Holiday travel

Via Rail executives are set to address a federal committee Thursday about the delays that plagued travellers over the holidays. Earlier this month, the Crown corporation apologized for the widespread delays passengers saw between Dec.…

More airline competition and better protections for passengers will help Canada avoid the “catastrophe” experienced by travellers during the winter holiday season, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says. Speaking to Global News in…

Parliamentarians are meeting on Monday afternoon to discuss whether to open a study into the travel fiasco that affected Canadians over the winter holiday period. The standing committee on transport, infrastructure and communities is…

A Pointe-Claire, Que., family feels short-changed and lied to by Sunwing after their teenager’s flight was turned back to Montreal and a day later, cancelled. Jesse Massabuau, 14, was all packed up and excited to head to Miami and…

As hundreds of Canadians scramble to get home after their Sunwing flights from Mexico were cancelled last week, a passengers’ rights advocate says stranded travellers should consider legal action if they aren’t compensated by the…

A winter storm that meteorologists have termed a “bomb cyclone” continued to wreak havoc throughout the country early Friday, creating more flight cancellations in what officials anticipated would be another brutal day of holiday travel.…

Holiday travelers may find getting to their destination Thursday and the rest of the week as frightful as much of the country’s weather. Frigid temperatures and severe storms dotted much of the country’s northern region, and airlines were…

If you had to sum up Sicily in just a few words, it’s an island of extremes. Rocky volcanic coastlines give way to white sandy beaches. Crumbling architectural treasures of the ancient world sit next to some of the most theatrical and…

A year after omicron began its assault on humanity, the ever-morphing coronavirus mutant drove COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just as Americans gathered for Thanksgiving. It was a prelude to a wave that experts expect to soon…

NEW YORK -- Throngs of spectators lined the streets of New York on Thursday as colorful, high-flying balloons help usher in the holiday season at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.Mostly sunny skies and a slight breeze are forecast for the…