![]() Learning from Tuesday's chaos, the airport brought in extra staff to help the airlines. The jam at Pearson resulted in cancellations and delays in several cities including Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal. "If those flights don't go out, it causes delays from coast to coast." "Also, if Winnipeg slows down for two hours it doesn't have the implications and the ripple effect right across the country as it does at Pearson, especially for morning start-up, which is one of our busiest times of day," Armstrong said. Airports in cities such as Winnipeg, he said, are better prepared because they deal with extreme cold more often. GTAA Communications Director Scott Armstrong told CTV News Channel that part of the problem is Toronto isn't used to cold weather. Many passengers are asking why such a large airport was unable to handle the conditions, considering that smaller airports remained fully operational. "The extreme weather has resulted in cancellations that we haven't seen in a very long time." "We haven't seen something like this in almost 15 years," Daghstani said. Long lines snaked through Pearson International Airport as passengers waited hours to rebook flights, get hotel vouchers and claim luggage. "We know that the airlines are working to rebook a significant number of passengers who have missed or cancelled flights," she said. "This could mean cancellations or delays." "There have been adjustments to the schedules which resulted in a 50 per cent reduction," Shereen Daghstani of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority told CTV's Canada AM. Although the airport is now "fully open and operational," an airport official says, due to the backlog, airlines have been encouraged to reduce operations until they catch up. More than 600 flights were cancelled during a "ground stop" Tuesday morning, when the temperature felt like -40 C with wind chill. "Toronto is such an important node that when things go wrong there, they go catastrophically wrong." "We've had weather emergencies before, but I don't think anything like this that has affected the whole continent all at once," Jeanes said. "I think probably the time that you could compare it to is the chaos after 9-11, when you had hundreds of aircraft diverted to Pearson and to other airports across Canada," Transport Action Canada President David Jeanes told CTV News Channel. On Wednesday, the airport cancelled more than 240 arrivals and 180 departures. ![]() The cold weather is still impacting air travel, mainly because of a backlog caused by hundreds of flight cancellations on Tuesday. ![]() New dates will go on sale to the public on Tue 8 Jul, 10am.Thousands remain grounded at Pearson International Airport as a result of the deep freeze gripping much of Canada and the United States. Ticket holders who would like a refund will need to call Ticket Office on 01273 709709 by Fri 11 Jul. The Ticket Office is open until 6pm on Fri 4 Jul, 10am-5pm on Sat 5 Jul, and 10am-6pm on Mon 7 Jul. Ticket holders for the postponed performance on Thu 3 Jul who wish to rebook will need to call Ticket Office on 01273 709709 before Tue 8 Jul in order to keep their allocated seats. There will be an additional performance on Thu 24 July, 8pm. Please note that this event has been postponed until Wed 23 Jul, 8pm. Kick-ass in all the right ways.’ ★★★★★ Time Out ‘Hilarious, heart-breaking, troubling and inspirational. In typically screwball and humorous fashion, Bryony begs the question: what does it really take to be a Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model for a child of the 21st century? Winner of a clutch of awards at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013, including 3 Weeks Editors Award and Fringe Review Outstanding Achievement Award, Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model is set in a fantasy land far from our own, where lines are drawn in the sand, girls become knights, eyeballs are gouged, wars are waged and people sell their souls. In an audacious, provocative protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit, award-winning artist Bryony Kimmings (Sex Idiot, 7 Day Drunk) and her nine-year-old niece Taylor decided to play the global tween machine at its own game by inventing dinosaur-loving, bike riding, tuna pasta-eating, alternative pop star Catherine Bennett.
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