They're also in a dispute with their payment processor.
https://dailyhive.com/canada/flair-airl ... ples-trust
I'm sure it's been happening for a while, but it's a first for me. A rouge aircraft, operating with mainline AC cabin crew. Seems to be a last minute sub, last night was showing a mainline A320. AC404, YYZ-YUL. There have been a few rouge aircraft transferred back to mainline, but continue to opera...
Jump to postWhat is AC's plan with the QK E175's? Utilisation seems low. The pilot roster is sub-200 pilots, but used to be about 300 with 25 fins at normal rates of utilisation. Did Porter decimate pilot staffing on the E175 that badly? Almost all new hire courses have been assigned to CRJ/Q400 spots out west...
Jump to postDoes anyone know when they may further update their Israel schedule and policy? Right now they are offering refunds only through February which seems short in the circumstances. You would also think they would want to make a decision about what they're doing with the 789s that operate from YYZ and ...
Jump to postMost of the longer range routes for AC are, YYZ-DEL, YYZ-HKG (if it gets relaunched) and YYZ-SYD. AC will be exploring YVR-SIN, YVR-DXB and YVR-BKK as possible Extra Long Haul routes in the next couple of years. The B789s can fly most of these routes. The 19 B77Ws still have a lot of life left in t...
Jump to postIf AC is experiencing seasonality issues with their 77W’s today, then why on earth would they go for something like the 778/9 for a replacement? That would just make the problem worse. It’s too much plane with the exception of a handful of routes in peak summer. The 35K is a much more reasonable ch...
Jump to postWhiteguy wrote:Was the mid cabin lav removed for the new configuration? Were the aft lavs moved into the tail like the MAX & 220s? Hopefully not
Scrolled through and didn't see this anywhere yet. The Star Alliance C/s C-GITU has been in Mirabel since arriving there Sept 21st from Birmingham, UK with the new XLR cabin. Figured additional work was done in Trois Rivieres as opposed to Mirabel? Bill No it does not have the XLR cabin. The NA con...
Jump to postLooks like AC is ferrying a 77L to ATH as AC7060 tonight for what I suspect will be a reparation/rescue flight for people coming to Canada from Israel. AC2021 is scheduled to operate back to Canada on Friday.
Jump to postTrekkie56 wrote:They are equally invested in the A321, refurbishing the existing ones to the new interiors starting in this quarter I believe
mesasurf wrote:Has AC dropped YYZ-SLC?
tvh wrote:Which is remarkable when they allready have the 737Max and only the A321xlr on order.
880 was cancelled on Sunday, so they has two YYZ-ZRH flights operating on Monday, and therefore two ZRH-YYZ operating Tuesday. Since they can't have two flights with the same flight # operating on the same day, the extra section gets a 2xxx flight #.
Jump to postThe BA 777 was newer back then and the decision wether to repair it or not was a very tight one. This AC 77W is already past its prime. 15 years old, of which 3 years were spent in storage. G-VIIO was almost 17 years when the incident happened...it was not newer. 15 years is not past it's prime...e...
Jump to post14J/168Y is pretty leisure focussed, less than 8% of total seats dedicated to premium pax. Lie flats or not, it's effectively the replacement for the Rouge 767s. I know lie flats are contractually not permitted at Rouge, but what I'm getting at is these airplanes are packed tight, not luxury machin...
Jump to postAir Canada is launching YVR-DXB on Oct 28th, 2023. Operating 4x weekly using a 787-9.
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/m ... 52377.html
Aircellist wrote:Will the planes slow down from late October on???
Is that still the case? That agreement expired back in 2020. I thought I heard the pilots were basically integrated as one again but not sure if I misunderstood or am thinking of cabin crew. I thought that was the case as well. The CBA continues until 2024, but there are various points where a pre-...
Jump to postAre you sure? There is not a separate CBA as far as I have been able to find - can you provide a link to this? Yes, I'm sure. It's an LOU within the existing CBA between ACPA and AC. And are pay scales different? Pay rates are different as well as max duty days and bidding philosophies, among other...
Jump to postI am not sure why it matters how the existing frames are distributed. The pilot pool is the same - there isn't a separate pilot pool for Rouge. Unless something has recently changed, the rouge pilot pool is separate that operates under a different CBA with different work rules, and bidding rules am...
Jump to postI am not sure why it matters how the existing frames are distributed. The pilot pool is the same - there isn't a separate pilot pool for Rouge. Unless something has recently changed, the rouge pilot pool is separate that operates under a different CBA with different work rules, and bidding rules am...
Jump to postAcey wrote:Any chance they split the fleet and some portion of the 40 frames don't have lie-flats and are 16J/174Y like their ceo?
The first 788 also has the oldest dream cabin in the fleet (almost 9 years old). There has been rumours that the XLR will get an updated J seat but those are just rumours (is my understanding). The A330's have brand new cabins that are the same as the first 788 so it seems unlikely that there will ...
Jump to postAm I reading this right that AC is acquiring 2 Boeing 777-300 freighters in 2024? AC Cargo is on a roll... I guess those 777F's can't come soon enough! The 777 Freighters were announced in 2022. Not sure why the MD&A says they're 777-300 Freighters, as these are new builds from Boeing, not conv...
