It was supposed to be a relaxing and fun vacation to a sunny destination to celebrate their anniversary.<\/p>\n
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However, John Tiu and his wife\u2019s trip has been plagued by flight delays the moment they left Halifax. They are now stranded in an airport in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like a traumatic experience, too, to not know when you\u2019re flying back home,\u201d Tiu said Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s among hundreds of Sunwing Airlines customers dealing with cancellations and delays after back-to-back winter storms hit Eastern Canada and a Delta plane crash at Toronto\u2019s Pearson International Airport that shut down two runways.<\/a><\/p>\n Sunwing cancelled all southbound departure flights from Toronto for a second straight day, as well as those leaving from Montreal, as it deals with the backlog and focuses on passengers stranded in tropical destinations.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Sunwing flights in and out of other Canadian airports, including ones in the Maritimes, show delays and cancellations.<\/p>\n Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Tiu, whose week-long vacation has stretched into nine days, says he feels Sunwing hasn\u2019t properly communicated with them.<\/p>\n \u201cThose two times that we were there (at the airport), we were not told what to do, or that we\u2019re going to fly this day, no apology at all or nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He adds the airline even forgot to tell them they were rebooked at their hotel after additional delays to their return flight to Canada.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t![\"Get](\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\")
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