Travel to Nova Scotia

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I picked up my son at Halifax International Airport yesterday and saw the forlorn tail of a Zoom 767 on the tarmac going nowhere because the company owes the airport scads of money. Travel officials were “caught off-guard” by the grounding of Zoom which finally succumbed to the malady of high fuel prices.

What is it with the airline industry in this country? Canada 2000 went belly up in 2001 and Jetsgo in March of this year but no one in the industry saw fit to let the travelers know beforehand? At least Alitalia is letting everyone know that it is filing for bankruptcy.

What bothers me is the way the stranded travelers are being treated here in Halifax and by the rest of the industry. These are people on summer vacation with full-paid tickets waiting to home. All of a sudden their tickets are worthless and they are stranded in an u familiar surrounding waiting to back home to Europe and other parts. And it seems that the great hospitality of Halifax that was so highly bugled for helping people in the days after Sept. 1, 2001 was somehow misplaced during this time of great frustration for these weary travelers. It’s like they are lepers and very few people and airline personnel were willing to help.

So what does this show about the airline industry as a whole?

1) They gouged full last-minute fare from the helpless travelers.

2) They left these people and their kids sleep in the airport.

3) They left out minimal information about other flights.

4) Few if any put on other equipment even though they were gouging them $2500 for a $600 fare.

Think of the tour companies, connecting flights, people stranded in Europe and other persons who are going to be almost wiped out by Zoom’s sudden demise. Couldn’t the Halifax Airport authorities put a high-paid cop on board to let the British authorities know that this aircraft owes money? Do they are abut money so badly that they would crucify the holidays of hundreds of people?

The government should make airlines and airports have a system just like law office have where clients are reimbursed for the crooked practices of bad lawyers. They should also make allowances to fly these people home or put them up in good accommodations until this can happen.

Again, the good will that Halifax accrued during the disaster after 9/11 has been poured out on the tarmac this week. Because if was Brit or other nationality, I wouldn’t come back.

NOTE: Pay for tickets with credit cards. It is rumored that those who paid with Visa and Amex will get refunds. This might take the sting off paying $1900 for a $600 ticket home.

airline industry, airport authorities, alitalia, british authorities, fuel prices, halifax international airport

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One of the hardest thing to do when moving to a new area to is secure a place to live. This is because, in a lot of cases, there isn’t enough time to make an informed decision. Either the job starts less than a week after you can get there or b7 the time you find out you are going, there isn’t much choice left. All the great deals are gone.

In Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley a site called ValleyRent.ca is making inroads into the rental market by giving apartment and home searchers and organized way of getting a rental. In addition, for landlords there is a special area to place your add with photos. And the nice thing about this service is that it’s free. So while other nationwide services cost about $1 a day ValleyRent.ca is bucking the system and charging zilch.

Here’s how it works: A prospective tenant or landlord goes onto the site and chooses between two huge buttons which then takes you to a filed to put in your information. For landlords such as me there is a sign-in page and then a control panel for editing, changing my profile, adding listings and even a forum for landlords to air their concerns and to share information.

For the next year ValleyRent.ca will be free and then it will go into a paid membership. For you renters the service will always be free.

This is a great matching service which puts both renter and landlord in the drivers’ seat.

annapolis valley, apartment, great deals, home searchers, landlord, landlords, nova scotia, prospective tenant

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One of the jewels of the south shore, Mouton Island, is for sale again. The German owners who once envisioned a Shangri-La in Nova Scotia have put it on the market. They came with high hopes and lots of money but, as I hear, situations in Germany changed and they fell short of finishing it. This is reminiscent of the spa at Aspotogan, also started by Germans.

For those of you who haven’t heard of it Mouton island is situated 3 km outside the village of Port Mouton, which is about 15 km south of Liverpool. Roughly speaking it is about 988 acres and over 700 of this is woods. It says that “some of the forest could be cleared to make space for an airstrip” but i think this was already done years ago and has grown over. The sandy beaches make it a Mecca for sea kayakers and day trippers.

Unlike many islands this one has lots of fresh water. One can be classed as being a bit “brackish” but the other is good water.

I’ve never been there but the skinny on the place is that there are structures there that have been ransacked over the years.

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