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Canadians expected to join holiday travel rush bruised by recent years

Holiday travel angst lingers as airports, airlines gear up for busy year-end
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Though the forecast looks favourable, airports and airlines are gearing up for the prospect of mucked-up travel as the holidays approach, ramping up staffing and flight schedules, readying updated facilities and doling out advice to passengers. People walk on the beach in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Armando Solis

Michael Morrow is sitting poolside in Cancun, a Corona lager in hand, but with the faintest of knots in his stomach.

“To have a trip cancelled due to the airline is painful, but to have it happen at Christmas — when that is the only possible time to have the trip — is much more painful,” he says, referring to a holiday excursion to Mexico last year that was cancelled due to crew constraints.

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