Air Canada Airlines (AC) is Canada’s flag carrier and its largest airline in terms of fleet size and passengers flown. Montreal-based Air Canada’s main hubs are in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto–Pearson, and Toronto–Pearson.
Air Canada has a 166-plus aircraft on its fleet (excluding subsidiaries). Air Canada reservations can take you to 220+ destinations across 6 continents in any of these 4 cabin configurations—Signature, Business, Premium Economy, and Economy.
In 2020, Air Canada received the Best Airline in North America award for the second consecutive (Global Traveler). Other awards include Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness and Best Premium Economy Class, among others.
Air Canada’s operating divisions comprise Air Canada Express, Air Canada Jetz (private charters), Air Canada Rouge (leisure airline), and Air Canada Vacations—a subsidiary that provides vacation packages 90+ destinations.
Air Canada Reservation Options
- AirCanada.com
- Phone
- Mobile app
- Air Canada ticket office
- Third parties
Air Canada Online Reservations
Make your booking through Air Canada’s official website
You can book your Air Canada ticket online from the airline’s website. The entire booking process is explained step-by-step below.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Online Reservations
You will receive your e-ticket completing the steps below:
- Go to AirCanada.com
- Provide your trip details in the boxes
- Hit Find
- Select your flight and fare from the options provided
- Configure and finalize your trip, and pay
Air Canada Offline Booking
If you’re not comfortable booking online, call Air Canada Reservations on to book your ticket securely by phone. You will receive top-notch service at this toll-free number, which is open 24/7.
Air Canada Mobile App Booking
Regardless of where you’re based, you can book Air Canada flights using your smartphone. Simply download the app by clicking on one of the links below, open your account, and get started.
How to Check Your Flight Status on Air Canada
To check your Air Canada flight status online:
- Go to AirCanada.com
- Click on the Flight Status tab
- Select one of the options:
- By flight number (opens by default), or
- By Route
- Provide the required information and click on the Find button
Your Air Canada flight status will show up on your screen.
The mobile app can also be used to check your flight’s status.
Air Canada Senior Discounts
Air Canada does not offer senior discounts on its website. But you can call Air Canada Reservations and ask for a special discount at this number: .
Air Canada Group Reservations
You can make group reservations online or by phone.
Online group reservations can be made from the Group Travel page. To qualify for group travel via the website, at least 10 passengers are required. Plus, they must be travelling on the same flight to the same destination on the same date and the same reservation.
The other option is to call Air Canada at . You can get a discount for any number of passengers at this number, even if your group has less than 10 passengers. For more information, call and ask.
Air Canada Manage Booking
Manage all your flight bookings quickly and easily
Air Canada’s Manage booking functionality is a handy online tool through which you can quickly manage all your flight bookings. You can use this tool to:
- View and/or print your itinerary
- Add your booking to your personal online calendar
- Check in for your flight
- Cancel your booking
- Upgrade your seat
- Upgrade your travel class
- Purchase baggage
- Book a hotel
- Rent a car
- Add your passport details
- Add passenger information in advance
To manage your Air Canada booking or reservations:
- Visit the homepage, AirCanada.com
- Access your flight booking by selecting the My bookings tab
- On the next screen, provide your Booking Reference/Ticket Number and Last Name and click on the Find button
- Your flight booking will show up
- Choose the flight you’d like to manage
- Now proceed to:
- View and/or print your itinerary
- Add your booking to your personal online calendar
- Check in
- Cancel a flight
- Upgrade your seat
- Upgrade your travel class
- Purchase baggage
- Book hotel accommodation or a car
- Add your passport details
- Add passenger information in advance
You can also manage your flight booking with your mobile app.
Air Canada Contact—Customer Service
You can contact Air Canada’s customer support team by phone or email.
Air Canada Cabin Classes
Air Canada offers 4 types of cabin configurations (travel classes):
- Signature Class
- Business Class
- Premium Economy Class
- Economy Class
Air Canada Signature Class
Air Canada’s Signature Class is the equivalent of a First Class cabin and is available on European, Asian, Pacific, and South American routes.
Major features include:
- BMW chauffeur services
(temporarily suspended) - Maple Leaf lounge access
- Special check-in counters
- Fast security clearance
- Special boarding lanes
- Concierge services
- Touchscreen TV with 100s of hours of entertainment
(movies, TV, music) - Extra baggage allowance
- Executive or Classic Pods
- Lumbar support
- Massage function
- Fully flat-bed (up to 203.2 cm/67in in length
- Customer Care Kit with antibacterial wipes, mask, hand sanitizer, water bottle, headset, and snack
- Special food and beverage service
Air Canada Business Class
Air Canada’s Business Class seats are available on international flights and select North American routes.
