Tips for travelling on one of the busiest long weekends of the year in Ottawa

It’s one of many busiest weekends of the yr for journey, and specialists say you’ll wish to pack your persistence for those who’re heading out on the highway or to the airport.

Visitors snarls, flight delays, and even misplaced baggage could possibly be a risk.

“It’s the primary summer season I’ve been dwelling to Newfoundland in three years so I’m fairly grateful and fairly excited,” stated Sonya Billard, who was travelling by way of the Ottawa Worldwide Airport on Sunday.

Amber McCabour’s household can be flying for the primary time because the pandemic.

“It was a direct flight there and we acquired delayed nearly six hours which sadly was not perfect,” McCabour stated, describing the look ahead to the flight to Halifax.

Whereas delays and cancellations stay a risk, travellers are additionally remaining aware of the chance of misplaced or delayed baggage. A number of the nation’s greatest airport terminals have been crammed with baggage that was delayed this summer season.

It’s why some are selecting to not examine a bag.

Journey skilled, Elliot Finkelmann, advises writing your telephone quantity or electronic mail on the outside of your baggage within the occasion that it’s misplaced or delayed, to assist pace up the method.

In case your bag is misplaced, Air Passenger Rights advocate Gabor Lukacs says you may take motion.

“If their bag doesn’t arrive with them, then the airline is liable as much as $2,300 Canadian per passenger for interim bills that they happen,” stated Lukacs.

Specialists say different methods to make sure a clean journey embody checking in early, avoiding tight layovers, and having paper back-ups of all your documentation.