With the federal government issuing a strong advisory to Canadians not to travel abroad amid the Omicron variant outbreak, people with travel plans are scrambling to decide if they should keep their flight or cancel.
But Canadians don’t have much leeway to cancel or even delay their flights under Canada’s Air Passenger Protection Regulations (APPR). “Passengers have to take responsibility for their own travel and for their own lives,” said Gabor Lukacs, president of Air Passenger Rights.
In the case of a travel advisory, if an airline is still offering the flight and passengers don’t want to travel, they risk facing cancellation or fee change charges.