Omar Alghabra, Canada’s minister of shipping and MP for Mississauga Centre, introduced a brand new sequence of consequences to passengers at the December 30 Sunwing Airways flight for noncompliance with vaccination laws and now not dressed in a masks.
The company mentioned consequences may just achieve a most of $5,000 every (about US $3,970).
Stranded in Mexico
Contributors of the rowdy crew proven in movies dancing, consuming and vaping maskless aboard the flight to Cancun discovered themselves stranded in Mexico in early January after their go back flight to Canada was once scrubbed and different airways declined to fly them house.
Sunwing canceled their go back flight, which was once scheduled for January 5, since the crew didn’t comply with phrases it defined, the airline mentioned.
Sunwing mentioned in a commentary on the time that its resolution to cancel the crowd’s flight again to Canada was once “in keeping with the crowd’s refusal to just accept all phrases and our safety group’s review that noncompliance could be most probably in keeping with their earlier disruptive onboard conduct.”
Two different carriers additionally declined to fly them again.
The crowd flew to Cancun at the constitution flight for a shuttle arranged by means of “unique non-public crew” 111 Personal Membership.
Trudeau: ‘A slap within the face’
The flight was once wearing a complete of 154 passengers, in keeping with Delivery Canada. The passengers have been required to be totally vaccinated in response to a civil aviation order associated with Covid-19.
Video of the passengers’ conduct, which presentations dancing and consuming within the aisles, sparked outrage in Canada and a rebuke from Canadian High Minister Justin Trudeau.
“It is a slap within the face to peer other people placing themselves, placing their fellow voters, placing airline employees in peril by means of being utterly irresponsible,” Trudeau mentioned at a briefing in January.
