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  Andrew 5:45 AM on September 6, 2006 Permalink
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  Jet Lag Redux 

  Apologies for the lack of updates from my Shanghai trip. It seems that this past Sunday night I was sent into jet lag remission.

  It’s the weirdest thing; I thought I had it under control, with naps and sleep carefully metered out in four to six-hour increments to get me back on Eastern Standard Time. It’s as if my body decided that, having spent a week back in Toronto it was now time to return to Asia, and adjusted my internal clock accordingly.

  Or maybe it was the siren call of mediocre guy movies on cable—first Backdraft then The Negotiator—which kept me up all Sunday night so I could sleep through most of Labour Day. At any rate, it’s really making it hard to get anything done. I have another audition for The Spiderwick Chronicles this afternoon and the offer of an extended Second City gig to mull over, and being up all night in an only semi-lucid state doesn’t exactly put me in the best frame of mind…

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    Ed Miller 11:36 AM on September 6, 2006 Permalink | Reply

    AC:
    Any tips for a rookie traveller about fighting jet lag both ways? I’m off to Malaysia in a few weeks, and I’ve never travelled more than 5-6 time zones, so the 12-hour difference will be a new experience.
    I can’t sleep on a plane, and I’m only going for 7 days, just to make things interesting.

    Ed

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    Andrew Currie 2:46 PM on September 6, 2006 Permalink | Reply

    Ed, while I clearly haven’t mastered the art of returning to one’s home time zone—for me travelling west to east has always been the killer—let me say that it’s always been worth it!

    As for the plane ride, try Gravol or bring a good book. And make sure you choose the right seat:

    http://www.seatguru.com/

    Have fun in Malaysia!
    
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  Andrew 1:53 PM on August 20, 2006 Permalink
  Tags: Air Canada ( 5 ), Airlines, Asia ( 59 ), China ( 27 ), Shanghai ( 13 )   

  Non-Stop According to Air Canada 

  

  Greetings from Vancouver. Yes, Vancouver.

  How can you have an hour stop-over in Vancouver on a non-stop flight between Toronto and Shanghai? Ask Air Canada, not me!

  I’d be a lot more upset, but the espresso and cookies in the lounge here are quite tasty—way better than the Harvey’s slop I had to pay for on the flight here…
  

   
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  Andrew 9:43 AM on April 9, 2006 Permalink
  Tags: Air Canada ( 5 ), Airlines, Fail ( 20 )   

  Air Canada Livery: From Bad to Worse 

  Nothing earth-shattering today, just another rant about Air Canada, the airline I’m pretty much stuck with until I move to another country…

  

  If you’ve seen my Bermuda photos on Flickr then you know I’m not too happy with Air Canada’s new paint scheme. Seriously, that tail fin makes this Airbus look like a cheap after-dinner mint!

  And now I hear that their paint scheme is going from bad to worse—check out this pic from Airliners.net:

  

  The idea behind the bare aluminum finish is that it saves weight and therefore increases the fuel efficiency of the aircraft. But does Air Canada pass on the savings to their passengers? Hell no, we’re still paying the same fuel surcharges that were conveniently introduced right after the start of the Iraqi war.

  Now I know what you’re thinking: “Who cares about how the plane looks on the outside if you’re going to be spending ninety-nine percent of your time on the inside?”

  Well, consider this scenario: Your Air Canada flight pulls into its berth at a swanky international airport and all the other passengers in other aircraft, along with the ground crew and your loved ones waiting for you in the terminal shake their heads in unison and say: “Poor Canada, they can’t even afford to paint their own airplanes. It must be a pretty crappy place to live or visit…”

   
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  Andrew 10:57 PM on August 10, 2005 Permalink
  Tags: Air Canada ( 5 ), Airlines, Moblog ( 90 )   

  Air Canada Sucks Ass! 

  

  So I’m in the Maple Leaf Lounge in the infield Terminal at Pearson… Holy crap is it ever bad!

  After the twenty-minute bus ride to get here, I’m now surrounded on all sides by an obnoxious family whose mother is trying to administer ear medicine. The beer taps serve nothing but foam (see photo) and all they’ve got to eat are the same sad pretzels they serve on board in economy.

  Yeah I know, I promised to never complain about Pearson again… But Air Canada doesn’t count!

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    Lord Wat 12:03 PM on August 11, 2005 Permalink | Reply

    Why is your beer pink?

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    Andrew Currie 11:17 PM on August 11, 2005 Permalink | Reply

    Ack, they fed me raspberry wheat beer! Bastards!!!

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    Ted 2:30 AM on August 15, 2005 Permalink | Reply

    racism also sucks in canada too when new comers came here and life also so hard, capitalism, I don’t know were to go from here but I like to live this nasty place to better place where as professional artist and to show my talent and far from nasty racism canadian.

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    Andrew Currie 10:48 AM on August 16, 2005 Permalink | Reply

    Um, ok then…

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    Ralph 6:58 PM on August 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

    My big mistake, I whilstled at the stewardess who was ignoring me for a past complaint about being late. Air Cananda called the police, and I was escorted off the plane by 5 Calgary policemen, who talked to me for 10 minutes and let me go. Air Canada standed me in Calgary at midnight on Friday, and would not let me on the plane to Regina. Rule 1. What assholes.

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  Andrew 11:47 PM on August 2, 2005 Permalink
  Tags: Airlines, Airports ( 3 )   

  50 Seconds 

  

  As I was picking up some laundry this afternoon I heard about the Air France Airbus crash-landing at Pearson Airport. I immediately rushed home and turned on the TV; seeing the burning wreckage I immediately thought “how could anyone survive that?”—but somehow, miraculously, they all did.

  You’ll be reading elsewhere that the passengers managed to escape the aircraft before the flames began, but what floored me was hearing that emergency crews were at the scene between forty and fifty seconds after the plane came to a stop!

  I’ll never complain about anything at Pearson again. Promise.

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    Ed Miller 10:20 AM on August 4, 2005 Permalink | Reply

    AC:

    The Star reports that the Boston and Dallas fire depts are sending people up to study how Peel, York, and Toronto reacted to the crash. It’s reassuring to know that we have such a good team here.

    Ed