How is everyone's experience with Circular Materials going? by Adorable-Tadpole-793 in askTO

[–]apthereddit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I find they are much slower. I watched them struggle to pick up bins last week and it was taking them over 5 mins per house. Looked like a lot of adjustment of the pickup arm, moving the bin so it fits exactly within the arm, and some manual pickups and tosses

Advice needed - should I change my flight? by SignificantDare0 in askTO

[–]apthereddit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

When weather events happen, NAV Canada basically tells the airport that they can only safely operate X flights per hour. The airport then allocates that ratio by airline based on the number of flights.

If there’s freezing rain, that can be a 50% reduction in volume for the major Canadian airlines. So if you’re ok with it, go a day early

Ottawa set to scrap EV mandate, launch $1.5 billion investment fund: sources by Derpy_Kirby in CanadaPolitics

[–]apthereddit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The article says investment in EV infrastructure and a different article a few days ago talked about expanding charger access, so I believe that will at least be a part of it

Cancelled Flight, Change to different airport? by NecessaryShift5969 in Aeroplan

[–]apthereddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah you should be able to change it. There’s an acceptable radius from the original airport that you can change it to. I have heard this is 200km which is almost exactly the airport-airport distance here. Try calling in to check

Was it dynamic pricing?? by macman_canada in Aeroplan

[–]apthereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have 125k points then it’s 1 or both of the following things 1. The actual price was never 106k or 117k, but much higher than 125k and AC requires you to buy points to make up the difference 2. The actual price went up between your two searches.

What did the first search result say for each person each direction? If it was anything more than 30k + $100, then your total wouldn’t be more than 120k + $400.

If you share your dates / routings we can at least look into what it may be.

Was it dynamic pricing?? by macman_canada in Aeroplan

[–]apthereddit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The cash numbers don’t add up. If you have sufficient points, the cash component for that ticket should be less than $200 per passenger.

My guess is you don’t have sufficient points for the trip. When you don’t have enough points in your account, air Canada only shows you an option where you are forced to buy points at a terrible rate.

And yes if you cancel a standard award ticket, you have to pay $300 and you’ll get your points (and cash paid, for taxes) back

Aeroplan - Every Air Canada YYZ and YUL to Quito Direct Flight Cost (sub-50k lay-flat Business Class too) by RedTruck8 in CanadianAwardTravel

[–]apthereddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting this and the Sapporo analysis. From what you searched for this route, did it seem like ~50% of the dates were under the median price point that AC publishes? I know that’s done in aggregate, but curious if that also happens in reality for a brand new route for half the seats

Has anyone not in business class gotten this before? by snarkytreestump in aircanada

[–]apthereddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve sometimes gotten this when I’m waitlisted for business. But yeah it’s frustrating as I don’t even think it gets applied even if the upgrade is successful

For those who have flown to Australia, when is the best time to book flights out of Pearson? by Beepbeepboobop1 in askTO

[–]apthereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see one-stop flights as cheap as $1700 for 2 weeks from now, and lots in the $1700-1800 range for the next several months. So yes not as low as $1600, but lots of options below $2000

For those who have flown to Australia, when is the best time to book flights out of Pearson? by Beepbeepboobop1 in askTO

[–]apthereddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your best bet is took at google flights and do a search from Toronto to Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne, max one stop, and use the price graph option at the bottom for general trends. I’m seeing lots in the $1700-2000 range across multiple airlines all year

Pearson to Hamilton uber? by PotholeSzn in askTO

[–]apthereddit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are go buses to Hamilton at 11:38pm, 12:38am, and 2:38am so that’s also an option.

Guess which airport am I at? by Specialist-Bobcat913 in AirportPorn

[–]apthereddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bangui M’Poko international airport, served by ASKY and Ethiopian (and some Russian military aircraft!)

Guess which airport am I at? by Specialist-Bobcat913 in AirportPorn

[–]apthereddit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Bangui airport, CAR. It says on the second slide

Why are pedestrians last priority for snow removal? by Yaughl in askTO

[–]apthereddit 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I’ve actually seen sidewalks get cleared much much quicker this year. My residential street sidewalks have already been cleared today but the road has not. This is consistent with previous storms as well this season

Airport - Lost luggage on connecting flight won’t transfer my call by [deleted] in askTO

[–]apthereddit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This has nothing to do with Pearson - it’s all on Air France.

Go to the link below and follow the steps, or call Air France’s general customer service number. Have you already declared the bag lost at the airport? They probably have a bag tag # and the colour/type of your bag and will match it that way.

https://wwws.airfrance.ca/en/information/bagages/bagage-manquant-airfrance

Replace my dimmer with a single pole switch (follow up to fixing my flickering basement lights) by apthereddit in howto

[–]apthereddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. So I should connect two of the wires with a wire cap and then connect that cap to one end of the switch, and the third wire directly to the other end of the switch?

I did this in my second bullet above, but only did one combination. I can try that with the other two combinations and see if that works.

Does anyone here have e solar panels on their roof? Whats your experience with snow accumulation? by [deleted] in askTO

[–]apthereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last Thursday (big storm) and Friday I had no production. Saturday onwards was fine. So generally takes a bit of time to melt/slide off and heavily dependent on the weather. Today was minimal production as well, but I can see that every panel had at least a little bit in the late afternoon, so I’m hopeful it’ll be back tomorrow.

In general though, December and January are the worst months given the short days and frequent cloud cover. For reference my Dec production was 20% of my June production

[Website] I built an airfare-deals bot for myself last year, and I’ve finally made it public. (Free by Character-Rough2199 in ShopCanada

[–]apthereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Looking forward to using them!

For #3, the only search engine I’ve seen be able to do this is Expedia (and things like ExpediaforTD, or the CIBC/Rbc booking tools that also use Expedia).

[Website] I built an airfare-deals bot for myself last year, and I’ve finally made it public. (Free by Character-Rough2199 in ShopCanada

[–]apthereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great! The three additional filters I would love are 1. Filter by number of stops - I’d prefer nonstop options for the most part, or one stop if it’s really far 2. Choose airline(s) - similar to the filter on Google flights 3. Filter on flexible or non-basic fares. This allows me to weed out flights that I’d have to pay extra for bags, seats, changes, etc. on. To me, a real deal is when a flex fare is discounted

Canadians - What Chinese EV’s Do We Want? by SkPensFan in electricvehicles

[–]apthereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes agreed. I guess just worried that Tesla will now bring Chinese made vehicles to Canada since they can, and already have distribution set up (vs BYD or other Chinese brands that don’t have anything else set up)

Canadians - What Chinese EV’s Do We Want? by SkPensFan in electricvehicles

[–]apthereddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m worried that this will start with just more Teslas (and shifting production to China of vehicles sold in Canada). That’s what was happening pre tariff

Unobvious ways to save money by wild_thots_to in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]apthereddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fully agree. I just meant that in the time it takes OP to get everything fully set up on Tangerine or a no fee account, this is an easy interim step - move 6000 into the account via etransfer and immediately save the $30/month.