Less than half of flights on time is hardly a success

Pearson sees steady improvement, Aug. 6

It seems strange that head of Toronto’s airport authority is claiming victory when 56 per cent of flights are not operating on schedule.

While she asserts the future may be bright, the real question as to how this debacle was allowed to happen in the first place is not being answered.

Why did the airlines schedule the volume of flights that were beyond its capacity and the capacity of the airport to process efficiently?

Why did the GTAA not bring demand and capacity into balance by putting a cap on the number of hourly flights?

Collectively, the airlines, airport and government agencies have failed and in the process turned Canada, Toronto and Pearson airport into the world’s laughing stock.

The ice storm in 2013 was far shorter and less disruptive, yet heads rolled.

Will those in power be held accountable in this case or will the bonuses flow because 44 per cent of the flights are on now time, up from 35 per cent four weeks ago? Tom Driedger, Etobicoke