CANADA VS USA - GOLD MEDAL - Mens Hockey Game

lukin2006

small town beck wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

Only in Canada

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying
Tue Mar 9, 7:33 PM
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.



The airline was forced to delay a flight from Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games because passengers watching the end of gold medal final on airport televisions ignored repeated calls to board.

"We incurred a flight delay for a reason Air Canada had not yet encountered in over 72 years of existence," chief executive Calin Rovinescu told a business gathering.

The Canadian fans were rewarded for their delay, as the nail-biting end to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics saw Canada beat arch-rival United States 3-2 in overtime.

That is awesome. I love this country

Hockey unites this country, it was awesome of air canada to do this.

haffajappa

lukin2006 wrote:

small town beck wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

Only in Canada

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying
Tue Mar 9, 7:33 PM
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.



The airline was forced to delay a flight from Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games because passengers watching the end of gold medal final on airport televisions ignored repeated calls to board.

"We incurred a flight delay for a reason Air Canada had not yet encountered in over 72 years of existence," chief executive Calin Rovinescu told a business gathering.

The Canadian fans were rewarded for their delay, as the nail-biting end to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics saw Canada beat arch-rival United States 3-2 in overtime.

That is awesome. I love this country

Hockey unites this country, it was awesome of air canada to do this.

after they scored, the final final boarding call should have been "attention all passengers of flight AC284... they won the fucking gold now could you please get on the plane. thank you"

Fifthelement

I just keep thinking about those that were good little soldiers and boarded the plane, afraid that it would depart without them. Do you think that they were pissed that they missed the final goal?

blackredyellow

Anyone see this floating around the internets?

Apparently it's real (and pretty funny) Lots of people holding it during play

Drowned Out

haha...that's my hometown...and I can assure you, that would be my potty pattern for that afternoon
That chart, and the plane story are awesome.

But...what kind of canuck would book a flight that day, at that time, anyway?