In January, it took Céline Cummings four days to get to Montreal instead of what should have been an easy two-hour direct flight.
A resident of Cap-aux-Meules on Quebec’s Magdalen Islands, Cummings’s flight was delayed for days, ruining the week-long vacation she had booked in Montreal and costing her an extra couple of thousand dollars.
“This is one of many examples of what’s been going on for too long now. We don’t know when we’re going to leave. We don’t know when we’re going to come back. There are people who are missing medical appointments, surgery … We’re kind of stuck,” said