Irri

Sorry, I should have said... I'm in the UK.

Aviator

So this is a bit shutting the barn door after the horse buggered off then?

Irri

Not sure I follow.

Snowy560

OK Irri I see do you live in the UK?

Try for special authorization then. Fingers crossed that you get it.

Keep us updated!

Irri

Yeah, I live in the UK, but have Canadian citizenship. The holiday location is booked for the 1st of May, but I don't have time to get a new passport. I haven't booked the flight yet though. I don't want to book the flight if there is a possibility I won't get the special authorisation. Hmmm.

Snowy560

Well, as per the link I sent you, it leads to contacting these places for enquiries/assistance:

https://travel.gc.ca/assistance/emba...united-kingdom



"If you are not eligible for the special authorization

There are no quick fixes to help you get on your flight.

Contact the nearest Government of Canada office abroad to find out what your options are. Only under strict conditions and on a case-by-case basis will temporary passports or emergency travel documents be issued."

Dual Canadian citizens need a valid Canadian passport

Let us know what happens!

Irri

Will do. Thanks.

CanadianSpruce

Can't you get an emergency passport worst case?

Irri

Don't think you can do that from the UK. I have emailed the embassy.

dbd33

I can outdo this. I was on a flight to Canada, I hung my coat in the closet and sat down. On arrival in Toronto my coat had gone. The flight attendant explained that they ran out of room in the closet and checked my coat. I was irritated but not upset until I realized that my documentation was in my coat and immigration is before baggage claim. The immigration people wouldn't let me go and pick up the coat so we went through a whole pantomime of "where do you live? How do you get there?". Eventually I said I had unpaid speeding tickets and they should look them up. Many hours after I arrived, they let me go.

The next week I was strolling along, approaching immigration, when I realized that the doors between departures and arrivals were open. Not wanting the hassle of seeing the immigration people again, I walked into departures and out of the airport. The airline treated my bag as "lost" and delivered it the next day. I got away with this half a dozen times before the airline smelled a rat and declined to deliver the luggage again.

BristolUK

Is my ignorance of what you speak because I've not flown since 2007 or is this something to do with flying other than economy?

CanadianSpruce

I usually have my coat hung when I'm in Business or First. I'm a top tier frequent flyer (I have fly a lot) and occasionally also get offered to have my coat hung in economy as well. If you ask though I think most airlines with hang your coat on a long haul flight.

dbd33

My era of flying multiple times a week was the 1990s and 2000s. Thank God the internet was then widely adopted and the need to fly faded away. I don't know if closets are still generally available but I do know that proper coats are rarely worn, it hardly matters if some sort of puffy polymer thing has to be stomped under the seat.

BristolUK

Seems they are.

I've enviously passed some of the 'seats' in whatever class they were. I've always had some vague idea of free drinks and proper plates and things but it never occurred to me there might be closets too.

Aviator

Priority boarding is always nice before the rush.