Airlines
Air Canada Ramps Up Support Initiatives For Ukraine
Air Canada is expanding its support for Ukraine, announcing that it will be donating $10 for every booking made on www.aircanada.com to support Ukraine relief aid, with a total donation of up to $250,000. This $250,000 donation will complement the $170,000 contribution recently made by Air Canada's employees and the Air Canada Foundation to the Canadian Red Cross and other charities, as well as the ongoing humanitarian aid destined to Poland and Ukraine transported through Air Canada Cargo. As well, Aeroplan Members may donate Aeroplan points at Ukrainian Relief Fund, with 100%...
Air Canada Acquiring 26 Airbus A321neo
Air Canada is acquiring 26 extra-long range (XLR) versions of the Airbus A321neo aircraft. The aircraft has sufficient range to serve all North American and select transatlantic markets, while offering customers added comfort and improving the carrier's fuel efficiency to advance its environmental programs. Deliveries are to begin in the first quarter of 2024 with the final aircraft to arrive in the first quarter of 2027. Fifteen of the aircraft will be leased from Air Lease Corporation, five will be leased from AerCap and six are being acquired under a purchase agreement with Airbus...
Canada Jetlines Connects With Fareportal OTAs
Canada Jetlines Operations Ltd. has chosen CheapOair, OneTravel, and CheapOair.CA as the first online travel agencies to provide access to the air carrier’s flights. All three brands are part of New York-based travel technology innovator Fareportal. Canada Jetlines will begin flying in July of this year from their Toronto hub using the A320 as its fleet standard, offering the best-in-class operating economics, customer comfort and fly-by-wire technology. With the goal of providing a guest centric experience from the first touchpoint, Jetlines will use a state-of-the-art web...
Canada Jetlines Announces Stage 1 Licensing Approval
Canada Jetlines Operations Ltd advises that it has received a determination from the Canadian Transportation Agency (“CTA”) that Canada Jetlines meets the regulation requirements with regards to Canadian ownership and control, subject to filing confirming corporate documents. The CTA also completed Stage 1 “Determination of Financial Requirements” for Canada Jetlines’ application. Eddy Doyle, CEO of Canada Jetlines, said: “I am very excited that Canada Jetlines has now received Canadian ownership and control approval and the Stage 1 determination from the CTA. We are now in...
Lynx Air To Link Canada
Dubbing itself an ultra-affordable airline rather than an ultra-low cost carrier, Lynx Air has big plans for the Canadian market. During an event in Toronto yesterday (March 17), CEO Merren McArthur announced a major expansion out of the Toronto region, adding four new destinations and five new routes to its network. “By the end of July, we will be flying 92 flights per week in and out of the Toronto area, which is more than 17,000 seats per week,” said McArthur. “We're offering really great prices and that's what we want to do to attract people to our airline, but then we want to...
UPDATED – Canada Ends Pre-Arrival Testing
For the Canadian travel and tourism industry, there is good reason to celebrate today. News that the federal government is dropping the requirement of a pre-arrival COVID-19 test (either a PCR or Rapid Antigen test) for arriving travellers has long been called for by the industry and those calls have finally been heard. The announcement of the removal of the pre-arrival testing requirement was made by federal health minister, Jean-Yves Duclos, transport minister, Omar Alghabra and tourism minister, Randy Boissonnault. While travellers arriving in Canada will no longer need to...
The World Is Opening Up
IATA is welcoming what it describes as “the increasing momentum towards re-opening of borders and relaxation of travel restrictions, as COVID-19 moves into the endemic phase.” The airline industry’s association come following Canada’s March 17 announcement that it was removing the pre-arrival testing requirement for fully vaccinated travellers coming to the country. In a survey that IATA did of travel restrictions for the world’s top 50 air travel markets (comprising 88% of international demand in 2019 as measured by revenue passenger kilometers), the association...
Air Canada Expands Its South Pacific Network
Air Canada is taking off with a strategic expansion of its South Pacific schedule with the return of daily service to Sydney and resumption of services to both Brisbane and Auckland. The carrier’s Australia and New Zealand flights operate from its trans-Pacific hub at Vancouver International Airport which the carrier has built to conveniently connect its international network to its vast North American network. Seats are available for purchase now at www.aircanada.com. Mark Galardo, Senior Vice President, Network Planning and Revenue Management at Air Canada, said that: “Air...