. Tomorrow I intend to call Westjet and request a refund for the outbound flight.

After all, Gewürztraminer grows splendidly in Brownsville.

When garments begin to wear out, I save them for travel: I wear them a few times and then throw them away. That saves space and weight in my bags for the rest of the trip.

Someone just mentioned that sending four suitcases would have cost US$3000. Unbelievable.

In Canada, the Currency Act, RSC 1985, c C-52, s 8, defines how payments may be legally made. (Among other things, payments in coins are restricted so as not to create a burden, as happened long ago when someone in the US deliberately sought to pay hundreds of dollars' worth of parking tickets in pennies.) In practice, yes, it may be difficult in the short term to compel a store to accept a legal payment in Canadian currency. But refusal of the payment is illegal.

Meaning what? That there are unannounced advantages that one has to track down somehow?

Every purchase that you make entitles the vendor to call you endlessly about further purchases? My, my.

Very few of us maintain a telephone for the purpose of receiving commercial solicitations. I suggest that this person find a more dignified way to make a living than by intruding upon people's privacy.