Talk:Air Canada/Archive 1

message: 1. ^ "Aircraft General Terms Agreement between The Boeing Company and Air Canada", SEDAR (Note: 18MB PDF document)
Remove it?
DSatYVR 02:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References Link is Dead 

message: Shall we mention the fact that "Air Canada" is one of Vince Carter's common nicknames? --TML1988 19:00, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. PrinceAndrew 18:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Lol --Adam Wang 00:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vince Carter 

message: This section of "Other fact of interest" has been removed from the article.  I read through the act and found no references to Air Canada or air carrier language requirements (though, that isn't to say that it wasn't once a requirement).  I suggest that if this is restored to the article that a source be posted.
*Air Canada is the only airline in Canada regulated by the Official Languages Act.   In-flight services must be provided in both official languages on any route that:
**Starts, has an intermediate stop or finishes at an airport located in the National Capital Region, the Montreal census metropolitan area or the City of Moncton
**Starts and finishes at airports located in the same province, where that province has a linguistic minority population that is equal to at least 5% of the total population (Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick)
**Runs between two of these provinces.
On other routes, services must be provided in both official languages when the demand for service in the minority official language is equal to at least 5% of the total demand.  Air Canada was recently ordered by the Federal Court of Canada to apologize to a passenger who had complained about the absence of service in French on a flight to Ottawa.
:I too have been unable to find it in the Official Languages Act, however, the Air Canada Public Participation Act clearly refers to the fact that the O.L.Act states that service must be provided in both languages. Recent statements from AC executives have also discussed the requirements under the O.L.Act for bilingual service. Therefore, we must be blind and it must be in there somewhere. So, this section on Official Languages should be restored. PrinceAndrew 18:01, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official Languages Act 

message: I have one source- that speaks about the past 1960's proposal for the Government of Canada (through Air Canada) to buy majority control of 1) British West Indian Airways (BWIA), 2) Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT), and 3) Air Jamaica, from the governments of the time in the British West Indies.   In exchange, they would have to use Air Canada as their national airline with the 3 subsidaries remaining and the Commonwealth-Caribbean governments would then all pooling their equity into Air Canada instead.  Has anyone come across any further details about these talks that supposedly broke down when Air Jamaica refused any outright buy-out by Air Canada?
It's covered in the book:
* Carmichael, Dr. Trevor A. 2001. Passport to the Heart: Reflections on Canada Caribbean Relations. Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston 6, Jamaica.  The book's Forward passage, synopsis
Chapter 2, Pgs. 35-54.  CaribDigita 16:09, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trying to find more sources about proposed BWIA, LIAT, AIR Jamaica buyout. 

message: Air Canada has 12 Airbus A321 on order, and 10 of them are delievered. 2 Airplanes are still not delievered and in this article it says there are no orders for A321.
More detail can be found on List of A321 Orders article.
Any suggentions?
The Airbus website shows no more orders for A321s - see: Airbus - the orders don't exist.  This entry should be removed.
There  are two aircrafts (both A321s) to be delivered to Air Canada.  Check this article, List of Airbus A320 orders Dk16 19:58, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air Canada A321 Orders 

message: The list of fleet for Air Canada doesn't show that there are 2 B777F on order... I added it in the list but someone keeps on removing it! Please leave it there because AC has ordered 2 777F and is the launch customer for that model, along with Air France-KLM. Thank You. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dk16 (talk • contribs).
:Your changes were reverted because you supersized the images and made other less-than-desirable changes. I should have left this change alone. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:58, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boeing 777F Orders 

message: Only Montréal airport is going to accomadate the A380, I'm not so sure about Toronto Pearson.  Is there also a source that can indicate this?  To me it just doesn't make any sense!
: 3 major Canadian airports are ready to handle the Airbus A380 including Montreal International, Toronto Pearson, and Vancouver International. Check out this link. http://www.atca.org/singlenews.asp?item_ID=2169&comm=0
Ok that's a little better, another thing I forgot to mention was that just because those airports will eventually get the A380s in the future, it doesn't mean that Air Canada will add those to its fleet.
: Don't expect Air Canada to ever add the A380 to their fleet. Canada just doesn't have the market for such large capacity. Air Canada is more interested in smaller aircraft with greater flight frequency. Sure there may be a couple routes that could use the A380, but that's all, and so that wouldn't justify the overall cost. PrinceAndrew 18:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air Canada and the A380 

