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Air Canada to Offer Customers Increased Overhead Storage Room with New Airspace Cabin on Airbus A220 Fleet
Air Canada today announced that it will be the launch customer for the Airbus Airspace cabin on the A220 family of aircraft, giving customers more overhead storage space. The first aircraft to receive the new bins are scheduled to be delivered early in 2026.
The A220 Airspace cabin features new XL bins, increasing the overhead capacity of bags by more than 15%, and will also include a new ceiling design and lighting. The introduction of the new Airspace cabin has been timed to coincide with additional Air Canada upgrades including an updated cabin interior and seat back entertainment.
Source: media.aircanada.com
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 Editors' Note: Our friend, David Varnes, has written an excellent (and more detailed) article on the same aircraft in the most recent issue of 'The Snag Sheet', the monthly newsletter for Canadian Airways Lodge 764 in Richmond, British Columbia. Click the icon to view. |
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Air Canada - CF-TIS
Glasgow - Prestwick - April 11, 1976 Photo courtesy of Don Gilham
Editors' Note: Original livery.
Black paint on the nose and company name. |
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Air Canada - C-FTIS
(after re-registration) Dusseldorf - August 4, 1979
Photo courtesy of Udo Haafke |
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Air Canada Cargo - C-FTIS
London - Heathrow - October 14, 1984 Just a few months after it was converted from -63AF to -73AF, in June 1984
Photo and comment courtesy of Lewis Grant |
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DHL Airways - N805DH
Miami - February 1999 Photo courtesy of Lewis Grant |
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DHL Airways - N805DH
Los Angeles - February 15, 2012
Photo courtesy of Danny Grew |
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Skybus Jet Cargo - OB-2231P
Miami - March 28, 2023 Photo courtesy of Jack1
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Air Canada's first ever TV Commercials [PART 1] - From the Archives
Our friend, Henry Tenby digitized Air Canada's historic film archives in 2012, by special arrangement with Archives Canada. This show features the earliest black and white TV commercials produced for Air Canada during the mid 1960s, and feature Air Canada's first jet aircraft of the day, the DC-8.
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Canadian Election Campaign Aircraft: What Are Candidates Flying?
Canada's federal election has once again created leasing opportunities for airlines. However, for this election, the New Democrats have not leased a dedicated aircraft (neither the Green Party nor the Bloc Québécois have ever leased dedicated aircraft).
The Conservatives and Liberals have leased A319s from Air Canada. Fin #251 (Pierre Poilievre) and fin #252 (Mark Carney) have been in the Air Canada fleet for close to thirty years.
Click the image below to view a video from Simple Flying.
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 Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.
Starting April 10, Brazil is reinstating a visa requirement for citizens of Canada, the United States or Australia. They must now apply for an electronic visa (eVisa) at a fee of US$80.90, valid for a stay of up to 90 days.
This applies to passport holders from those countries who are arriving by air, land or sea. Source: nationalpost.com
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Air Labrador.
The airline was established and started operations in 1948, as Newfoundland Airways operating float-equipped aircraft from a base in Gander, Newfoundland on charter, mail and freight work to northern Newfoundland and Labrador. Its motto was "The Spirit of Flight" ("Esprit du vol" en français). In March 2009, the company announced they were ceasing flight service to Montreal due to financial trouble. Airline service ended in Newfoundland in May 2009. The airline continued to fly within Labrador and Quebec, as well as St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador until its merger in 2017 with Innu Mikun Airlines to form Air Borealis. |
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C-GTMB Beechcraft 1900D
Photo courtesy of Pierre Gillard |