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Tout à fait ! *Bon le autel racoon du hublo des pilotes me laisse perplexe, mais pour le reste ..... *j'aime ! *Et faut penser plus moins, le noir et rouge ne sont pas exemple d'originalité, mais s'intègrent parfaitement à une ligne de produits (salon, papeterie,plats, et autres design graphiques )

C'est un mix entre les années 60 et 80. Franchement, qui va se souvenir de la version bleu poudre et de la feuille d'érable stylisée ennuyeuse sur la version 2004-2016. Je ne me souvenais même plus que la queue a déjà été verte de 1993 à 2003. Ce qui a marqué c'est la feuille d'érable dans la rondelle rouge des années 70-80 et après 25 ans il était temps qu'elle revienne. C'est ce qui identifie Air Canada depuis toujours. Et le noir fait très années 60 et très 'hard'. Enfin, Air Canada s'assume après 20 ans de design ennuyeux.
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Air Canada’s plan of attack flies over America | Montreal Gazette

 

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Published on: February 15, 2017 | Last Updated: February 15, 2017 7:22 AM EST

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When it comes to maintaining domestic air superiority, U.S. carriers have been shaking their fists at Persian Gulf airlines that have rapidly increased their American presence. Yet there’s another threat that may be growing in their own backyard— or more precisely, just north of it.

Air Canada (TSX: AC) has been around for 80 years, but only recently sought to parlay torrid growth into global ambition. The company aims to turn its three major Canadian hubs into larger transfer points for global travelers crossing North America. Flying to Europe or Asia? Try Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver as your connection— you may very well like these airports far more than Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles, Air Canada is telling travelers. And the carrier isn’t shy about singing its own praises.

“Every time an American flies up on us they go ‘Oh my God, you’re the best-kept secret. How did we not know about this?'” said Ben Smith, Air Canada’s president of passenger airlines. “That is what’s music to my ears.”

Air Canada’s full-year 2016 results are expected Friday, and will probably continue a remarkable financial turnaround that began after what Chief Executive Officer Calin Rovinescu described as “the near-death crisis years” of 2008-2009. The carrier has been radically increasing its international footprint, and in the second and third quarters of 2017 will become the champion of long-haul capacity growth. That seating capacity comes atop annual, overall capacity growth averaging about 20 per cent. As it ramps up seasonal flying this spring, Air Canada’s total long-haul capacity will exceed 18 percent, surpassing Emirates, which has been adding new routes from Dubai to just about everywhere. In the summer quarter, long-haul seat growth will top 10 percent.

[h=3]New American routes[/h]With these powerful numbers as a backdrop, Air Canada is launching an all-out assault to the south. In May, the airline launches new service to a half dozen U.S. cities, including smaller markets such as Memphis and Savannah, Ga. These will further expand a global route map that stretches from Algiers to Reykjavik andTaipei toTel Aviv. The airline is also scouting Africa for future destinations.

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So-called “sixth freedom” flying— the right of an airline to carry passengers or cargo between two foreign countries as long as it touches down in its home nation–is the cornerstone of Air Canada’s strategy. It’s helped the Montreal-based airline post record net incomeof $308 million Canadian in 2015, more than double the prior year.

Boosting Air Canada as an international connecting point is also crucial to broadening its long-haul service, such as the nonstop Toronto to Delhi flight launched in 2015 and a new nonstop to Mumbai that begins in July. (Meanwhile, among U.S. carriers, only United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE: UAL) flies to India.)

To fill planes bound for Sydney or Munich, Air Canada requires a healthy dose of traffic from elsewhere. “That connecting flow helps you support the launch of new services,” said Cameron Doerksen, a transportation analyst with National Bank of Canada Financial Inc. “You may not have thought it was viable to launch Toronto-Delhi unless you were getting some connecting traffic from the U.S.”

Air Canada isn’t alone in pursuing this type of international transfer strategy, given the range capabilities of modern aircraft and the enormous hubs that have emerged in the Persian Gulf. Low-cost Iceland leisure carrierWOW Air, though only five years old, has grand ambitions to boost its Reykjavik base as a North Atlantic hub, and Singapore Airlines Ltd. (SGX: C6L) has similar designs on making Changi Airport an easy one-stop connection for North Americans heading to Southeast Asia.

Yet for Air Canada, the tactic comes with some risk. The carrier is nowhere near the size of the American behemoths, most of which don’t take kindly to losing passengers to anyone. Long-haul flying typically commands higher fares and thus a more lucrative customer base, placing it among the more fiercely contested segments in air travel, said Helane Becker, an aviation analyst with Cowen & Co.

Carriers like Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) are notoriously sharp-elbowed when it comes to turf scuffles, and Emirates has the ability to throw on huge capacity as needed simply by moving the service to its superjumbo Airbus A380. In other words, Air Canada may be running a risk of getting squeezed.

“I don’t know when, but there will be a reaction by the U.S. carriers at some point when the supply of seats gets too high,” Becker said. “In the short term, the U.S. carriers are probably focusing on some other markets as a group— Los Angeles, Orlando, San Francisco— but once they stop focusing on that, you might start to see some competitive response to Air Canada. For now, it’s not on their radar screen. They have bigger fish to fry, such as the Middle East carriers.”

