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- Air Canada will wet lease Omni Air International’s Boeing 767-300ER aircraft from June 15 to July 13.
- It flies daily between Toronto and San Francisco.
- Canada’s flag carrier used Omni Air equipment in 2019, 2020 and 2023.
Your eyes are not deceiving you. Air Canada removed all of its Boeing 767 passenger fleet in 2020, leaving only a sub-fleet of cargo planes. And Rouge, the flag carrier’s low-cost division, has also withdrawn its passenger 767 aircraft, with its final flights set to take off in June 2020. But this is true: Air Canada is set to fly to the US for the first time since 2020 using the aging passenger type, thanks to wet-lease aircraft from US carrier Omni Air International.
As is often the case when airlines replace their aircraft, Air Canada will likely receive negative feedback from consumers, especially if they paid a lot of money.
Omni Air: Toronto-San Francisco
According to Air Canada’s weekend schedule update, Kirium, plans to wet-lease a 246-seat OmniAir 767-300ER for cross-border routes. The plane has 22 business seats (2-2-2 layout) and 224 economy seats (preferable 2-3-2 layout).
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Wet leases are expensive, short-term, and provide the aircraft, maintenance, crew, and insurance. Available for reservation now, Air Canada will use only OmniAir’s 767s between Toronto and San Francisco this summer. Daily services run during the following times: June 15th and July 13th In both directions. It always works locally like this:
- Toronto-San Francisco: AC2413, 08:10-10:30 (5 hours 20 minutes block)
- San Francisco-Toronto: AC2412, 11:55-19:30 (4 hours 35 minutes)
Air Canada did not have flight numbers AC2413/AC2412 scheduled until the weekend of April 13/14. Returning to Canada at 7:30 p.m., passengers will be able to connect to Europe and beyond.
Five foreign airlines offer passenger flights to the United States with Boeing 767s
To give you an idea of how things are going to change, there are now six people.
Air Canada leases OmniAir aircraft
Air Canada is no stranger to using OmniAir’s 767s in spades. If you look at Cirium’s schedule, you’ll see that it ran between Toronto and Manchester last summer, and the following video is worth a look.
In 2019 and 2020, it operated from Vancouver to Honolulu, Kahului and Phoenix, including the very rare -200ER version.
Air Canada: Toronto-San Francisco
staring at June 15th and July 13th Canada’s flag carrier marks one of three airlines in the airport pair, joining fellow Star Alliance member United and fairly new entrant Porter.
Focusing on Air Canada’s service shows 5 flights per day. The Toronto-San Francisco route is his fourth busiest international flight from Canada’s busiest airport this time of year. It ranks behind New York’s LaGuardia, Newark and Boston, and tied with Los Angeles.
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The 1,963 nautical mile (3,636 km) route is scheduled as follows, and all times are local time: Specific departure and arrival times vary slightly, so only the most common times are listed.
- To San Francisco: 08:10-1030 (767-300ER), 12:55-1531 (A220-300), 17:15-1951 (A220-300, A320, MAX 8) stay overnight), 18:25-21:01 (A320 and A220-300, Return to Toronto overnight), 20:45-23:21 (MAX 8 and A220; stay overnight)
- from san francisco: 06:30-14:21 (MAX 8 and A220), 08:30-16:21 (A220, A320 and MAX 8), 11:55-19:30 (767-300ER), 16:35-00: 26+1 (A220), 22:05-05:56+1 (A320 and A220)
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