— said the Air Canada text — had been cancelled, a casualty of the federal government’s decision to ground the nation’s Boeing 737-Max planes. Thousands of Canadian passengers saw their travel plans thrown into disarray Wednesday as the country’s two biggest carriers scrambled to cope with Transport Canada’s grounding of over three dozen Boeing 737-Max planes. Air Canada typically has 75 flights per day on its 24 737-Max aircraft, out of 1,600 daily flights and a fleet of 400 planes. Still, those grounded jets ferry 9,000 to 12,000 people daily, said Peter Fitzpatrick, an Air Canada spokesman. The grounded planes represent less than 10 per cent of its fleet of over 170 jets, the company said.

Source: National Post March 14, 2019 00:45 UTC