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</figcaption></figure>Smith, who on Feb. 9 helped unveil Air Canada’s striking new black-and-white aircraft livery during a ceremony in Toronto, isn’t too worried about U.S. rivals. Air Canada is targeting a 1.8-per-cent market share of the U.S.-international market, he said, which is roughly double its current amount. “And that means one or two business customers a day from Philadelphia, you know? One or two from Cleveland,” he said. “If someone’s going to add an extra flight to go fight for that, then they’re kind of irrational.”

Moreover, he argues, Air Canada’s flexing is only fair. Foreign carriers have been poaching its international traffic for a long time. Having acquired Canadian Airlines Ltd. in 1999— then the nation’s No. 2 carrier— Air Canada was hobbled by heavy debt and high costs. The airline sought protection from creditors four years later, and didn’t expand its 56 plane wide-body aircraft fleet for a dozen years. Air Canada acquired its first Boeing 777— a staple of most international long-haul fleets— just a decade ago.

During these lean times, Montreal tour company Transat A.T. Inc. (TSX: TRZ) emerged as its largest competitor on trans-Atlantic routes. Smelling blood, domestic upstarts and Emirates grew exponentially at Air Canada’s expense as well, and Asian airlines targeted Canada as part of their North American expansion.

“Talk about sitting there watching by the sidelines as prime routes into our prime markets have been taken away by premier carriers,” said Smith. “It drives you crazy.”

Air Canada has a “soft target” of about 50 per cent connecting traffic at its hubs, up from its current 41 per cent, Smith said. By comparison, Air France-KLM (EPA: AF) has about 70 percent at its Amsterdam Schiphol hub, while the Persian Gulf trio— Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways Ltd. — all top 90 per cent at their respective hubs.

Air Canada’s full-throated foray into long-haul flying has been fueled by a massive fleet renewal program, which includes 25 Boeing Co. 787s, and the migration of older Boeing 767s from its mainline fleet to its low-cost Rouge subsidiary. The carrier also has 12 additional 787s on order, 61 Boeing 737 Max planes that start to arrive later this year, and 45 Bombardier CS300s on tap for 2019 and beyond.

With a newer fleet and some on-board amenity upgrades, Air Canada is counting on its Toronto-Pearson hub to become a competitive factor in luring more global jet-setters. The airport has structured operations so passengers connecting at Pearson don’t need to claim and recheck their bags. Pearson also introduced a “baggage image and weight identification system” (BIWIS) in 2013, which takes a photo, weighs, and scans for radiation on each bag that arrives, which satisfies the post Sept. 11 restrictions imposed on U.S.-bound flights.

Also helpful for U.S bound customers is that entry via U.S. Customs and Border Protection occurs in Canada. “You’re not going to convince somebody from New York to fly through Toronto,” Doerksen said, given the typical nonstop options from the largest U.S. cities. “But if you live in Cincinnati, you have to connect somewhere and it makes sense to do it in Toronto.”

[h=3]Growth will eventually slow[/h]Even if Air Canada manages to avoid blowback from competitors, the pace of growth will ease in coming years. Its trans-Atlantic joint venture partners, United and Deutsche Lufthansa AG (ETR: LHA), will probably try to impose some curbs. On Tuesday, United Chief Financial Officer Andrew Levy alluded to this when he said seat supply over the Atlantic from its partners was “of most concern” given that higher capacity has dented profits.

More immediately, Air Canada is “up against the limits of what they can do with Rouge without going back to their pilots,” said Seth Kaplan, a managing partner of trade journal Airline Weekly , referring to further expansion of the low-cost unit, where wages are about 25 percent below the mainline operation. “So one way or another, further expansion would cost more, because either it would have to be mainline or they would have to trade their pilots something for it to be Rouge.”

Air Canada executives have already opened the door to expanding Rouge beyond the 50-aircraft limit they’ve negotiated with pilots, with Rovinescu telling analysts in November he would have opportunities to discuss the matter “over the coming years.”

Smith emphasizes that financial success, not attaining global stature, is driving the airline’s overall expansion. The growth ends, he said, when Air Canada sees no more profitable opportunities. “We don’t need to be the largest carrier in the world.”

by Justin Bachman and Frederic Tomesco

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Air Canada in recent schedule update filed additional changes for operational aircraft between Montreal and Europe, including flights to Frankfurt and Geneva. Planned changes as follow.

 

Montreal – Frankfurt eff 01MAY17 Boeing 787-8 operating from this date, instead of 01JUN17, replacing A330-300

AC874 YUL1920 – 0820+1FRA 788 D

AC875 FRA1015 – 1150YUL 788 D

 

Montreal – Geneva A330-300 once again scheduled to operate entire summer season. Previously AC planned 767 service from 20SEP17

AC834 YUL2020 – 0930+1GVA 333 D

AC835 GVA1240 – 1440YUL 333 D

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Air Canada during the month of April 2017 is adjusting operational aircraft for Montreal – Brussels route, currently served by Airbus A330-300 aircraft. From 01APR17 to 29APR17 (YUL departure), Boeing 787-8 will serve this route on daily basis, temporary replacing A330.

 

AC832 YUL1950 – 0835+1BRU 788 D

AC833 BRU1045 – 1200YUL 788 D

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