Air Canada, the national airline of Canada, is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Air Canada provides scheduled and chartered passenger and cargo services, and provides maintenance, ground handling and training services for other airlines.
Air Canada is a member of Star Alliance and one of the five founding airlines of the Alliance. Air Canada takes Toronto Pearson International Airport, Montreal Trudeau International Airport and Vancouver International Airport as its hub airports.
Brief introduction of Air Canada:
The predecessor of Air Canada, Trans World (TCA), was established on April 1937, and made its first flight on September 10 of the same year. It flew from Vancouver to Seattle by Lockheed 10A, carrying two passengers and mail, and later developed into the national airline of Canada.
1964, Chretien, who had not yet become prime minister at that time, asked in Congress to change the name of the airline to Air Canada, and officially changed its name to Air Canada on 1 965+1October1.
At the end of 1970, Air Canada became an independent royal company. 1989, Air Canada completed privatization. Air Canada has always focused on domestic routes, European routes and American routes, so it didn't have an official Chinese name until 1994 when Air Canada opened the Vancouver-Hong Kong route.
But at that time, a "Air Canada" was registered by the competitor Air Canada, which opened the Hong Kong-Tokyo-Vancouver route as early as 1950, so Air Canada named the Chinese name "Maple Leaf Airlines".
1May, 997, became a founding member of Star Alliance. 1September 2, 998, Air Canada pilots launched their first strike.
June 5438 +2000 10, Air Canada acquired the bankrupt second largest airline Air Canada, and announced the merger, becoming the world's 12 largest airline. By the way, the Chinese translation of Air Canada was merged and the Chinese name of Air Canada was changed to Air Canada.