@Canageek Not much but the one booked ticket in my future is for a conference in Montreal in June, and AC had the best schedule

Also the best way to get to Tokyo from here turned out to be "drive to Vancouver and fly on Air Canada"

@memnus Which is weird, as my parents always drove down to Detroit and flew from there as it was usually upwards of 30% less.

Air Canada is Canada's worst airline. Westjet is a lot better, and usually cheaper, which when you are me is really important.

WHICH REMINDS ME I NEED TO GET TICKETS DAMMIT.

@Canageek at the risk of applying national stereotypes to corporations, keep in mind that what I have to compare "Canada's worst airline" to is ... all of the US airlines.

@memnus Well, I've flown on...United and Delta, and I'd say they are about the same as Air Canada? But it has been a LONG time since I flew Air Canada. We had a couple years in a row of bad stuff and gave up with them. Once our flight was delayed like, 10 hours, and they lost our luggage once...

Westjet we've used ever since without a problem, I think they lost my luggage once they brought it to me at work.

Plus they give their employees stock options.

@Canageek Yeah, I fly Alaska or JetBlue when at all possible, and as long as I stick to the west coast (or large cities to the east) I can get away with it. International gets a lot harder, though.

Also I still have to update my passport, that will be "fun"

@memnus Ug, at least you don't have to deal with the shitshown when Ontario added an X gender option, without making sure Transport Canada was OK with that. Transport Canada's ID guidelines still said there needed to be M or F on the ID.

I think Transport Canada changed their guidelines, but that is the sort of thing you governments should work out ahead of time.

@Canageek Oh jeeze, my state has X available on birth certificates but not driver's licenses, which has gotta be a mess already. I wasn't born here and decided not to hold out for that to get ported between systems.

@memnus @Canageek When/for what are you going to Tokyo?

@DialMforMara @Canageek last fall, for a conference. It's looking like I won't get to repeat that, sadly.

@Canageek @memnus hey, Air Canada made my trip up to Comox last Christmas amazingly convenient.

@DialMforMara @memnus But so does Westjet, and they smile at you and give you more legroom!

@Zoonie Exhausting? Like how is this a big deal? How many more organizations am I going to have to do this for? Like seriously I am changing two letters in my middle name why is this such a big deal??

@memnus
What's the deadline?

@midi_mac three days before my flight to Montreal. Air Canada wants the new one.