Major features include:
- BMW chauffeur services
(temporarily suspended) - Maple Leaf lounge access
- Priority check-in
- Priority security clearance
- Priority baggage handling
- Extra baggage allowance
- Dedicated zone 1 boarding
- Concierge services
- Touchscreen TV with 100s of hours of entertainment
(movies, TV, music) - Larger seats with window or aisle access
- More legroom
- More recline
- Adjustable head and footrests
- Revamped Customer Care Kit with a mask, hand sanitizer, water bottle, earbud headset, and snack
- Gourmet meals
Air Canada Premium Economy Class
Air Canada’s Premium Economy Class seats offer larger seats, more legroom space and recline than Economy Class seats.
Major features include:
- Priority boarding, check-in and baggage handling
- Personal touch-screen TV
- Top-rated on-demand in-flight entertainment
- In-seat power
- USB charging port
- Ambient mood lighting
- Adjustable headrest, pillow, blanket and amenity kit
- More baggage allowance compared to Standard Economy Class
- Larger and more comfortable seats than Economy Class seats
- More recline (17.8cm/7in)
- Boeing 777-300: 50.8cm/20in between armrests
- Boeing 787-788 49.53cm/19.5in between armrests
- Airbus A330-300 45.7cm/18in between armrests
- More seat pitch for stretching out 96.5cm/38in
- Personal touchscreen TV
- Boeing 787-788 28cm/11in screen
- Boeing 777-300 26.4cm/10.4in screen
- Airbus A330-333 22.6cm/8.9in screen
- More recline (17.8cm/7in)
- Complimentary meals (select flights)
Air Canada International Economy Class
The major features of Air Canada’s International Economy Class include:
- Complimentary beverages
- A pre-packaged meal curated by Air Canada’s Chef Jérôme Ferrer
- Hours of on-demand entertainment at your fingertips
- Personal touchscreen TV
- 9in on Boeing 787-788 aircraft
- 100s of hours of entertainment
- In-seat power
- Single -pin audio jack for your headset or free headphones
- USB charging port
- Adjustable and foldable headrest for added sleep comfort
- Sanitized pillow and blanket
- Ambient mood lighting
- Complimentary meals (select flights)
Air Canada Seat Choices
Air Canada offers the following types of seat choices:
- Signature Class
- Business Class
- Premium Economy Class
- Economy Class
- Regular seats
- Preferred Seats
- Include exit rows, select bulkhead row seats, and seats in the first few rows
- Provide up to 10cm/4in more space between seats
- Bulkhead row seats offer more knee regular seats
- Faster disembarkation
- Cost USD 19–299
Air Canada Advance Seat Reservation
Making an advance seat reservation allows you to select your seat and sit with your friends and family.
The following passengers can request a seat in advance for free:
- Passengers holding the following types of fares
- Flex
- Comfort
- Latitude
- Premium Economy
- Premium Rouge
- Business Class
- Signature Class
Passengers holding the following types of fares can make advance seat reservations for a fee:
- Basic Economy USD 100 (all routes)
- Standard Economy USD 50 (all routes)
How to make an advance seat reservation
You can reserve your seat when you’re booking your flight or later. The earlier you reserve your seat, the more choice you have.
You can make an advance seat reservation on Air Canada:
- When making your flight reservation
- Online via the website
- By phone
- Through a ticket office
- After booking your flight
- Online via My bookings
- By phone
- Through a ticket office
- When you check in (starting 24 hours before departure)
- Online or through your mobile device
- Physically at the airport
Remember
- The advance seat reservation fee may be lower at the time of actual seat selection.
- Advance seat reservations are free when online check-in opens 24 hours before departure.
- The seat reservation/selection fee is non-refundable unless:
- You have a confirmed upgrade.
- You change your flight itinerary/flight/fare.
- Exit row seats can only be occupied by:
- Passengers who are at least 18 years old and read and understand instructions in English or French are capable of opening the exit door and free of any disability.
- Passengers who are at least 12 years old and accompanied by someone on the same booking who is at least 18 years old and meets the above-mentioned conditions.
