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Flew Air Canada for the first time from San Francisco to Vancouver. Would have liked to have flown from San Jose to Vancouver, but there were no direct flights on Thursdays. $10-$50 charge for advance seating selection. Being cheap skates, we waited until 24 hours before the flight to choose our seats.
Air Canada about 10% more expensive than Alaska Airlines over the same routes, but Alaska Airlines has mandatory stops in Seattle when flying to/from Vancouver or Calgary to/from West coast cities of the US.
Air Canada in Toronto has passengers to put their carry on luggage into a luggage cage, at the boarding gate, with dimensions 21.5" x 15.5" x 9". Those too large have to be checked in, with a $25 fee per bag. One airline in North America has the guts to enforce the maximum carry on luggage!
Flew a 767-300 to Vancouver. Lots of storage space in the overhead compartments. 3 seats in each row on each side of the single aisle.
Seats reclined just slightly. I could use my 14" laptop on my tray the entire trip, without headroom intrusion from the reclined seat in front of me. 2 chargers for every 3 seats. Bring your own ear phones for the in flight entertainment system, or pay $3 by credit card for the airline ear phone.
One free nonalcoholic drink, and mini bag of pretzels. No hot meals. Sandwiches and chicken or vegetarian wraps for $7 purchase. Credit card only purchase. No cash accepted.
9 days later, flew on an Air Canada Bombardier CRJ705 twin jet engine aircraft from Calgary to San Francisco.
Two seats per row on each side of the single aisle. 18 rows, or 72 seats, all seats taken. No dreaded middle seats!
I was lugging my 20" x 14" x 9.5" soft luggage. Heaved it up to the overhead luggage compartment, and WTF, it was too wide to fit in the narrow 9" opening, much to the chagrin of the long line of people in the aisle behind me!
Dumped enough of the contents into a plastic bag. My soft luggage shrunk down to 20" x 14" x 8.5" and just did cram the luggage into the overhead compartment. Other people had the same problem, some with oversized luggage were SOL. Plane was late in taking off due to luggage stuffing failures!
Lots of leg room in the Bombardier CRJ705. 34" pitch between seats in adjacent rows, better than any other airplane I have flown on. The seats didn't recline, so didn't have any headrest banging into my face when leaning down, as happened on Hawaiian Air Lines!
Bombardier CRJ705 is a twin jet engine aircraft, with engines right on the fuselage in the rear. Those in the rear like us listened to deafening jet engine noise, so loud we couldn't even hear crying babies!
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