Air Labrador Saves The Day
The day that we left for the Lower North Shore, the biggest blizzard of the year was starting to move towards the East Coast. As we left Montreal, we were told that it was very windy on the Lower North Shore, and that we might get stuck in Sept Iles. That prediction unfortunately turned out to be correct, and we ended up spending that night in Sept Iles. Weather is always a concern whenever we fly to the Coast, but knowing that there was a major blizzard coming our way, got us concerned that we would end up spending the whole week-end in Sept Iles. We only had one week of vacation, so we did not want to spend it in a hotel room waiting to see when we would be able to leave.
The next morning we found out that things were really backed up because of the windy conditions, but were very glad to hear from Lloyd Jones that Air Labrador was bringing in a second flight from Saint John’s NFLD. This additional flight cleared up the backlog, and got us back to La Tabatiere mid afternoon.
I understand that there is not much that can be done about the weather, but we were very grateful for the extra effort that Air Labrador made to get everyone home. They definitely do a great job of operating regular flights to this remote region, and on top of that, they are the only airline that I know of that still serves sandwiches on their flights.
Tags: air labrador, Lower North Shore, Sept Iles