Air Canada’s Wild and Woolly SMS Alert System

It’s not a great day on the grid, obviously, which makes it a perfect day to test Air Canada’s mobile flight alert system. I’m on the ground in LGA waiting for my flight, and knowing this morning that I might be, I subscribed to alerts on the incoming flight as well as mine. First problem: the incoming flight was delayed, but I got the alert that its departure was delayed 20 minutes after its scheduled departure. Second: the alert on my flight’s delay came right after, but a further delay hasn’t been issued through the alert system – it shows on the boards here at the airport, but you wouldn’t know it if you were relying on the alerts. So, you shouldn’t. For now, it’s still just entertainment.