Air Canada now has simply over 30 Airbus A220-300s in its fleet. First ordering the sort when it was nonetheless generally known as the Bombardier CS300, the Canadian provider is deploying the Canadian-designed jet in all types of roles. Certainly, lots of the routes utilizing the A220 are incredible demonstrations of the sort’s versatility. Let’s have a look at the place Air Canada’s A220s have been flying.
Brief routes, lengthy routes
Air Canada’s A220s are being deployed throughout North America out of their Canadian hub airports. Based mostly on flight historical past offered by FlightRadar24.com, the plane are primarily working out of Toronto and Montreal, with extra restricted operations happening from Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver.
The record beneath shouldn’t be used as a information for reserving flights. Certainly, on some routes, the jets have since been swapped out for the bigger Boeing 737 MAX 8, or had been merely short-term stand-ins for different plane, such because the Embraer 175.
Out of Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport (YYZ), A220s have been logged serving the next locations in no specific order:
- Montreal
- Ottawa
- New York (each Newark and LaGuardia)
- Nashville
- Raleigh-Durham
- Washington Dulles
- St. John’s
- Salt Lake Metropolis
- Denver
- Thunder Bay
- Portland
- San Jose
- Seattle
- Saskatoon
Along with the aforementioned Montreal-Toronto service, A220s from Montreal Trudeau Airport (YUL) have been serving the next cities:
- Calgary
- Edmonton
- Winnipeg
- Boston
- St. John’s
- Ottawa
- Denver
- Halifax
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
- San Diego
- Miami
- New York (LGA)
And, lastly, listed here are a number of different routes which have lately been served by Air Canada’s A220s:
- Ottawa-Calgary
- Ottawa-Edmonton
- Calgary-Los Angeles
- Calgary-Halifax
- Vancouver-Montreal
- Vancouver-San Francisco
- Vancouver-Los Angeles
A visualization of a few of Air Canada’s most energetic A220 airports. Picture: GCMap.com
Incredible versatility
Simply by wanting on the lengthy record of A220 companies which were or are presently being operated by Air Canada, we will see that the airline is deploying the sort in all types of roles.
First, the A220 operates on numerous high-volume routes to supply extra frequencies. Brief hops have included companies from Montreal and Toronto to New York, in addition to between Montreal and Toronto. There’s even the extraordinarily quick, 151km journey between Montreal and Ottawa – two airports that may take roughly two hours to drive between utilizing a personal automobile. The provider additionally dietary supplements longer high-volume companies with the sort, together with Vancouver to Montreal, Vancouver-San Francisco, and Vancouver-Los Angeles. The Vancouver-Montreal route particularly additionally sees service with the Boeing 777, Airbus A330, and Boeing 737 MAX 8, with round 5 companies per day.
The airline has additionally been utilizing the A220 on quick and medium low-demand companies resembling to Nashville and Raleigh-Durham.
The airline now has over 30 Airbus A220-300s in its fleet. Picture: Air Canada
Lastly, Air Canada is demonstrating how the A220 is a incredible enabler for “long-and-skinny” companies. These are routes which have low-demand relative to different companies, however might not have been attainable with older small plane, or might not have been worthwhile with bigger plane able to the vary. That is greatest demonstrated by flights like Ottawa to Edmonton, and Toronto to Portland.
With Canada having quite a few inhabitants facilities huge and small unfold out over a significantly massive space, the Airbus A220 seems to be an ideal match for its nationwide provider.
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