An Edmonton woman visiting Halifax says she was removed from an Air Canada flight after the crew wrongly assumed she had a contagious disease. On Sunday evening, an Air Canada flight between Halifax and Toronto was delayed from 6:25 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday, which the airline says was because "a passenger was believed to have a transmissible skin disease." Lehman stayed in Halifax overnight and boarded another Air Canada flight the day after being removed from the flight. "But if my English is not perfect, Air Canada is bilingual. Air Canada said it could not elaborate on Lehman's case.

Source: CBC News April 24, 2018 15:00 UTC