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lefty
03-10-2010, 01:28 PM
Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying



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Tue Mar 9, 7:33 PM



VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

The airline was forced to delay a flight from Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games because passengers watching the end of gold medal final on airport televisions ignored repeated calls to board.

"We incurred a flight delay for a reason Air Canada had not yet encountered in over 72 years of existence," chief executive Calin Rovinescu told a business gathering.

The Canadian fans were rewarded for their delay, as the nail-biting end to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics saw Canada beat arch-rival United States 3-2 in overtime.

(Reporting by Nicole Mordant; editing by Andre Grenon)

MiamiHeat
03-10-2010, 01:29 PM
lol

that was a great game

BeefAnus II
03-10-2010, 04:06 PM
Fuck canada

lefty
03-10-2010, 06:22 PM
Fuck canada
Still mad at Nash for sodomizing Dallas in 2005 ?

Technique
03-10-2010, 06:26 PM
USA isn't Canada's arch rival... Not even a rival at all actually, people just like to call it that because the two countries are such close neighbors, you'd actually have to win once in a while and without people calling it mini miracles.

Whisky Dog
03-10-2010, 06:35 PM
I like Canada, in almost everything they're the great little brother - they don't expect much, they're polite, and they don't start shit. They know their place and are cool with it.

san antonio spurs
03-10-2010, 09:25 PM
I like Canada, in almost everything they're the great little brother - they don't expect much, they're polite, and they don't start shit. They know their place and are cool with it.

:lmao

Fuck you by the way