WJ emergency yyc?

[the_professor]

I'm curious why the crew didn't declare an emergency. In my mind a potential onboard fire of any kind ranks right up at the top of the list of what qualifies as one.

Probably why tower rolled the equipment -- because it sounded like an emergency. From an ATC perspective, there is no such thing as "requesting priority", so to speak. You're either first come, first served, or you've declared an emergency.

There is no advantage to a crew not declaring an emergency when such a call is warranted, because when you start doing things like reporting an electrical smell and then "request priority", ATC is thinking "emergency", they'll roll the equipment as a precaution (as in this case), and you'll still be looking at any potential paperwork or a phone call after the fact.

So if it feels like an emergency (and a suspected electrical fire is certainly an emergency, in my mind), call it as such and get on the ground sooner (potentially), where you'll have plenty of time to safely second-guess yourself, as opposed to doing so in the air because you didn't want to ruffle any feathers.

[yycflyguy]

I'm curious why the crew didn't declare an emergency. In my mind a potential onboard fire of any kind ranks right up at the top of the list of what qualifies as one.

Probably why tower rolled the equipment -- because it sounded like an emergency. From an ATC perspective, there is no such thing as "requesting priority", so to speak. You're either first come, first served, or you've declared an emergency.

Unless it's Westjet... then they always get priority handling.

[ALF]

If this was AC the media would be all over it.
Since it is WJ this will be the end of it.

Everyone loves to bash the red and white.
WJ is the poster child for positive PR.

[Black Cat]

Yeop! AC and Jazz has been doing community improvement forever around canada and yyc, habitat for humanity, dreams take flight, brats to camp, united way "lend a hand" program, etc and nothing. But wj employees pick up the garbage in their own parking lot and its the lead story on the 6'oclock news.

Gotta give the teal team points for the customer service and PR. And after all, with 52% of those polled, they are " Canada's preferred airline". Good for them though; As a company thinks in its mind, so it is!

I sometimes wonder if AC even has a PR dept... after all, Ranjeet from India can only cares so much.... I wonder if they have taught them him to call pizza hotline for this winters blizzards delays yet?

[Jastapilot]