Sounds like Canada! We woke up big time. Still room for improvement but my guess is at least 30% of Canadian are pretty much done with the USA for good. Travel is dropping, American produce in store is rotting (I have never seen US strawberries on sale that cheap!). Follow our lead haha.
Anecdotal, but I just returned from a very pleasant Canadian vacation and the return flight was the emptiest I’ve ever seen an airport. Zero line to check my bag, zero line to go through security, zero line to go through customs. Many empty seats on the flight itself. It was eerie. I wonder how much longer Air Canada is going to offer that flight…
Canada (Quebec City) was beautiful and charming. The people were friendly, the weather was perfect, the food was delicious, the politics were sane. Sigh. If any Canadians reading this are hiring software engineers, drop me a DM…
Texas, the state I happened to be born in. My family is all here, or I probably would have left by now. Austin, for what it’s worth. A rare blue area in a sea of MAGA.
It was the same when I left Vancouver for a meeting in the USA right as this all kicked off. US customs was empty, and they didn’t challenge anything (like they used to) almost like they knew they needed tourism so didn’t want to turn anyone away
Sounds like Canada! We woke up big time. Still room for improvement but my guess is at least 30% of Canadian are pretty much done with the USA for good. Travel is dropping, American produce in store is rotting (I have never seen US strawberries on sale that cheap!). Follow our lead haha.
Anecdotal, but I just returned from a very pleasant Canadian vacation and the return flight was the emptiest I’ve ever seen an airport. Zero line to check my bag, zero line to go through security, zero line to go through customs. Many empty seats on the flight itself. It was eerie. I wonder how much longer Air Canada is going to offer that flight…
Canada (Quebec City) was beautiful and charming. The people were friendly, the weather was perfect, the food was delicious, the politics were sane. Sigh. If any Canadians reading this are hiring software engineers, drop me a DM…
Yay! I am glad you had a good time here! Where was the flight going?
Texas, the state I happened to be born in. My family is all here, or I probably would have left by now. Austin, for what it’s worth. A rare blue area in a sea of MAGA.
Oh ok so the quiet flight is going to the US back and forth. That tracks. Sorry but we Canadians feel like the USA left us no choice but boycott.
Btw Austin was always on the top of my list for destinations but I guess it won’t happen now 😔
Don’t apologize, I’d boycott us too
Air Canada (and Westjet) has already deleted a number of routes to the US.
It was the same when I left Vancouver for a meeting in the USA right as this all kicked off. US customs was empty, and they didn’t challenge anything (like they used to) almost like they knew they needed tourism so didn’t want to turn anyone away