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Kate 11:22 on 2024-01-31 Permalink Reply  

• carswell 11:39 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  Have only got as far as the second sentence: “The capital of the French-speaking province of Quebec…” Yikes! That’s a surprise.

• carswell 11:56 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  The author also claims American Airlines has direct flights between the UK and Montreal. Untrue.

  Some of the recommendations — Qui lait cru over Hamel at the JTM, for example — are debatable too.

• Ephraim 12:09 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  @carswell – Well…. AA sort of does. They are codeshare partners with BA (and Finnair). BA95 (AA6920 and AY5995) flies nonstop LHR to YUL.

• carswell 12:46 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  That’s not what the article says, Ephraim. “Air Canada, British Airways, Air Transat and American Airlines fly between the UK and Montreal multiple times a week. Average flight time: 7h15m.”

  There are no direct AA flights between the UK and Montreal. Yes, AA is a member of the OneWorld alliance. So are TAP and Iberia, among others; why not mention them? And Lufthansa and United are code-sharing members of Star Alliance, along with Air Canada. If it’s true for AA, why not for them? Because it’s not true.

• Ian 13:05 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  They spelled “Fairmount” Bagel “Fairmont” … though thinking Montreal is th capital of Quebec is a way more egregious error. Maybe we need the descriptor “NOT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL OF QUEBEC” twice the size of the name of the city on signs at the airport 😀

• Ephraim 13:17 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  TP and IB don’t codeshare that flight, just AA and AY. And only LH codeshares the AC flight. TS flights are codeshares with PD, but only if you fly via YYZ. I assume that the only reason that AA is mentioned is that either they are a sponsor of NatGeo or it’s needed for their ad server (which I can’t see because I’m not geolocated in the US and I have an ad blocking DNS in use.)

• EmilyG 13:44 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  I wonder if National Geographic still doesn’t allow submissions of photos from Quebecers.

• Blork 14:04 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  Arrrgh! Made it almost all the way through without a mention of the “underground city,” and there it was at the end. (I was near the Quartier des Spectacles one night during the holidays when a French family approached me asking how to find the underground city. I tried to explain that at 8:00PM on a Wednesday night there was nothing to see there except shuttered kiosks in tunnels connecting malls that aren’t open, but they just did not want to hear it.)

  EmilyG, not sure what you mean. The article’s photos are by Jeff Frenette, who is a local.

• Kate 15:03 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  Blork, shawn told an almost identical anecdote a year ago. I’ve also had people ask me, downtown, where the underground city is, and have told them “just go through that door” or “you’re standing on it” variously.

• Mark Côté 20:30 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  One cold afternoon I tried to navigate the “underground city” from Square Victoria up to Peel & Ste-Catherine. I gave up after getting one building east of the metro. Surprisingly few resources online about getting around underground.

• Mark Côté 20:31 on 2024-01-31 Permalink

  Er, west of the metro I mean.

• Annette 01:42 on 2024-02-01 Permalink

  It’s kind of you not to crush their sense of wonder, Kate.

• MarcG 08:12 on 2024-02-01 Permalink

  The underground city isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind (filled with shuttered kiosks in tunnels connecting malls that aren’t open).

• Joey 14:45 on 2024-02-01 Permalink

  I know we have our unique underground city, but in Toronto last week I did a 20-minute underground walk from one part of Downtown Toronto to another (and the malls, kiosks and food courts were a lot nicer than the walk from, say, Bonaventure Metro to the Eaton Centre: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-toronto/path-torontos-downtown-pedestrian-walkway/