Articles tagged “air canada”

Branded fares, such as WestJet's new Plus option, have really caught on among airlines globally, giving leisure and business travelers more choice in the services they want to pay for.

Air Canada holds the spot for top business airline in the country, but it’s new budget option is the legacy carrier’s attempt to compete with more budget airlines like WestJet.

Air Canada just began similar routes leading to a competitive market that will lower fares and increase connectivity for small communities that have relied on trains for reasonably priced travel in the past.

Would have been a nice option to fly into Asia, but Air Canada already has its hands full with its own management troubles and its other low-cost plan to launch a European discount operator.

In-flight magazines, an under-appreciated genre in the media world, can show off a little with these two gems.

Air Canada is working to cut costs through the creation of a low-cost carrier, but its creation has seemed to have an indirect effect -- positive effects for the legacy carrier.

While it started as a government-mandated cost-cutting move for Air Canada, it seems to be the way to put some new life into the company, after a miserable year.

Current low-revenue routes flown by Air Canada will be given to the unnamed airline which is set to start flying in 2013 under separate leadership.

Air Canada's slowly trying to climb out of its morass after long labor negotiations and stagnant fleet.