Expedia was selling $6k one particular-way flight tickets in just Canada

“This need to be illegal.”

This was B.C. resident Wil Yuarata’s reaction after exploring a a person-way flight ticket from Toronto to Vancouver was getting marketed for 10 periods the value it would normally.

When Yuarata’s flight from Toronto Pearson Global Airport to Vancouver Global Airport (YVR) was cancelled owing to the weighty snowfall in B.C., he took to Expedia.ca to seem for new flights when he couldn’t get to his airline for assistance.

What experienced his blood boiling was not the final-minute flight cancellation nor the three-hour wait for WestJet’s customer provider, but a single-way flight tickets being bought for far more than $6,000 within Canada.

A a person-way financial state ticket again property to YVR would have price him $6,620 if he experienced purchased the ticket on Expedia.ca for Dec. 21, he explained.

Yuarata explained to the Richmond Information his “jaw dropped” and he “practically dropped (his) eyeballs” soon after seeing the cost.

“I felt like it should’ve been a criminal offense for airlines to do that and consider to consider advantage of regrettable travellers who are already heading via a ton just striving to get dwelling to their families,” stated Yuarata.

He added the federal government should really action in to reduce airlines from allegedly “having advantage of a situation that is previously negative to commence with.”

An typical plane ticket to fly amongst the two provinces during the vacation year can assortment from $750 to $1,000, not using into account low-price range airways.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Information did a speedy search on the travel web-site and identified the next available 1-way economy ticket from Toronto to Vancouver, with a stop in Ottawa and Calgary, was for Thursday, Dec. 22 and the lowest priced ticket was being bought at $5,243.

A flight on Friday, Dec. 23 and Dec. 24 would cost all over $1,399 and $1,413, respectively.

“I’d rather book a flight to the Maldives for $6,000 and have exciting in paradise,” said Yuarata. “Rather certain some loaded human being out there will not likely have an problem having to pay that much just to get to their destination.”

Yuarata was scheduled to fly again to Vancouver on Dec. 19 with WestJet, but his flight was cancelled and re-booked for the following day before he arrived at Toronto Pearson airport.

The following working day, his rescheduled flight was delayed every hour from 2 to 7:30 p.m. until finally the airline ultimately cancelled his flight a couple minutes in advance of boarding.

“It was a little bit aggravating acquiring to wait around that extended, but I know some people experienced it even worse than me,” he mentioned, introducing folks have been lining up at for responses at the airline kiosks.

“A person rep instructed us that they simply cannot do everything about Vancouver flights yet because at that moment YVR was not accepting any flights at all, and they did not know when the airport would open.”

With that, Yuarata stayed with his relatives a bit for a longer period and appeared for new flight tickets on the internet while trying to get hold of WestJet airlines.

He included the experience was “stressful” simply because he was meant to return to get the job done on Tuesday and desired to be household for the holiday seasons.

Whilst WestJet was capable to re-ebook a return flight on Dec. 25 for Yuarata, he claimed this was not the Xmas he was anticipating this calendar year.