Air Canada Fare Options and Features
| Air Canada Fare Options—To the U.S. | |||||||
| Fare feature | Basic | Standard | Flex | Comfort | Latitude | Premium Economy | Business |
| Refundability (for tickets purchased on/after April 13, 2021, the Go-Forward Period. | No refund No travel credit | Travel credit | Travel credit | Refundable | Refundable | Flexible—Refundable Lowest—Travel credit | Flexible—Refundable Lowest—Travel credit |
| Anytime Change (up to 2 hours before departure) | Once for free | Once for free | Fare difference applies | Fare difference applies | Flexible—Fare difference applies Lowest—Once for free | Flexible—Fare difference applies Lowest—Once for free | |
| Same-day Airport Change (subject to availability) | Not permitted | USD/CAD 150 USD/CAD 100* | USD/CAD 75 | Permitted | Permitted | Flexible—Permitted Lowest—USD 75 | Permitted |
| Same-day Airport Standby | Not permitted | Free* on select routes | Free* on select routes | Permitted | Permitted | Flexible—Permitted Lowest—Free* on select routes | Flexible—Permitted Lowest—Free* on select routes |
| * On flights between Toronto Pearson and LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark | |||||||
| Air Canada Fare Options—International Destinations | |||||||
| Fare feature | Basic | Standard | Flex | Comfort | Premium Economy | Business | |
| Refundability (for tickets purchased on/after April 13, 2021, the Go-Forward Period. | No refund No travel credit | Travel credit | Travel credit | Refundable | Flexible—Refundable Lowest—Fee applies | Flexible—Refundable Lowest—Fee applies | |
| Anytime Change (up to 2 hours before departure) | Once for free | Once for free | Once for free | Fare difference applies | Flexible—Fare difference applies Lowest—Once for free | Flexible—Fare difference applies* Lowest—Once for free | |
| Same-day Airport Change (subject to availability) | Not permitted | USD/CAD 100 | USD/CAD 100 | Included | Flexible— Included Lowest—USD/CAD 100 | Flexible— Included Lowest—Fee may apply | |
| Same-day Airport Standby | Not permitted | Not permitted | Not permitted | Included | Flexible—Permitted Lowest—Not permitted | Flexible— Permitted Lowest— Permitted | |
| * Contact Air Canada Reservations for details. | |||||||
| Air Canada Fare Options—To the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America | |||||||
| Fare feature | Basic | Standard | Flex | Comfort | Business | ||
| Refundability (for tickets purchased on/after April 13, 2021, the Go-Forward Period. | No refund No travel credit | Travel credit | Travel credit | Refundable | Flexible—Refundable Lowest—Travel credit | ||
| Anytime Change (up to 2 hours before departure) | Once for free | Once for free | Once for free | Fare difference applies | Flexible—Fare difference applies* Lowest—Once for free | ||
| Same-day Airport Change (subject to availability) | Not permitted | USD/CAD 50 USD/CAD 100* | USD/CAD 50 | Included | Flexible—Included Lowest—A fee may apply | ||
| Same-day Airport Standby | Not permitted | Not permitted | Not permitted | Included | Flexible— Included Lowest— Included | ||
| * Contact Air Canada Reservations for details. | |||||||
| Air Canada Fare Options—Within Canada | |||||||
| Fare feature | Basic | Standard | Flex | Comfort | Latitude | Premium Economy | Business |
| Refundability (for tickets purchased on/after April 13, 2021, the Go-Forward Period | No refund No travel credit | Travel credit | Travel credit | Refundable | Refundable | Flexible—Refundable Lowest—Travel credit | Flexible—Refundable Lowest—Travel credit |
| Anytime Change (up to 2 hours before departure) | Once for free | Once for free | Once for free | Fare difference applies | Fare difference applies | Flexible—Fare difference applies Lowest—Once for free | Flexible—Fare difference applies Lowest—Once for free |
| Same-day Airport Change (subject to availability) | Not permitted | USD/CAD 150 USD/CAD 100* | USD/CAD 75 | Included | Included | Flexible— Included Lowest—USD 75 | Included |
| Same-day Airport Standby | Not permitted | Free* on select routes | Free* on select routes | Included | Included | Flexible— Included Lowest—Free* on select routes | Flexible— Included Lowest—Free* on select routes |
| * On flights between Toronto and Montreal/Ottawa and flights between Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. | |||||||
Air Canada In-flight Entertainment Services
A view of Air Canada’s in-flight entertainment services
Air Canada’s in-flight entertainment system offers the hours of entertainment in the Americas and includes movies, TV shows, documentaries, games, music, and podcasts.
- Wi-fi access (select flights)
- Choose from 340+ movies from top movie franchises
- 500+ TV programs
- 100+ music albums
- Playlists
- Audiobooks
- Podcasts
- Live flight path tracker
- In-seat power
Aeroplan—Air Canada’s Frequent Flyer Program
Air Canada’s loyalty program is known as Aeroplan. It runs in partnership with 27 Star Alliance members. Once you join Aeroplan, you can start earning miles on everyday purchases—through 150+ partner brands at 170+ online retailers via Aeroplan’s eStore.
The benefits of joining Aeroplan are:
- You can earn miles with everyday purchases
- You can earn miles when you fly on Air Canada or its partner airlines
- You can redeem your Aeroplan air-miles and fly more often
- You can earn special privileges—such as for:
- Check-in
- Reservations
- Baggage allowance
- Lounge access
Air Canada Travel Destinations
Air Canada flies to 220+ destinations across 6 continents.
