canadian-affair.com

Advantages: Nice staff and unbeatable value!
Disadvantages: Make sure you check your booking details! (Update on this at the end...)

Canadian Affair came highly recommended to me, and they didn’t disappoint. They are the winner of the Canada Travel Awards Best Canada Website 2002 and 2003 and deservedly so. They offer exceptionally cheap travel between a good range of airports in both Canada and UK, currently starting at prices as low as £148 return, including taxes! I’m actually now onto my second booking with them (second journey not yet taken… *g*). Both times have been flights ...
...a separate review for them. I find the website is sometimes temperamental and won’t load. If this happens it’s best to come back at another time. Once on it though there’s useful background information (love the time zones map!). There’s also information on the airlines used, including a seat map that will come in handy if you want to pre-book your choice of seat. First stage if you are booking a flight is the search facility. This fills in pretty ... Read review

Advantages: Quick, easy service with polite staff and helpful post-sale enquiries
Disadvantages: Bad booking system

...After having confirmed that Canadian-Affair.com is primarily an operator for charter flights, it occurred to me that there was a possibility that my flight could get cancelled due to underbookings. Highly unlikely though I knew, seeing as I was opting to fly out slap-bang in the middle of holiday season (July), so I didn't really count on it being cancelled, which it didn't. However. Upon arrival to the airport on the day of departure, I spent ...
...got there, there was a young girl being trained by another member of staff. The young girl became confused when I handed her my passport and my itinerary. In hushed tones, they discussed something, mentioning my name once. Finally, the woman who was conducting the training politely told me, "I'm sorry, but your name's been flagged by our computer. Can you please step over to the Canadian Affairs desk? Thank you." And that was that. After queueing ... Read review

Advantages: Sometimes you get lucky
Disadvantages: They don't respect their customers

My wife and I travelled from Toronto to Manchester with Canadianaffair ten days ago with reserved seat positions for the return flight back to Toronto on Wednesday July 23rd. Upon arrival at Manchester Airport for the return trip we were refused boarding and told to see the representative at the Canadianaffair office. We did this and were then informed that despite having reserved seat positions we may not be given a seat on the flight due to overbooking. ...
...around for a few hours to find out if we would be allowed on the flight. To cut a long story short, we were not permitted to board the flight and were told that we should return the next day where we would be boarded on a British Airways flight to Heathrow and then given a further British Airways flight to Toronto. As a consequence we are now waiting for tomorrows events to unfold. The Canadianaffair staff told us that overbookings of 25 seats is ... Read review

Advantages: Cheaper than competitors, simple online booking, cheap insurance, good info on Canada
Disadvantages: Only Canada 3000 flights, unable to pay rest of balance online if you choose to only pay deposit..

When the time came to booking my flights to Canada this coming summer I didnt quite know where to start.. I quickly realised I would save a few pennies by booking online but argh there were so many flight specialists, so many prices to check.. I quickly came up with a shortlist of 20 or so such companies and begun to look.. However a lot of the sites I visited were a struggle to use, and I felt that I was getting nowhere.. then I came to Canadian ...
...encouraging, a company that specialises in Canadian - UK flights would surely be cheaper than the competition, and I wasnt disappointed.. The flight prices were reasonably cheap in comparison to most other operators (£345 return to Calgary at the end of June/start of July where other companies were offering the same dates at arounf £100 or more more expensive.) The online booking searching was an absolute breeze to operate, where other companies ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, friendly efficient service
Disadvantages: None

The other ops on Canadian Affair are a little out of date, so I thought I would update things. As a Canadian expat living in the UK, I have been using them for about 5 years on my frequent trips back and for family and friends to visit us here. I will start with a trip that we made in November 2001, when Canadian-Affair was still using Canada 3000. We landed in Toronto to be told by my brother that it looked like Canada 3000 was going bankrupt. ...
...Canadian Affair elicited an instant response, with the promise that we would be taken care of for the return flight, and that we would have the details within 24 hours. Sure enough, we received another email telling us that we had seats on Northwest, via Detroit, for the same return date. OK, it wasn't the direct flight we had originally booked, but it meant we could enjoy our holiday without worrying about how we would get home, or extra expense. ... Read review