I love Air Canada
Published: Jun 11, 2026
Every so often, there is a story in the news about some absurd air travel mishap. Surprisingly frequently, it is about Air Canada.
To illustrate:
- Air Canada customers kicked off plane for refusing vomit-covered seat
- An Air Canada pilot mistook the planet Venus for an oncoming plane and dove, injuring 16
- An Air Canada captain allegedly flew over 900 flights across 17 years without a valid pilot's licence
- Air Canada denied boarding to a $4.5M cello with its own confirmed seat, cancelling a sold-out recital
- Air Canada baggage handlers caught on video tossing luggage off a six-metre staircase
- Air Canada abandoned a 14-year-old at Toronto airport after cancelling her flight
- An Air Canada plane taxied for takeoff with a ground worker trapped inside the cargo hold, freed only after passengers heard him banging
- Air Canada told a tribunal its own chatbot was "a separate legal entity responsible for its own actions"
- An Air Canada passenger fell asleep and woke up alone on a dark, locked, empty plane parked for the night
- Passenger forced to drag himself off Air Canada flight after airline failed to provide wheelchair assistance