Air Canada - ACA

Advantages: decent service, good flight itinerary
Disadvantages: pervading sense of incompetence, baggage disasters

...treatment at the hands of Air Canada before I forget the fine, scintillating details... We chose Air Canada for the following reasons: - A stop-over was needed to secure the deal we wanted, and Toronto is a good place to break the flying monotony. - Aside from some random Canadian marines, Canada has no direct military presence or involvement in Iraq which minimises the threat of danger and/or disruption and cancellation caused by terrorist threat. ...
...I'm thinking twice about using Air Canada (particularly via Toronto) again because: - Their ground-staff have redefined the word "inefficiency" (look in the picture dictionary and it's an Air Canada uniform). - My luggage has spent an extraordinary amount of time sitting around in Toronto enjoying the sights while I've been elsewhere. - The current spread of Air Canada operations in the under-refurbishment Toronto Pearson Airport are so convoluted ... Read review

Advantages: Worked as advertised
Disadvantages: Nothing worth talking of

...search for flights, British Airways, Air Canada and American Airlines stood out as being the most keenly priced. As the plans became more developed, American dropped out of the reckoning when both flights were routed through Canada. British Airways did compete well with regard to frequency of flights, but lost out on price. So Air Canada it was then. I had read quite a few reviews on Ciao, Tripadvisor and other such sites before booking in order ...
...made the booking via the Air Canada website. I had been monitoring this site for several months, waiting to see if the price dropped as we got nearer the departure date. This can be a risky business but the site makes it possible to access a seat plan for any given flight and check availability of seats. This makes it possible to play ‘chicken’ a little better and actually have some indication of how popular the flight is, and judge when you want ... Read review

Advantages: Good food, timely, good service
Disadvantages: Not as many perks as promised!

Air Canada On my recent trip to Toronto from Manchester (sse my review of the Hilton Toronto!), I decided to fly using the direct service form Manchester to Toronto. This direct route operates daily departing Manchester at 11.35 and arriving mid-afternoon. It departs Toronto for the return flight at 10pm arriving back in Manchester mid-morning. During the summer (and peak tourist) months, the airline adjusts its two class system from Business and ...
...I booked using the Air Canada website. As I like to know what I am getting myself into I had done quite a lot of research before hand about Air Canada including the types of planes used and the different classes of service. Having looked around I found the best prices offered on the AC flights were available by booking directly on their website. As with most airlines nowadays, you can check prices and availability and then confirm your seats, adding ... Read review

Advantages: They did not crash
Disadvantages: Did not care about safety of passengers

...the misfortune to fly with Air Canada upon leaving Australia, on my way to Hawaii. Misfortune might be too harsh a word but I will let you decide once you have heard about my 10 hour trip with them. [Check-in] We arrived at Sydney airport with plenty of time to check in, at least 3 hours. We departed from Melbourne on a Qantas flight at around 6 am, arriving at 7 am, thus 3 hours for a 10.30 am departure should have been more than sufficient. Because ...
...more happy passengers? But no, Air Canada insist on all passengers forming a line, which snaked from one end of the airport to at least a third of the way down towards the other end ( and Sydney International Airport is HUGE!) Next problem, the US requirements for baggage is 2 check-in bags per passenger. I guess its because we are going to Hawaii, but there were several passengers with huge boxes, not your average removal boxes, but like the boxes ... Read review

Advantages: Pleasant Cabin Crew, Star Alliance Member
Disadvantages: Unhelpful Ground Staff, Poor Ground Staff

...LHR-YUL THE FLIGHT Air Canada has a seat pitch of 33in again more genourous than other 'worlds favourite airlines'. The plane I travelled on was an Airbus A330-300 which was fine apart from AC's colour scheme of 'mucky green' covers on the seats seemed to make it look old and dated. The cabin crew were quite friendly but they seemed to be quite tired looking and a bit more mature looking than other airlines! One major drawback with Air Canada is ...
...and stressed out thanks to Air Canada. I've learnt my lesson the hardway in that it pays to spend a little more and FLY DIRECT!!! Those of you who are still reading this and have'nt fallen asleep by now, my return journey was a totally different ball game as Air Canada played by the rules and it all went like plain sailing!! even though it was a reverse of my outbound flights. More seems alot more easier to get back to the UK! or perhaps they ... Read review