About Air Canada

Founded in 1937, Air Canada is Canada’s flag-bearing airline with ACE Aviation Holdings as its parent. It is also Canada’s largest and the world’s 11th largest airline. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, the airline provides scheduled charter air transportation for both passengers as well as cargo, to more than 240 destinations.

It also offers vacation packages to more than 90 destinations through Vacations and training, ground handling, and maintenance services to other airlines. Besides, its main base in Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, It has hubs at Toronto Pearson International Airport and Vancouver International Airport in the Pacific.

Classes of service
For a majority of its flights, it generally offers two classes of service – Executive/Executive First and Economy. The airline, however, offers a three class service on a few of its European flights – Executive First, Economy, and Premium Economy. Air Canada Jazz, on the other hand, offers only a single class service, Economy, on almost all its flights, with Executive and Economy services only on a few regional routes through the CRJ-705 aircraft.

Executive First
‘Executive First’, popularly known as International Premium Business/First Class, is Air Canada’s premium business class product on an international level. On the airline’s A330-300, A340-300 and most of B767-300 aircrafts, seats are electronic lie flat that recline to 151 degrees. These seats have a width of 21’’ and pitch of 57-60’’. The seat configuration on Airbuses is mostly 2-2-2, whereas on Boeings, it is 1-2-2 or 2-2-1, according to the aircraft’s tail fin number.

On few B767-300 aircrafts, Air Canada has launched new cabins that offer flat beds and Personal Audio-Visual on Demand (AVOD) entertainment on seat, similar to the upper class on the Virgin Atlantic and Business Premier Class of Air New Zealand.

Executive Class
The Executive Class is first class product in North America. In this segment, the seat configuration ranges from 1-2, 2-2, to 2-2-2, in accordance with the aircraft. The seats recline to almost 120-130 degrees, and have width and pitch of 18-21’’ and 37-39’’. Entertainment in this class in mainly cabin video and not personal, however, AVOD was recently launched in select A320 aircrafts.

Premium Economy
The Premium Economy class is mostly offered on the international B767-200 aircraft, and a few B767-300s on the routes to Europe. Cabins offered in this class are similar to that of the cabins offered on the North American Executive Class, with seats pitched at 38-44’’ and 18’’ reclining, and 2-2-2 configuration. Entertainment here is provided on the main screen. In the Economy Class , featuring on all aircrafts, seats of 17-17.2’’ width are pitched at 30-34’’

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