If you’ve flown anywhere in the last six months, you know that the airlines are in a state of disarray. Extraordinarily high rates of delays and cancellations are commonplace, both as a result of airline and FAA failures. United CEO Scott Kirby told CNN that Newark Liberty Airport has reduced arrival rates by 40 percent and departure rates by 75 percent, partly blaming them for his airline’s recent issues.


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On the flip side, Greater Toronto Airport Authority CEO Deborah Flint recently tried to convince the press that her city’s Pearson International Airport has somehow bucked this trend. “We’ve seen almost a doubling in terms of improvement on on-time performance since last year,” she said, citing a 70 percent on-time rate compared to 30 percent last year. “We see the great results that have come from that.”


However, mid-sentence, a CTVNewsToronto cameraman decided to pan up to the schedule board behind her — a board completely riddled with delays and cancellations.



“Cameraman knew the assignment,” one TikToker commented.


“Give the CEO’s bonus to the camera operator for transparency,” Deliboy suggested.



A spokesperson for the Airport Authority later told Insider that the delayed flights were an American problem — meaning that East-Coast flights were delayed, not Canadian ones — and therefore not Pearson's fault. They also claimed that many fell within “the 15-minute international standard for on-time performance."



That said, if Flint really does think things are going well, she should try taking one of her own flights — when she has a connecting flight to catch, too.