Looking for an adventure? Visit the Canadian Arctic. These flights can be very expensive, but award flights using Aeroplan miles require just 12,500 points in economy class. This includes connecting flights on Air Canada.
Air Canada in summer 2019 season is increasing Montreal – Tel Aviv service, during peak travel season. From 20JUN19 to 08SEP19, the airline will add 3rd weekly flight on this route, operated by A330-300 aircraft.
AC082 YUL1800 – 1120+1TLV 333 347
AC083 TLV1250 – 1735YUL 333 145
The route development forum for the Americas
Québec City, Canada • 12 – 14 February 2019
The 12th Routes Americas will take place in Québec City, Canada and is your opportunity to meet with senior decision makers from the region’s airlines, airports and destinations to discuss new market opportunities and the evolution of existing services.
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Our neighbors to the north are nothing if not friendly, and Air Canada offers its Aeroplan frequent flyer program with a uniquely Canadian twist. But even if you’re not planning on visiting the country — or even flying on Air Canada anytime soon — you’ll find plenty of reasons to participate in the Aeroplan program.
This is especially applicable with the recent news from Capital One that you’ll soon be able transfer your miles to Aeroplan at a 2:1.5 ratio. With limited-time offers on both the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card and the Capital One Spark Miles for Business, now’s a great time to start digging into the newly announced transfer partners so you can start planning your next vacation.
Today, I’ll examine how you can book award flights with Aeroplan, continuing my series on award flight booking from previous guides for Alaska, American, Delta and United.
New technologies, practices, and vendors are emerging to help airlines distribute their airfares. The new landscape is complex. But Air Canada’s latest effort reveals at least one part of the emerging picture. The airline industry has talked a lot about how it can use new distribution capabilities to embrace novel ways of retailing airfares to corporate and leisure travelers. But airlines and travel agencies have only begun to process transactions via the new ways. The shape of the future is unclear. For a glimpse at what may come, look to Air Canada, which this week processed its first transaction via a new platform called NDC Exchange. Before explaining what that is and its significance, let’s set the scene.
ravellers flying with Air Canada between Vancouver and Hong Kong will be able to experience the airline’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft throughout the winter season as the aircraft is set to take over the route from the current 777-300ER.
The Dreamliner will fly the daily route from October 29, 2018 until March 30, 2019.
The change of aircraft will mean a significant drop in overall capacity on the 13-hour flight. Air Canada’s 777-300ERs are configured in two variants, each with more than 400 seats, while the Dreamliner has just 298 seats overall.
Fortunately for premium passengers, this drop is largely in the economy class cabin with just a slight decrease in the premium cabins. The Dreamliner has 30 seats in business class compared with 28 or 40 on the 777-300ER, depending on the configuration, and 21 seats in premium economy versus 24.
MONTREAL, June 29, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada Rouge is celebrating its birthday, marking five years of providing customers with memorable beginnings and endings to their holidays. From its first flight on Canada Day 2013, Air Canada’s leisure carrier has grown to more than 50 aircraft from four, expanded to over 100 routes on five continents from an initial 14 routes, flown more than 25 million customers, and directly created 2,000 high-quality jobs for Canadians.
“In five short years Air Canada Rouge has established itself as an integral part of our Air Canada family by delivering an excellent customer experience in key leisure markets and in helping achieve our strategic business objectives. It allows us to offer travellers a much greater variety of attractive destinations while enabling us to successfully compete in an evolving industry. In doing so, it has exceeded all our expectations,” said Benjamin Smith, President, Airlines and Chief Operating Officer, at Air Canada. “I commend our team at Air Canada Rouge for their devotion to making every flight memorable and I thank our customers for entrusting us with their holiday plans by choosing to fly with Air Canada Rouge.”
For summer 2018, Air Canada Rouge has added more exciting international and domestic routes, including: Toronto and Montreal to Bucharest; Toronto to Porto and Zagreb; Toronto to Nanaimo and Kamloops, B.C.; Montreal to Lisbon and Montreal to Victoria, B.C.
Launched on July 1, 2013, Air Canada Rouge has continually refined its services for customers, including upgrades to its streaming in-flight entertainment system, new onboard food options and enhancements to the Premium Rouge cabin. Air Canada Rouge has also begun offering high-speed, satellite internet aboard its aircraft, giving customers access to the fastest internet service on a Canadian airline.
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/air-canada-rouge-celebrates-its-fifth-birthday-686924421.html
MONTRÉAL, le 1er juin 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – Le départ, aujourd’hui, du vol AC005 marque le lancement du tout premier vol régulier entre Montréal et le Japon. Les vols seront assurés toute l’année par 787 Dreamliner de Boeing, le fleuron du parc aérien d’Air Canada, quotidiennement durant la haute saison estivale, puis trois fois par semaine au cours de l’hiver. Le nouveau service transpacifique d’Air Canada au départ de sa plaque tournante de Montréal est pensé pour optimiser la connectivité avec plusieurs villes au Canada et aux États-Unis, dont Québec, Ottawa, Halifax, Charlottetown, Boston, Philadelphie et Orlando.
MONTRÉAL, le 15 nov. 2017 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada facilite encore plus la vie de ses clients en devenant le premier transporteur aérien canadien à mettre au point une compétence pour le très populaire service vocal d’Amazon, Alexa. Les appareils dotés d’Alexa utiliseront l’apprentissage automatique et l’intelligence artificielle pour répondre aux questions orales des clients portant, notamment, sur le calcul des prix et l’état des vols d’Air Canada.
« Les progrès réalisés dans les technologies novatrices, comme l’intelligence artificielle et le traitement du langage naturel sont très prometteurs pour faciliter davantage l’expérience de nos clients », a déclaré Mark Nasr, vice-président – Fidélisation et Commerce électronique à Air Canada. « Nous sommes ravis de travailler avec la jeune entreprise d’intelligence artificielle RozieAI, afin de lancer cette compétence pour que les clients au Canada puissent accéder aux services d’Air Canada avec rapidité et simplicité, au moyen de leur voix. »
Il suffira aux clients d’Air Canada de poser des questions pour obtenir des renseignements de voyage utiles au moyen de leur appareil doté d’Alexa. La compétence mise au point par Air Canada permettra d’abord à Alexa de renseigner les clients sur l’état de leur vol, de leur fournir des calculs de prix ainsi que de leur indiquer à quel carrousel ils doivent se rendre pour récupérer leurs bagages après le vol. En outre, d’autres thèmes devraient s’ajouter ultérieurement. De plus, Alexa fournira des réponses générales aux questions sur l’application mobile d’Air Canada, les documents de voyage obligatoires, la disponibilité du précontrôle de la TSA et certaines politiques de billetterie.
MONTREAL, Nov. 15, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada is offering customers additional convenience by becoming the first Canadian airline to develop a skill for Amazon’s popular voice service, Alexa. Devices with Alexa will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to respond to spoken questions about such things as fare quotes and the status of Air Canada flights.
“Advances in innovative and new technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing have great promise to deliver more convenience for our customers,” said Mark Nasr, Vice President of Loyalty and eCommerce at Air Canada. “We’re thrilled to be working with artificial intelligence start-up RozieAI to launch this capability so that customers across Canada can access AC services quickly and simply, using their voice.”
Simply by asking, Air Canada customers will be able to obtain useful travel information from their devices with Alexa. The skill developed by Air Canada will initially enable Alexa to tell customers the status of their flight, provide fare quotes, and which baggage carousel to go to pick up baggage after a flight, with further topics to be added in the future. Additionally, Alexa will provide general answers about Air Canada’s mobile app, required travel documents, TSA precheck availability and certain ticket policies.