All Airbus: Air Canada Rouge Goes Full Narrowbody
From Simply Flying – link to source story – Thanks CW by James Pearson | September 20, 2021 Air Canada Rouge, the lower-cost subsidiary and leisure airline of the Canadian flag carrier, took to the skies again in September. With the B767-300ER gone, its 39-strong fleet is now exclusively Airbus. They’re used on 60 routes […]
Air Canada Launches Two New Connections to Florida and More Frequent Flights to Mexico and the Dominican Republic from Quebec City
New connections to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale starting in November 2021 The airline is resuming its international service to Punta Cana and Cancun with more frequent flights MONTREAL, July 29, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada is pleased to announce two new winter services departing from Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB): Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, two very popular sun destinations in Florida, highly favoured by Quebecers. Flights to Fort Lauderdale will start […]
Air Canada Eyes The A321LR As More A220s Set To Be Delivered
From Simple Flying – link to source story by Jake Hardiman | May 7, 2021 While Air Canada does fly the Boeing 737 MAX series, most of its narrowbody aircraft belong to Airbus families. These include the five-abreast A220 series, of which the airline is set to receive a further 15 examples by the end […]
Air Canada A319 crew failed to hear landing clearance
News provided by FlightGlobal.com – link to full story 30 October 2019 by DAVID KAMINSKI-MORROW, FlightGlobal.com Canadian investigators have disclosed that an Air Canada Airbus A319 touched down at San Francisco despite its crew’s not hearing the landing clearance. The aircraft (C-FZUJ) had been operating from Toronto on 3 October, says Transportation Safety Board of Canada. It […]
Lithuania’s GetJet provides ACMI service for Canada’s Sunwing
News provided by Air Transport World – link to full story, with a hint from P.N. Jack Wittman 24 September 2019 Lithuanian wet-lease provider GetJet Airlines has entered the Canadian market with a contract to perform flights for leisure carrier Sunwing Airlines. GetJet began flying on behalf of Toronto-based Sunwing Sept. 2 with an Airbus A319 […]
Air Canada Announces Increased Capacity and Enhanced Services to Atlantic Canada
Provided by Air Canada/CNW Toronto-Saint John, NB, Flights to be operated by Air Canada Rouge starting this winter Halifax-Calgary year-round service on Air Canada starting March 1, 2020 Toronto-Charlottetown Air Canada Rouge service now year-round Halifax-Gander additional daily flight Moncton, Fredericton-Toronto flights now operated year-round by Air Canada Rouge MONTREAL, July 3, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada today announced a host of […]
Air Canada prepares rouge subsidiary for ULCC competition
From Air Transport World – 9 August 2018 – Sean Broderick As the Canadian ULCC market heats up, Air Canada said it is prepared to leverage the significant flexibility of its rouge subsidiary to ward off competition, from adding flights in major domestic markets to re-configuring aircraft to match rivals’ all-economy offerings. “We have been preparing […]