Air Canada operates final cabin-loaded cargo flight, returning aircraft to passenger service
17 May 2022 Air Canada has operated its final cabin-loaded cargo-only flight using its fleet of temporarily converted passenger aircraft. Flight AC7272, operated with an Airbus A330-300 aircraft, touched down in Toronto from Bogota on May 14 for what was the last cabin-loaded flight operated with a mix of Boeing 777s and A330s. The A330-300 […]
Air Canada stops cargo-in-the-cabin preighter flights
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New Year Prospects: Air Canada’s Fleet In 2022
From Simple Flying – link to source story by Chris Loh | January 1, 2022 Continuing its slow recovery from the worst of the global health crisis, major Canadian airline Air Canada the growth of its fleet in 2021. Notably, this consisted of the addition of a number of Airbus A220-300s as well as several […]
Cargojet order launches Mammoth 777-200LR freighter programme
From Flight Global – link to source story By David Kaminski-Morrow | 17 November 2021 Canadian carrier Cargojet Airways has emerged as the launch customer for the Boeing 777-200LR freighter conversion initiated by US-based Mammoth Freighters. Cargojet is to take a pair of the converted twinjets, and will hold options on another pair – as well […]
Air Canada Begins Work to Enhance Cold Chain Handling Capabilities at its Toronto Pearson Cargo Facility
Project will increase and diversify freight handling capabilities as part of Air Canada Cargo expansion strategy MONTREAL, Oct. 1, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada today announced the start of a $16-million project to expand and enhance Air Canada Cargo’s cold chain handling capabilities for shipments such as pharmaceuticals, fresh food and other perishables at its Toronto Pearson International Airport […]
Air Canada Cargo marks milestone with 10,000th cargo-only flight since onset of the pandemic
5 July 2021 When worldwide travel was dramatically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020, it had severe consequences on the movement of goods around the world by air as passenger flights, which carried up to 59% of air cargo globally, disappeared almost overnight. The Air Canada and Air Canada Cargo teams understood […]
Air Canada’s Fleet In 2021
From Simple Flying – link to source story byChris Loh June 12, 2021 3 minute read As Canada’s largest airline, Air Canada has a diverse fleet based across its four hub airports. The network airline has a mix of both widebody and narrowbody aircraft coming from both Airbus and Boeing. The carrier has gone through […]
Air Canada Cargo Announces Launch Routes For its Newly Converted Freighter Aircraft Arriving This Fall
MONTREAL, June 14, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada and Air Canada Cargo today announced the initial list of planned routes for the Boeing 767-300ER freighters scheduled to enter service this fall. Air Canada is in the process of fully converting several of its Boeing 767 aircraft into dedicated freighters in order to fully participate in global cargo commercial opportunities. […]
Inaccurate Airborne Status Transmitted by Transponders and its Effect on Runway Monitoring and Conflict Alert Systems – Civil Aviation Safety Alert
Purpose: The purpose of this Civil Aviation Safety Alert (CASA) is to raise awareness to aircraft owners, operators and Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSP) on an issue related to operation of aircraft equipped with the Honeywell Primus Epic integrated avionics system transponders. Background: The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) recently advised Transport Canada of an occurrence […]
Parking brake not applied before Air Canada 777-300ER towbar accident
From Flight Global – link to source story By David Kaminski-Morrow | 14 April 2021 French investigators have found that an Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER’s parking-brake had not been applied before one of the individuals in a pushback tractor was injured as he worked to disconnect the towbar. The individual was a driver instructor and was […]