Above all, the airline has returned to profit, with profits of 361 million Canadian dollars, compared with a loss of 316 million dollars in 2009. Air Canada's sound financial health is enabling it to step up its international routes from its main hub, Toronto. The carrier plans to increase its network capacity from 5.5 % to 6.5 %, with less growth on domestic routes (+1.5 %). In summer 2011, 450,000 more seats will be on sale to and from Toronto than in summer 2009. This expansion will result in more flights on intercontinental, transborder (Canada\/US) and domestic routes. Air Canada is increasing the number of frequencies to Copenhagen, Dublin and Madrid, which are now served by a daily flight.<\/p>\n
The Santiago de Chile\/Buenos Aires route is also becoming daily. The airline is also increasing capacity to Barcelona (six weekly flights instead of three) and Athens (four weekly flights instead of three). These improvements will take effect between the beginning of May and the end of June. On transborder routes, this winter Air Canada inaugurated the only non-stop service between Toronto and New Orleans. The airline is set to increase traffic between the United States and Toronto, following the forthcoming creation of a joint venture with United Airlines. This commercial alliance will enable flights to be operated jointly. Finally, on domestic routes, Air Canada will be starting a daily seasonal service to Gander, Newfoundland, in June.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Air Canada had a very good year in 2010. The Canadian national carrier recorded 51.87 million passenger miles - more than 31 million annual passenger kilometres - an increase of more than 8 %.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"type-darticle":[],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-17855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerien","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n