An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max aircraft flying from Arizona to Montreal, Canada, was forced into an unscheduled landing because of an engine problem, the airline said Friday. The aircraft was diverted soon after take off on December 22 when the crew received an “engine indication” and “decided to shut […]

Air Canada is deploying its premium-only configured Airbus A319s that typically fly sports charters onto domestic routes this summer. Select flights on the Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes will be upgraded to the unique sub-fleet known as Air Canada Jetz that features all-business class seating on its aircraft. The seats will […]

Dallas-based travel blogger and photographer Andy Luten took to the skies to document the effects of the pandemic on air travel, visiting six airports across the American Southwest home to grounded aircraft. Chartering a helicopter at each location, Luten got a unique aerial perspective of the hundreds of grounded jets […]

Pinal Air Park in Arizona is best known for being an aircraft boneyard where ageing aircraft are stored and scrapped for parts. Iconic airliners from yesteryear including the Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 line the taxiways and parking areas of the isolated airfield. Delta Air Lines, among others, are […]

The reduction in the demand for travel has caused some airlines to move up retirement dates for their ageing aircraft. Older, inefficient aircraft are among those on the chopping block as airlines turn to next-generation aircraft such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350 XWB. Virgin Atlantic Airways retired […]

An Air Canada flight headed for Toronto took off from Madrid’s Barajas airport on Monday afternoon, suffered damage during takeoff, and was forced to circle the airport for six and a half hours before making an emergency landing. The Boeing 767 plane was carrying 128 passengers and eight crew members, […]

Air Canada took delivery of its newest aircraft, the Airbus A220, in December and unveiled it to the public on January 15. The airline plans to deploy the aircraft domestically and to US destinations including Seattle, New York, and San Jose, California. The aircraft has a long history that saw […]

A passenger filmed the moment that a wheel fell off an Air Canada Express plane during takeoff. The video shows flames in the wheel and then the wheel falling off the plane, as a passenger says in French: “It fell!” The De Havilland Dash 8-300 was being operated by Jazz […]

What was supposed to be a two-hour domestic flight turned into a nightmarish 36-hour international journey for Air Canada passengers. A flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, was unable to land in its intended destination of Whitehorse, Yukon, because of the weather and had to fly out of the country to […]

An Air Canada Boeing 787-8 flight had to turn around Saturday when the crew spotted a crack in the windshield. Flight 857 was due to fly from London to Toronto but instead landed in Dublin because of the incident. The flight had already flown beyond Ireland and was over the […]

Air Canada has earned several awards, including being named the “Best Business Class in North America” during the 2019 Skytrax World Airline Awards. I flew the airline’s Business Class – Signature Class for one leg of the trip and standard business for the other – on a trip from Vancouver […]

Air Canada is changing its onboard announcement policies to refer to passengers as “everybody” instead of the gender-specific “ladies and gentlemen.” The policy is “part of our commitment to respect sexual identity, diversity, and inclusion,” the company said in an internal memo published by La Presse news site. The Canadian […]

Airlines including American Airlines, United, and Air Canada are selling thousands of flights on Boeing 737 Max planes this year, even as the planes remain grounded, the UK’s The Sunday Times newspaper reported. The planes have been grounded since March, far longer than the industry expected, with some airlines now […]

An Air Canada flight made an emergency landing on Thursday after extreme turbulence injured dozens of passengers. Video footage showed the inside of the cabin after the turbulence, which injured 37 people and saw 30 people taken to a hospital. One passenger said there were “literally bodies on the ceiling […]

An Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Sydney hit unexpected severe turbulence early Thursday morning, leaving 37 people on board injured. The flight, AC33, diverted to Honolulu, Hawaii. A representative for the airline described the injuries as “minor.” Visit Business insider’s homepage for more stories. An Air Canada flight was […]

A woman with vision impairment who needed a wheelchair to leave an Air Canada flight was left alone on the empty parked plane in April. Pamela Prescod, 69, told Canada’s CTV News this week that she was left alone on the plane for an hour and was “traumatized” by the […]

Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 crashed minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport on Sunday. According to Flight Global, roughly a third of the 371 Boeing 737 MAX jets in operation have been grounded. Chinese airlines have the largest fleet with 97 planes. US airlines have the second […]