Jared Regel was one of hundreds of Canadians stuck in Mexico over the holiday season after Sunwing, a discount airline, cancelled their flights home.
Some passengers were moved from hotel to hotel, some were forced to sleep overnight in a hotel lobby or at the airport, and others eventually bought tickets on other airlines to make it home for the holidays. Regel, his wife, and their 4-year-old son were delayed 72 hours in Mexico. They originally flew to Cancun on Dec. 12 and were scheduled to fly back to Regina, Saskatchewan, on Dec. 19.
A Sunwing representative told the couple that a winter storm in Vancouver was making it hard to get planes in and out, Regel told The Epoch Times….