Air Canada is the main carrier and the largest Canadian airline. Discovered in the year 1936, this has been providing air transport for all cargo and passengers to around more than 178 destinations across the world. This is the ninth largest airline in terms of carrying passengers being taken to a destination and is also the founding member of the Star Alliance. This Star Alliance is incidentally a group of around 26 member airlines that was formed sometime in the year 1997. Montreal is the corporate headquarters of Air Canada and Toronto Pearson International Airport is the main and largest hub of this airline. This airport is situated in Mississauga in Ontario.
With passenger revenue of around 9.7 billion dollars, this has the Air Canada Express as the regional air service. It was from the Canadian Federal Government’s Trans Canada Airlines or the TCA that was formed in the year 1936 that the national airline originated.
Then in 1965, the airline was renamed as Air Canada. In the year 2001, the airline took over the Canadian Airlines and in 2004 after having filed for bankruptcy protection, the Air Canada got restructured under the ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. By the year 2006 more than 34 million had flown Air Canada and the airline had celebrated its 70th anniversary.
Today Air Canada has a proud fleet consisting of the Boeing 767, the Airbus A330, the Boeing 777 jetliners with the wide body used for long routes, and the Airbus A 320 family aircraft, and also the A321, the A 319, and the A 320 and also the Embraer E170/E190 family aircraft. The operating divisions of the carrier are the Air Canada Jetz and the Air Canada Cargo. The Air Canada vacations give vacation deals to more than 90 places across the world. Thus there are more than 1,370 scheduled flights every day that traverse the world with the regional partners.
The Air Canada airlines went through a makeover in the year 2006 which was called the Project XM or the Extreme Makeover. Thus new cabins were installed in all the aircrafts and new Boeing 777 were delivered. So today there are new horizontal fully flat Executive First Suites and personal AVOD in the economy class and the executive class. There are larger AVOD equipped with Senhieiser headphones in the Executive First Class. Interactive games XM Radio Canada is made available at every seat. There are USB ports to recharge all the electronic devices and also for using game controllers with 120 Volt AC plug in all the seats in all the classes.
The Air Canada Centre is today a seven storey building that serves as the main headquarters of Air Canada and is situated in the Montreal Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport and also in Saint Laurent in Montreal.
Air Canada Cargo is today the company’s division for carriage of freight and offers more than 150 places where cargo is shipped. There are departure points to send cargo to the European destinations in the Eastern Canada departure points. Then there are direct services to Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris. There is a new cargo terminal in Toronto which has the best kind of conveyor and inventory systems.
You also have Air Canada Vacations which is a branch of Air Canada providing leisure travel packages , tours, cruises, excursions and car rentals and also giving services to destinations across the world like South America, North and Central America, Caribbean, Europe and South Pacific.
So pack your bags and fly via Air Canada.
