Another Canadian Airline has bitten the dust. Harmony Airways announced today that they will be ending all scheduled flights over the next couple weeks.
The good news is that people who had tickets booked on Harmony will be issued full refunds. Well played, Harmony. Customers of previous Canadian airline casualties Jetsgo were not nearly as lucky.
The bad news is now I’ll never get to use my $500 Harmony voucher I received in December. (Harmony handed it out to placate passengers after an extremely delayed Christmas flight). Boo! So much for my hopes of going to Hawaii in May.
But that’s not the only reason I’m sad to see Harmony go. I only flew with them a couple times but was always pleased with their customer service (delayed flight notwithstanding). On all of my Harmony flights the seats were comfortable, there was free food and wine, and the staff were friendly and courteous. That’s a trifecta Air Canada has never managed to achieve in all the times I’ve flown with them. And Westjet, as much as I love them, charges for food and drink.
Harmony were also the only Canadian airline that still offered a discount to full time students with ISIC cards. That’s why I flew with them at Christmas. Now there’ll be no more air travel price breaks for Canadian students. I guess I’d better look into booking my Christmas holiday flight on Aeroplan points in the next month or two…
Every year when September rolls around, I regret not booking Christmas holidays with Aeroplan as the 25K tickets are all gone. Aren’t Christmas vacations nearly predictable when we’ll take them? I hope you get your free flight!
Posted by wyn | 27. Mar, 2007, 11:15 pmI’m in the exact same boat, err flight, I was hoping on going to Hawaii with my free flight. And I loved Harmony! Incidently, I happened upon your blog while searching for news on whether the flight vouchers are indeed useless now – I’m not about to wait on hold for hours to find out what I already suspect….
Posted by Krisztina | 01. Apr, 2007, 1:16 pmWhen I heard the news, I was hoping to book a last minute weekend flight to *anywhere* Harmony flew, so I immediately called up and waited on hold for a half hour or so to find out. But sadly they stopped honouring the vouchers as soon as the announcement was made.
Posted by Karen | 01. Apr, 2007, 10:02 pm