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Quebec Sunwing Flight Organizer James William Awad Insists Partiers Won't Pay Their Fines

As of March 28, the Government of Canada has issued a total of 24 fines to passengers aboard the December 30 Quebec Sunwing flight to Cancun. The chartered flight made international headlines after videos from the cabin showed passengers, including local influencers and celebrities, partying maskless in their seats and the aisle.

But as Transport Canada continues its crackdown, James William Awad, the flamboyant and enigmatic flight organizer, says passengers have no plans to pay penalties. Instead, they aim to challenge them.

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The Woman Seen Vaping On The Sunwing Flight Apologized & Said She's Getting Death Threats

The passenger seen on video vaping aboard that infamous Sunwing flight to Cancun has apologized for her actions and said she's ready to face any consequences. The woman, whom the Journal de Montréal has identified as Vanessa Sicotte, took to her Instagram story on Tuesday night to address followers.

She said she had been the target of death threats and insults since the story of the Sunwing flight spread on social media.

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A Mother Of One Of The Sunwing Flight Influencers Apologized For Her Daughter's Choices

During Monday's episode of the Quebec TV show La semaine des 4 Julie, the mother of Rebecca St-Pierre, one of the passengers on the infamous Sunwing flight, came forward to testify and make a public apology.

St-Pierre's mother said she did not agree with her daughter going on the trip organized by 111 Private Club.

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James William Awad Said 111 Private Club Has Received 'Thousands' Of Requests To Join

111 Private Club, the group behind the infamous Sunwing party flight, made nonstop headlines for days after the story broke.

During an interview with Narcity, James William Awad, the man behind the club, claimed that the controversy hasn't hurt the appeal of the private club, which has 1,082 Quebec members. Rather, he said it's had quite the opposite effect.

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The Sunwing Flight Organizer Called Critics Of His Plane Party 'Sheep' & Said 'Wake Up'

After James William Awad released a public statement about the whole Sunwing flight fiasco, in the midst of releasing other statements on Twitter, the organizer of the trip returned to social networks on January 9 to discuss the events yet again. This time, he referred to anyone who got upset about the partying that took place on their plane to Mexico as "sheep."

"Reality of the story, sheeps are mad because people partied on a private chartered plane where partying was allowed," wrote Awad, the owner of 111 Private Club, on his Twitter account. He then told his critics to "wake up!!"

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The Quebec Influencer Saga Made It Onto 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' (VIDEO)

The group of Quebec influencers who decided to film themselves partying maskless on a plane to Mexico have been making tons of headlines over the last few days. And after the footage began to circulate online, Sunwing, Air Transat and Air Canada all refused to fly them home.

This event, chartered by 111 Private Club, is getting attention from all kinds of major online newspapers, including TMZ. And now, the whole fiasco has even managed to make its way onto The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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This Sunwing Plane Saga Parody By A Quebec Comedian Is Super On Point & Totally Hilarious

If you've been following the Sunwing party plane saga, you've probably also seen the hilarious TikToks and memes it has inspired — and Quebec comedian Arnaud Soly's 51-minute-long parody is up there with the funniest of them.

In a video posted to Instagram, Soly introduces himself as "Devon," an influencer and member of the group that went on the now-infamous trip to Mexico organized by 111 Private Club. Devon is still in Tulum finds the fact that he has to stay in Mexico quite difficult.

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WTF Is 111 Private Club? Here's What To Know About The Plane Party Scandal's Organizer

A group of Quebec influencers and reality TV personalities made headlines this week as footage of them partying maskless while on a plane to Mexico, chartered by 111 Private Club, circulated online, leading to Sunwing, Air Transat and Air Canada refusing to fly them home.

The passengers — who Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a gang de sans-desseins (purposeless or clueless people) — face fines of up to $5,000 per offence and even jail time for air safety and public health violations, and both the airline as well as multiple federal government departments are investigating. Some of the passengers have also spoken out to tell their sides of the story, as has the flight's organizer: 111 Private Club.

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9 Hilarious TikToks About The Infamous Sunwing Party Flight

Whenever an event goes viral on the internet, it's only natural that all kinds of TikToks be made about it. And that's exactly what happened with the Sunwing party flight filled with Quebec influencers.

Between the flight full of alcohol bottles and vapes, the media frenzy and multiple airlines banning them, the content creators in our province got to work — and pure gold is what came as a result.

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La Belle Et La Boeuf Is Advertising A Joke 'Influencer Burger' & It Looks Like Regret

Those Quebec influencers now apparently scrambling to get out of Mexico have captured the minds, bitter hearts and now, even stomachs of their fellow citizens. On Wednesday, local burger chain La Belle et La Boeuf capitalized on the cultural frenzy ignited by that fateful flight to Cancun by jokingly advertising a fake new "Influencer Burger Tulum" complete with "gros jambon, gros piment, gros sans dessein" and "gros Ostrogoth."

In French, if you don't know, a "gros jambon" can mean a "big idiot." As can "gros piment."

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The Quebec Gov't Responded To The Vaseline Trick To Fake Negative COVID-19 Tests

According to alleged leaked chats between the infamous Sunwing party flight group, 111 Private Club, shared on popular Instagram accounts like @od_scoop, some of the travellers had planned to use a Vaseline trick to falsify their COVID-19 test results.

One of the people in the alleged chat said that Vaseline is "made up of covalent hydrocarbon molecules" and "pH measures the concentrations of hydrogen ions in an aqueous solution." They claimed that "Vaseline is not soluble in water" and therefore that it "has no pH" which, for them, would mean that there would be "no positive result."

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The Infamous Sunwing Party Flight's Organizer & Some Passengers Responded On Social Media

From TMZ To Trudeau, everyone seems to be talking about the infamous Sunwing party flight to Cancun that turned a group of Quebec influencers into the subjects of a Transport Canada investigation, as passengers face fines of up to $5,000 and a precarious journey home (Sunwing cancelled their return flight and two other airlines are refusing to take them).

Now, the flight's organizer, as well as some of the passengers, are speaking out about the incident on social media.

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