Winnipeg

Air Canada, what a class act. We purchased business class tickets. At the time of purchase, they were flying a Dash aircraft with only economy. In the interim, they changed to a larger CR-J jet with business class. Do you think they put us in our class of service? No. They maintained we didn't pay for business on that leg and moved us back in the airplane! Look at all the empty seats up front.

The leg is less than a half hour. Our ticketing clearly indicates business class. Two telephone agents, the check-in people, and the gate supervisor all refuse to do the right thing. How is this for optics. This picture is taken from our economy "business class seat". Twelve seats in business class and ONLY TWO occupied. The damn fools could have bumped us up months ago and sold two more seats in the sold-out economy class.

Winnipeg is like Minneapolis. Because its cold there, there are heated elevated walkways connecting the buildings of downtown. We tour downtown by the elevated walkway. 

Along the way we have lunch at one brewery and drinks at another.

It is snowing in Winnipeg. We don't often see someone using a snow brush in Adelaide. We must transfer to an airport hotel picked by the tour provider.

We meet our tour provider, Frontiers North at 2100 for information related to our early morning departure. A group of snowplows working together are plowing the runways and taxi ways. Mobile de-icing machines are busy de-icing aircraft.

A line of five plows working taxi ways outside of our room.