Cancelled Flights Make for Rough Holiday Season for Many Canadian Travellers

The 4-year-old son of Jared Ragel is asleep on a suitcase at the Cancun airport on Dec. 21, 2022, after delayed flights stranded hundreds of Canadians. Courtesy of Jared Regel

Jared Regel was one of hundreds of Canadians stuck in Mexico over the holiday season after Sunwing, a discount airline, cancelled their flights home.

Some passengers were moved from hotel to hotel, some were forced to sleep overnight in a hotel lobby or at the airport, and others eventually bought tickets on other airlines to make it home for the holidays.