My vision was clearer late last night, but not so much this morning. Still it's nice to see that improvement is possible, and maybe with the right meds all will be ok.

Today we are trying to cope with pesky details of just trying to retreat from our planned ride. We have "scavengers" intent on picking the bones. Like Air Canada that now seems to want over $100 if we have one bag for the overhead. They don't care that it is an international flight, because they set us up for a stopover in Canada, and they take that as license to invoke their draconian domestic baggage rules throughout. I will welcome seeing instead the more honest flying vultures above our lower fields, should we ever make it back there!

Dodie is back at the airport buildings now, to try to convince the wheelchair people to show up here early enough to give us a chance to check in and board. They seem resistant to that. Don't know why.

Air Canada sent us a link for online check in, something that might speed things when we fly tomorrow. But the link they sent said since we are starting with "another" airline (Lufthansa), get lost.  Lufthansa check-in is German only, and anyway would not work for me. We booked through and paid Air Canada, but how quickly they abandoned us!

On her walks to the terminal building, Dodie is trying to uphold our previous standard for photos of bakeries, birds, and buildings. I think she could do well, given the right subject matter. But with apologies to Juergen, who spent years as facilities manager here, there is little of photo quality. Here is what Dodie gathered this time:

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Scott AndersonMmm - similar to a raven, but look at that whitish bill. It's a rook.
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The repressive Air Canada policy about the overhead racks continued to give us concern, because while they continued to insist that we had to check a bag, that bag could not contain electronics or meds. So if we could not check such stuff, of which we have a lot, and if can not put it overhead as carry on, then what?  Dodie spent some time figuring what to put where. 

Just to continue the whiny line of this post for a bit, there was of course a time, that we can just remember, when air flight was fun and companies vied to provide good service, meal choices often with little printed menus, free checked baggage, and such. Then came a split between full service and budget airlines. The budget idea was based on the seductive but ultimately flawed proposition that one should not have to pay for services that each traveler may not need. Translation: everything is extra. And given that, how much extra? Answer, every last penny that can be squeezed. 

This "ethos" then spread rapidly to the so called full service operations. They began to slather on the baggage and other charges, jacking them season by season. Meanwhile, their "full service" fare categories were priced sky high and beyond. With this the list of budget vs full service becomes rather meaningless, such as in this sample:

 "Key full-service carriers include Lufthansa, Air Canada, United, Delta, American Airlines, and Cathay Pacific, whereas popular budget airlines are Ryanair, EasyJet, Southwest, AirAsia, and Allegiant Air."

I think what this all really means now is that with the likes of Air Canada, you have the option of paying $23,842 Business Class, for two,  (actual website figure today), with not even a very direct route,  sharing a cabin with the riff raff on the Canadian leg, and if I read it right, you still pay for checked baggage? In the alternative, something like Condor may not have a way for you to blow that much money (no Business Class?), and does not fly to Leipzig, or Victoria, and does not want to help you figure out how to do it.

All very comforting, so Thanks, Air Canada!