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[socsci]

I had the good fortune of flying transatlantic last week. I'm not much for movies, so I often find myself following  the flight map for much of the trip when I'm not working or sleeping. Much to my surprise, the map on Northwest Airlines' Airbus 330 (via the game controller, which lets you zoom in fairly close) had a serious error in Canada. It still showed Hull and Aylmer, Quebec, as separate cities, when both were amalgamated into Gatineau six years ago. That seems to be a long time to be out of date.

Anyone had a similar experience?

[qrypt]

Perhaps Northwest is simply refusing to get with the program.  The program in question being, naturally, the Frenchification of names in Quebec.  After all, Hull is in England!  And you know they have a hard time pronouncing it in French: it comes out ʔull (glottal stop).

[sciencephd]

There are so many possibilities for Canada jokes in response to this post ... I wouldn't know where to start.

[daniel_von_flanagan]

The program in question being, naturally, the Frenchification of names in Quebec.  After all, Hull is in England!  And you know they have a hard time pronouncing it in French: it comes out ʔull (glottal stop).

It comes out exactly the same in Hull, England.

From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, God preserve us.

- DvF

[bewildered]

When I was a fighter pilot in the Balkans, I accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy because of outdated maps.

[deleteplease]

The pilot probably has a GPS system -- and navigates by coordinates.

The most confusing route though, was the commuter plane which used to do a loop
starting at Chicago and continuing to both Bloomington IN and Bloomington IL --
the odds were always that one or two passengers (or pieces of luggage) would end
up in the wrong Bloomington.

[locutus]

There are so many possibilities for Canada jokes in response to this post ... I wouldn't know where to start.

The mind boggles.