The airline flies directly to:
- 62 airports in Canada
- 54 airports in the United States
- 100 airports in
- Europe
- The Middle East
- Africa
- Asia
- Australia
- The Caribbean
- Mexico
- Central America
- South America
Popular Destinations
Some of the destinations you can fly on the cheap on an Air Canada booking include:
- New York
- Fort Lauderdale
- Los Angeles
- Las Vegas
- San Francisco
- Toronto
- London
- Shanghai
- Casablanca
- Melbourne
- Santiago
FAQs on Air Canada Reservations
The Air Canada reservations phone number (toll-free) in the United States and Canada is .
Air Canada advance seat reservations can be made at the time of booking or after. The earlier you make a reservation, the more choice you have.
Air Canada Aeroplan reservations can be made free of charge online via AirCanada.com or for a non-refundable fee of CAD 30 through the Aeroplan Contact Center. However, if your flight reward reservation includes a flight operated by another airline under the Air Canada Express or Rouge brand, you will be charged a partner booking fee of CAD 39 per ticket.
Air Canada uses the Amadeus Altea Suite Passenger Service System. This system has been developed by a Spanish software company known as Amadeus.
You can make Air Canada group reservations by phone or online through the Group Travel page. If you’re making the reservation online via Air Canada’s website, you must have at least 10 passengers on the same reservation. If you’re travelling in a smaller group, you can make a group reservation by phone at .
Air Canada’s Manage booking is an online functionality that you can use to manage your flight bookings under a single dashboard. It can save you a ton of time because it allows you to perform many useful functions online without having to call the airline or stand in a line. You can use this feature to view or print your travel itinerary, check in, cancel your bookings, upgrade your seat or travel class, purchase baggage in advance, and book a car or a hotel. The Manage booking feature allows you to add your passport details and passenger information in advance, thus saving you the hassle of entering the same information again in the future.
You can use the Manage booking tool online through Air Canada’s website. To use this tool, click on the My bookings tab on the homepage. Enter your flight details and name to access your flight booking. After selecting your flight, just follow the on-screen prompts to check in for your flight, cancel or upgrade your seat or travel class, purchase your baggage, book a car or a hotel, etc.
You can also use the mobile app to manage your flight booking.
Air Canada’s booking reference number is a unique alphanumeric code (typically 6 digits) used to identify your flight booking. You will be asked to provide this number (online or by phone) if you want to check in for your flight or make changes to your booking.
You can check your Air Canada flight booking status online or through the mobile app. To check your flight status online, go to Air Canada’s homepage (AirCanada.com), select Flight Status, and check your flight status By flight number (which opens by default) or By Route. Simply enter the required details and click on the Find button. Your real-time flight status will appear.
You can expect to pay the following charges on an international itinerary:
● Sales taxes (Canadian and provincial)
● Overseas taxes, fees, charges
● Airport improvement fee
● Federal security charge for air travelers
● Fuel, navigational and other surcharge
Absolutely! You will be able to see the total price you’ll have to pay, along with the full breakdown of taxes, fees, charges, and surcharges for your itinerary:
● Before buying your ticket, on the ‘Review Booking’ page (click on the ‘See Details’ link)
● After buying your ticket, on your itinerary-receipt
Your travel advisor will also be able to explain the taxes, fees, charges, and surcharges to you.
Air Canada’s airline code is 014, and its carrier code is AC.
Air Canada is one of the world’s top airlines and Canada’s flag carrier. It was named the best airline in North America for the third consecutive year in 2019 at the Skytrax World Airline Awards ceremony—and the eighth time in the last ten years. The award is based on satisfaction surveys of more than 21 million global travelers.
Air Canada has also been recognized for:
The world’s Best Business Class Lounge Dining
● Best Airline Staff in Canada
● Best Business Class in North America
● Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness in North America
Air Canada’s recent consumer rankings and ratings are as follows:
● Ranking—Skytrax 4-Star Airline
● Customer Rating—Skytrax 4/10 (1,569 reviews)
● Airline Review Rating—Tripadvisor 3/5 (26,594 reviews)
Customer Rating— Kayak 7.1/10 (average from 24,788 reviews)
If you want to talk to a live person at Air Canada, dial this number: .
The Air Canada Stopover option (currently suspended due to COVID-19) is available for all itineraries where the connection time between successive flights exceeds 6 hours. You can use Air Canada Stopover (starts USD 49 plus taxes) to stay in a hotel in a Canadian city (Toronto, Montréal, or Vancouver) at no additional fees.
To opt for the Stopover, you must book at least 96 hours before your flight’s scheduled departure time.
If you’re booking online, select Air Canada Stopover (from the travel options) after choosing your flight. If you’ve already booked your flight, you can book online (if eligible) through the Manage booking page after retrieving your flight and selecting the option. You can also call your travel agent to book it for you.
A stopover refers to the connection time between two flights. Depending on the airport, a stopover can range from 30 minutes to just under 24 hours on international flights.