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Quebec City has an airport. The airport code you type in to search engines would be YQB. It has good connections to a number of major Canadian cities a few flights to the US and France. That said it is not a major airport. If you don't find anything that works from their. The next closest airport is Montreal (YUL). There a couple of trains daily between Quebec City and Montreal. Quebec City is a historically significant city, that is very unique. Well worth spending a day or two their if you have the time. Montreal is also a neat city to visit as well.

Looks like they came to a deal. So no strike at this point. The union membership is expected to vote on the deal later this month.

After security Canadian airports are divided into three zones. Domestic, Trasnborder and International. Transborder is used for US flights where the pasanger pre-clears US board control in Canada. International is used for non-Canadian or non-US flights. Appropriate check in gates are located before security in the three areas, but they are all in the same building. If you flight goes direct from Montreal to the US, then select Transborder. If your making a connection at another airport in Canada, select domestic.

I would agree with that. The airport your departing from is not particularly busy. Traditionally, the check in agent has had to scan your passport and enter some extra information at check in. Today a lot of that is captured at online check-in for most people. Depends on the airline if they do the passport check in at your first flight or when connecting internationally. This is a 5 minute activity. The international flight is usually on a much larger aircraft so they may start boarding a bit earlier. That said, if you board towards the end of the process that is not a big deal either.

With kids, I would pick the train over a bus. It is 12 hour train ride from Union Station to Pen Station.

They have been around for decades. When they were founded in the 1940s they were partially owned by Pan-am in the US. Continental was also a major owner for a time. Well established airline. They are part of star alliance, so any reward points you may earn can be credit to other star airlines, including United. If your use to United, Delta or American your not going to find them all that different.

Cruise terminal is in downtown Vancouver. The Pan Pacific Hotel in the terminal building itself. Another across the street. Likely around 6-7 within 2-3 blocks of the terminal. Generally the hotels in the downtown core are quite a bit more expensive than in Richmond (where the airport is).

I would buy the two one-ways. The rules for calculating the fares are complex and you should not be surprised to see some minor differences.

For an international overseas flight like that I would not worry about that. There is usually only one flight per day on most international routes. The widebody aircraft on these types of route over a 24 hour period usually only operate two flights. Canada overseas and then back again.

Looks like they have a tentative deal. We will have to see how quickly they get their schedule back to normal.

Southwest is a different type of airline. They try to have a simpler operation, with the goal of keeping costs down. They have limited international operations and don't have the infrastructure to interline with other airlines. If you sticking to the US they are fine. If your going to Europe, they are just not an option. United, Delta, American and their foreign partners (like TAP Air Portugal) have much more complex computer systems, and associated airport infrastructure to transfer passengers and bags between partners. For example if you book the TAP offering, when you check in in Florida for your flight, United will issue you boarding pass for both the United and TAP leg. United will also check you bags all the way to Rome. When you come back from Rome, TAP will issue your TAP and United boarding pass as well as tag your bags all the way through. If something happens and you miss your connection, the two airlines will take responsibility for getting you to your final destination.

Don't know how it compare to the other routes. I have been on the Newark-Vancouver flight a number of times where a good percentage of people are connecting onward to Australia from Vancouver. Canada, US and most European countries have banned Russian airlines from their airspace. In return Russia has banned them from Russian airspace. If your on Air Canada or a western airline your guaranteed your not flying over Russia. An airlines like Cathy Pacific being a Chinese airline is allowed to fly over Russia. The likelihood of an emergency landing is extremely remote, however given the state of the world today, Even through it is remote, given the current situation in the world, if I can easily avoid a flight over that part of the world I would.

Not surprising. There are three main alliances. Star Alliance, OneWorld and Skyteam. American, Alaska and BA are part of OneWorld. Delta and Air France/KLM are in Skyteam. Star Alliance has United, Air Canada, Lufthansa Group and TAP. (Left out some of the other smaller airlines that are also in the three aliances). When it comes to Star, United Lufthansa and Air Canada also profit-share between North American and Euope. TAP while still a member with Star is not a part of the profit-sharing agreement so they establish their pricing independently. They are still part of the same alliance and have close working arrangement with the other alliance members. Not surprised they are priced more aggressively on sometimes. If your a member of the United loyalty program you can credit the miles you earn on TAP to the United program. Some of the discounted fares that cruse lines have access to and some of the rock bottom fares don't have miles associated with them.

If your arrival time was over 3 hours you may qualify for compensation depending on the cause. It is around $400 CDN per person. Here is the link to put in a claim. https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/home/fly/flight-information/flight-disruptions.html?acid=EXT:SEM:TD+Aeroplan+Performance+Max+EN::::&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw34qzBhBmEiwAOUQcF0woFtHpxAPoLxpuHduZ4BvigpCrO_dKF4FHUtebHyRNEmJX13_huRoCgA8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#/delayed

Nice hotel and nice area. I think you make a good choice. As an aside, Howard Hughes and his entourage ended up taking over the top two floors for six months less one day. He would have stayed longer but over six months the Canadian government would want to start to tax him.