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Airlines deny boarding to passengers from wild Sunwing party flight to Mexico

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> St-Pierre said she won the free trip in a contest on Instagram and had never previously heard of the organizer, who identifies himself on social media as James William Awad. “I was expecting a relaxing week, where I was going to be careful,” she said. “But this turns out to be an expensive trip for something that was supposed to be free.”

I don't like the idea of an airline stranding people in a foreign country, and I really don't like that the prime minister directly mocked those people, but going on a "free" trip you "won" on instagram organized by someone you have never even heard of is pretty idiotic.

I think you should read more on what happened in the plane going there, they are getting what they deserve. There is a reason the police were waiting for them at the airport when they got back to Montreal!

Yeah Prime Minister Trudeau shouldn't have even commented, it was a private flight, who cares... they weren't wearing masks it's not like they were wearing blackface, oh wait.

> I don't like the idea of an airline stranding people in a foreign country

If you're going to break a number of laws on a flight, I don't think it's terribly surprising that the same business, or other airlines, might decline to do business with you in the future.

Ultimately, these are private enterprises and you're not entitled to your preferred mode of transportation for a return trip to Canada. It would be a lot more inconvenient to have to bus or rent a car to drive all the way back, but if you're going to break a bunch of laws the consequences may, unsurprisingly, be inconvenient.

Looks like it made wikipedia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841411

Uh so I guess a bunch of Canadian reality tv stars charted a jet to Mexico, and posted on their socials about partying on the plane. Gasps.

it's the context. Like last year when a bunch of american citizens visited their federal government assembly building and took pictures.

That's an awful comparison, 5 people were killed at the capitol riot and caused tens of millions of dollars in damages... This was a nothing-burger of a story until the manufactured outrage machine spun up & the PM chimed in.

>5 people were killed at the capitol riot

One person died violently, an unarmed rioter who was shot by Capitol Police after the force finally decided to do the job they were trained and armed for, after letting 150 idiots cause chaos for far too long.

Four other rioters died of heart attacks and so forth around the time of the riot, not violently.

And before you say "Didn't a bunch of police officers get killed?", no. Officer Sicknick died of a stroke the day after the riot, but he was not hit by a fire extinguisher, or exposed to bear spray. His autopsy specifically checked for and ruled out such causes for the stroke.

Airlines really frustrate me when they behave this way, yet see no problem packing 180 people into an aluminum cylinder, as if that magically makes us all ok. I can't tell if this is just the airlines covering themselves from liability, or a vocal group within the industry demanding it.

They need competitions and lots of lawsuit. This is why people needs to find every opportunities to sue. And also individuals working there. They will only response to money...or in this case lost of it. Anything else doesn't matter.

Some are already getting cancelled

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/01/06/des-fetards-con...

The lesson here is not that chartered party flights are evil, but that posting about it on social media is stupid.

Why does this belong on HN?

Short answer: because people upvote it. Long answer: because it shows the ubiquity and the power of technology in our lives. They were busted because someone had the stupidity of sharing the video on social media. They were blacklisted by other Canadian airlines flying to/from Mexico probably after the flight manifest was shared with them by Sunwing. Also, now this story is probably going to rank higher than any other press about them in Google.

I am not saying what they did is good. In fact all of the Canada, going through the brutal Omicron wave right now, is jumping on the scolding and memefication train. But this is straight up Black Mirror material.

The flight manifest was not shared. Some people on the flight managed to fly back on other airlines because their name wasn't known at the time.

https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/76df4977-b64c-4d7b-aca9-4ff...

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