While it wasn’t quite the last flight out of Saigon, I just heard the last scheduled WestJet for Toronto, Boeing 737 C-GQWJ, rumble into the sky.

While we’re still connected to Canada by the one daily flight to each of Toronto and Montréal on Air Canada, WestJet’s pullout does reinforce the “cut off from the rest” feeling of living on this Island, in both the negative and positive senses.