bubblesalt

My nephew visited Vancouver from HK, his flight was Hong Kong -> Beijing -> Vancouver.

But his HK -> Beijing flight couldn't land in Beijing, they said it was some "flight quota" (not bad weather or anything), so they flew to some small city WAY up north, kept them in the plane for 3 hours, then got the passengers in a really horrible hotel.  He had to wait until the next day before flying to Beijing again, then another couple of hours wait and fly to Vancouver, he was delayed for more than 24 hours.  

If you are on vacation, I do not think you want to wait 24 hours stuck in an airport.  I would TOTALLY pay that $2-300 more to go Cathy Pacific.