Jump to posthttps://investors.aircanada.com/image/Q4+2022+Air+Canada+MD%26A+-+English.pdf From the MD&A looks like one additional 787-9 has been ordered for delivery in 2024. That makes 3 to come. No mention that I saw of the XLR and the fleet matrix goes through year end 2024 soci can only assume they hav...
Jump to postIn weather situations, YYZ will drastically reduce their Arrival Rates which impacts AC the most, given they operate the most flights. So of course, they're going to cancel their shortest haul flights. Does YTZ need to reduce arrival rates as much when there is weather? If YYZ has to reduce arrival...
Jump to postAgreed - although they have consistently run a pretty hardy and resilient operation at the Island over the years. Of course YYZ is a different beast. Multiple times in the past I've seen an entire day of AC ops scrubbed at YQG and PD running their regular schedule. You're comparing apples and orang...
Jump to postdoogan wrote:Transport Canada has an registry of aircraft imports. It’s there along with two 321’s for Rouge. Still no sign of the 2 330’s though
Dominion301 wrote:Aren't a lot of the 320s AC brought back early 1990s builds?
Twice daily service from YYZ to YYC just announced, starting February 21st.
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/p ... 85995.html
I think the reason we all like this is that it reminds us of how flying used to be. The good old days. Wishing them the best of luck with this expansion. Call me cynical, but their standard Y offering is 30" pitch - no different than their competitors. The only thing that is different is free ...
Jump to postAs of right now, of AC's 16 333s in service, 14 are in the 787-style config, 1 (C-GFAF, fin 931) is in the XM blue config, and 1 (C-GHLM, fin 938) is likely in the 787-style config but unconfirmed (it just came out of maintenance at HKG, and is currently boarding its first revenue flight since main...
Jump to postYVR-BKK now ends on March 24, 2023 - so only a few weeks shorter than planned, but that aligns with the start of the summer schedule, so it could just be capacity increase elsewhere in the schedule. Maybe the additional 787s aren't coming on the dates originally planned, so they need to shift the ca...
Jump to postThenoflyzone wrote:Not really. AC still flies YYZ-DEL/BOM and YUL-DEL and can now up frequencies at will on those routes.
nickya340 wrote:I wonder if the 333s will be newer frames replacing older 333s from around 1999? Such as C-JFAH/J
I doubt it. The MAX order was trimmed from 61 to 40, and the MAX 9 was not exercised. With the A321XLR the fleet commonality strategy is moot. I would guess, AC used some of the funding for the full 737 order along with the options for the A321 order. And it is possible part of the deal to downsize...
Jump to postDominion301 wrote:So no A220 deliveries in 2023.
CarbonFibre wrote:I see AC are adding the roundel to the engine cowlings.
Thomaas wrote:The yields WestJet commands on intercontinental flying must be pretty bad for them to use such a capable and “premium” aircraft to Mexico.
embraer175e2 wrote:When will air canda be retiring its a319 fleet?
My trip from YQB to YVR (via YYZ) next week just got cancelled. And I realised because I went on the AC app - no email or anything. Seems messy and unprofessional. They’re offering a refund but what I really need is another ticket. Obviously prices are 2x more expensive now. Does anyone know if AC ...
Jump to postTotal meltdown ex-YUL today, from 2PM until close AC managed to get two flights out on time. Marginally better performance at YYZ. It's going to be a very long summer. Sounds like YYZ everyday these days, I'm surprised to hear YYZ was better. It's already a clusterf..., and it's not even peak trave...
Jump to posthz747300 wrote:The problem is that BKK is not really a luxury tourism market. That said though, if the flight can be premium light and packed to the rim with people wanting to find themselves, it could work.
Suspect even a 788 is too big for the route. GLA and EDI (as well as MAN) are prime XLR routes when the aircraft come into the fleet. AC could use the Max but it seems they are all committed to North America and sun destinations with the exception of LHR from Halifax and KEF. I disagree...the XLR i...
Jump to postIt's not near a deal, it's already announced: https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/news/2022 ... g-airlines
Jump to postDoes anyone have any intel as to when or if AC will be installing WiFi on the MAX 8 fleet? As someone who flies transcon regularly, my former A321 route has been replaced by a MAX 8 and it's really disrupted my work flow to be offline for two out of five business days after so many years of Airbus ...
Jump to postAs obviously stupid the passengers behavoir was why does Transport Canada need to have an investigation? We'll end up paying a bunch of bureaucrats to end up saying poo poo to the passengers in around a year or so. Don't they have other priorities (actually setting up decent airport covid testing f...
Jump to postfraT wrote:I noticed several AC wide body flight to YFB in recent days with flight numbers in the 7000 range.
Does anybody know what's behind this?
The addition of 3 789 options is discussed on page 31. On page 30 is the discussion of the un-cancelling of part, and potentially all, of the original A220 order. Also of interest on the fleet table is the removal of 3 773s from the fleet in 2021 (I guess return to lessors), but the table shows the...
Jump to postI’m hearing horror stories about connecting YUL passengers being subject to quarantine. That makes no sense to me but is anyone else hearing that? You need more information than that to determine the story. Before August 9, unvaccinated travelers needed to complete the hotel quarantine before takin...
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