Air Canada

[GTAmissions1]

Air Canada has shared the wide body aircraft schedule for winter. Citing this tweet:

https://x.com/IshrionA/status/1806453224804598183

Here is the copy and paste version:

Air Canada updates winter U.S. widebody schedule:

• Miami (MIA) receives the 777-200LR (4x weekly from YYZ, October 27 through December 31)
• Phoenix (PHX) receives the A330-300 (from YYZ)
• Las Vegas receives the A330-300 (from YYZ & YUL)
• FLL-YUL/YYZ, MCO-YYZ continues with A330s
• LAX-YUL/YYZ with 787s

At the same time, some routes will be suspended resuming in April or May 2025 depending on route. Citing this tweet:

https://x.com/IshrionA/status/1806728291241345502

Air Canada updates its schedule and suspends six U.S. cities this winter:

• Cincinnati (CVG)
• Cleveland (CLE)
• Columbus (CMH)
• Hartford (BDL)
• Indianapolis (IND)
• Kansas City (MCI)

All served from Toronto (YYZ). These suspend in October and are planned to resume in May/June 2025.

Other suspended routes:

• Montreal (YUL) to Detroit (DTW)
• Montreal (YUL) to Philadelphia (PHL)
• Montreal (YUL) to San Diego (SAN)
• Montreal (YUL) to Seattle (SEA)

Here is the winter schedule from Ottawa. Taken from this link below along with copying and pasting the relevant info for record keeping purposes:

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-boosting-service-between-ottawa-and-sun-destinations-this-winter-1.6941472

• Ottawa-Tampa increases to two weekly flights from one
• Ottawa-Orlando will increase to four weekly flights from two
• Ottawa-Fort Lauderdale will increase to six weekly flights from four
• Ottawa-Punta Cana increases to four weekly flights from three

Ottawa to US destinations: 

• Ottawa to Chicago (three times daily)
• Ottawa to New York-Newark (three times daily)
• Ottawa to Washington-Dulles (three times daily)
• Ottawa to Washington-Reagan (once daily)

Final comments:

Most likely shifting resources from the suspended routes to destinations where people are looking to go such as Florida and Mexico to better match demand. Needing to make sure that capacity is available for those destinations. 

[Cloakz]

It appears Air Canada is bringing back the 767-300er model for passanger use. Been told (2) are being sent over from the states after years of storage. 

[Thomasw]

2 hours ago, Cloakz said:

It appears Air Canada is bringing back the 767-300er model for passenger use. Been told (2) are being sent over from the states after years of storage. 

They have been at YHM for a while now getting prepped. Word is they will be ready for use in 2025 and will be used sparingly. 

[MCIBUS]

All these changes won't help if they go on strike Friday and last a while?

[9924]

For those of you following the labour dispute - a tentative has been reached.

I do know the details through internal sources, but I can't post those.  Be interesting to see if it gets ratified or not.

[New Flyer]

Effective January 3, 2025, Air Canada is removing a free carry-on on Basic tickets on inter-Canada flights, and most flights to tropical destinations including the USA. Europe and Asia are exempt.

[GTAmissions1]

Air Canada is bringing back the Ottawa to London Heathrow Airport effective March 31st.

Operating 4x weekly with a Dreamliner to better maximize efficiency alongside capacity.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/london-calling-air-canada-set-to-launch-non-stop-ottawa-london-heathrow-service/

Here is the departure and arrival times:

Departing Ottawa at 6:55 PM arriving at 6:30 AM at London Heathrow Airport 

Departing London Heathrow Airport at 12:40 PM arriving in Ottawa at 3:10 PM