THE Flight schedule changes are not new, although they are becoming more common with the pandemic. In fact, airlines are free to adjust their flight schedules up to 14 days before departure.

You can change the frequency of flights and the start time until cancellation certain flights to optimize the use of their fleet. Airplanes follow extremely strict planning and must be in the air as much as possible.

The same plane could do this in one day, for example

• Paris-Montreal
• Montreal-Toronto
• Toronto-Montreal
• Montreal-Paris

Therefore, companies will adjust the flight schedule to allow maximum utilization of the aircraft and give them time rotations crew or maintenance etc.

In some cases, problems may arise with trips booked well in advance Flight schedule changes several times !

Then the pandemic gets even more complicated because certain scheduled flights cannot take place, which disrupts the flight schedule.

In fact, flights are scheduled several months in advance to generate reservations, even if the airline is not sure it can operate the flight. For example, Marie Pascale’s dream trip around the world, booked in June 2020 for April 2021, could not take place due to health measures.

In most cases, airlines will send an email (depending on your communication preferences) to inform you of one Change of flight planeven if the latter is minimal.

However, I advise you to ALWAYS check the schedules yourself regularly. To this end, the ExpertFlyer tool is great at notifying you of flight changes without you having to do it manually.

For example, here is a message I received from the Expedia website alerting me to a warning Change of flight plan 5 minutes compared to my original route.