For the past two months I have been worried about the Air Canada strike.  We were scheduled to fly by Air Canada. My sister and her husband had booked a tour of Scotland and needed to fly Air Canada to get there. Then the Air Canada strike started and their flight to Toronto was cancelled.  Air Canada refunded the money for the flight but paid nothing for the consequential damages such as the coach tour that would follow. It was not cancelled so the tour operator refused to pay back the prepaid air fare. That was a major loss. Needless to say, we wanted to avoid that, but it was beyond our contol.

Then the union representatives advised their members to accept the Air Canada offer, but 91% of those members turned it down. This was 3 days before we were hoping to say bon voyage. Now I was seriously worried.  I was already considering booking a new flight, but then, I found out the union and Air Canada had agreed to send the outstanding issues to arbitration. As a result, the union workers remained on the job. And I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Whew!

I have decided after a personal request or two, to send my travel reports as we travel.  That flies in the face of advice I have been given and have been following on previous trips not to post about them until we are back, so as not to tip off any burglars that our house is open for them to ply their nefarious trades. But now I want to let those miscreants know that our house will be occupied by our son from Edmonton Alberta and he is tough. So beware, burglars will be inviting disaster to befall them if they attempt larceny while we are gone. That worry is gone. But still worries and travel go together like love and marriage.