You know how much Air Canada wanted for changing a short flight from Fort St John to Vancouver to an earlier one?
$500.
Yeah, that’s more than the entire YXJ to YYZ trip cost. Smooth one, AC.
Flying - especially to the US - is such a tawdry experience. You trail out to a part of town that noone would otherwise go to, you wait in line, ticketing systems malfunction in ways that airline staff accept blindly, you wait in line again, a bored immigration official grills you half-heartedly, you wait in line again (this time without shoes), then you look forward to some dinner in the departure lounge - and have to make do with some cardboard pizza, since the only other choice is a hockey bar. And all of this is a good 90 minutes from your departure time.
Why does anyone put up with this?