message: The intro, sometime in the last couple weeks, has turned into a giant morass of disjointed facts and figures, most of which are entirely irrelevant to an encyclopedia article introduction. If no one else gets around to it in the next 24-48 hours, I'm going to take a crack at a serious rewrite of the intro.--chris.lawson 05:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No one changed the intro... When are you going to change it? Dk16 19:50, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro 

message: Is Calgary a hub or a focus city?  In the infobox, it was listed as a focus city for quite a while. On July 28, someone moved it up to the "hub" row. On August 1, someone moved it back down to the "focus city" row. On August 9, someone moved it up to the "hub" row again.  Rather than having a quiet edit war about it, it might be better to discuss the issue here and come to a consensus. --WillNL 13:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked their website and it says Calgary is a secondary hub for Air Canada. Dk16 20:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmm...I just had a look, and here  it says that "Primary hubs are located in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary."  Where was it that you read that Calgary is a secondary hub?  It seems like AC  must have contradictory info on their site. WillNL 16:06, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone has changed Calgary from a hub to a focus city.  Primary hubs are located in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary according to Air Canada.  See here.  I will attempt a revert.--Rosetown 18:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calgary: hub or focus city? 

message: Shouldn't Montreal be a secondary hub?  I don't believe it has any "unique" destinations like Toronto or Vancouver.  The majority of "spoke" traffic goes through Pearson, and many passengers need to fly from Montreal to Toronto in order to reach their final destination. I would classify it as a secondary hub at most. Jdkm 20:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are not the one who decides if Montreal is a secondary or major hub.. Its the airline who decides that, and also I checked their website, it says Montreal is a major hub for Air Canada. Dk16 20:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Montreal: Secondary hub? 

message: There has been an addition in the Air Canada orders' list.  Someone added 4 orders for Airbus A380.  There are no orders shown for Air Canada in Airbus A380 article.  Can someone please confirm if they did ordered any Airbus A380s.  Thanks. Dk16 19:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air Canada A380 Orders 

message: I re-organized and cleaned up the page. I have added headings in accordance with the 'Wikiproject: Airlines' program. I have left room for more info to be added. What do you think of the new layout??? (Greenboxed 21:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's great. Nice job! --WillNL 01:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page Re-organization

message: I think we should update the pictures with new ones.
We could remove the 767 photo at the top and replace it with a newer aircraft like Airbus A340-500, the largest jet in AC's fleet.
In the In-Flight Entertainment section, there should be a picture showing the new PTVs in the Embraer fleet or A340-500.
Any comments/suggestions? Dk16 18:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Pics 

message: The header rows for each table in the Fleet section have been changing colour a lot lately -- from light green to pink to blush to silver to yellow to corn (!) to green.  Right now the header for the Air Canada table is dark red, the header for the orders table is grey, and the header for the Jazz table is dark green.  Is there any reason why each table should have a different colour header?  I think's it's a little distracting, and I also think it's somewhat difficult to read black text on a dark-coloured background (as in the AC table).  I think I'll change all three headers to the same colour, unless someone can enlighten me as to why they ought to be different. --WillNL 19:55, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think each table should have it's own colour, it diffarentiates each fleet and makes them seem like their own, which they are. If they are all under one colour, it groups them together (in my mind) and makes them seem like a whole. I prefer that they each had a different colour.Greenboxed 20:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Colour in fleet tables

message: This article failed the GA noms due to lack of references. Tarret 18:18, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed GA

message: I think we should put more pictures into the article. --Adam Wang 00:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: There is a claim that Air Canada became the 12th largest airline after its merger with Canadi<n. Firstly, is this by RSM, Revenue, Market Capitalization, ASM, etc? This needs a source and I cannot find it. UAAC 04:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twelfth largest airline 

message: I have updated and re-written some aspects of the old 'Cabin Classes' and 'Services' sections and incorporated them into one new section - 'Onboard'.  I feel that this makes the information clearer as to the differences between the aircraft in the Air Canada fleet. Genius12 17:39, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Onboard