Air Canada started out as Trans-Canada Airlines in September’37. The inaugural flight was a 50 minute flight on a Lockheed L-10A from Vancouver to Seattle, transporting mail and a total of two passengers. The airline grew rapidly and by the year’64, Trans-Canada Airlines had become the national airline for Canada. It was then that the name was changed to Air Canada. The airline was privatized in’89. Air Canada also bought Canadian Airlines International around that time.
The airline is today more than 70 years and is largest airline providing passenger service in Canada. It carries approximately 32 million passengers yearly, to 170 varied destinations worldwide. Air Canada ranked as–th among the different airlines worldwide.
The airline runs on the belief that the journey should be a convenient one for its passengers. This is why Air Canada offers flight passes. The flight passes lets the customers to handle their trip online. The flight passes can be either received through the flight credits purchased in advance, or a by a monthly subscription, which offer you unlimited flights in some fixed sectors.
Air Canada is indeed one of the world’s best airlines. This is the feedback provided from, none other than the customers of Air Canada themselves. The airline was awarded with the title of the ‘Best Airline in North America’, after a survey carried out, from August 2006 and June 2007. It also received the Airline Industry Achievement Award in 2007, for being a leader amongst all airlines. Air Canada has many ‘Best Airline in Canada and North America’ titles in its kitty, ranked by the readers of diverse travel magazines.
Besides working hard to keep their customers content and pleased, Air Canada also works hard enough to play their part in keeping the environment and nature preserved. They have initiated this process already by expending billions; and investing money in new aircrafts, which would save more energy. Air Canada has successfully reduced the emission level of their flights, by 28%. By the year 2020, the airline also has the ambition of bettering the efficiency of their fuel by 25%.
Air Canada also launched green programs in-house and recycling programs on board. They teamed up with an interesting program called ‘zerofootprint’. This program allows passengers to voluntarily offset the carbon emissions from the flight they have taken by participating in the reforestation program in Canada.
Though Air Canada is counted among the largest airlines in the world, yet it seeks the help of the other airlines to offer an extensive network of worldwide destinations to its passengers.
Graham McKenzie is the content syndication coordinator for South Arica?s leading Flight comparison & Booking portal, which includes Alitalia Airlines amongst others.