Not a fan of their baggage fee to USA... I guess lucky I am flying WestJet on my next trip down South. WestJet BTW has said they have no plans to introduce a fee. It 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 especially since they are taking advantage of the hysterical (and yet one more temporary measure that became permanent) over reaction of the US and Canadian government regarding liquids on a plane (something that is allowed in Asia!), leaving the majority of people with no choice but to check a bag.
I normally travel on AC between Shanghai and Vancouver in the summer but opted out this year due to insane ticket prices (almost a 30% increase from last year). I took Korean Air instead. Sure, I added four hours travel time to my flight, but I was greeted with amazing service at a decent price. I can't say the same about AC. Now with these extra baggage costs, it looks like I'll be flying with KA exclusively.
The Chinese are notorious penny-pinchers/deal-finders and also heavy packers, so you can bet that they'll look elsewhere when flying with two bags to Canada. Talk about isolating the biggest emerging market out there.
Well, now you can only fly one airline to USA without baggage fee, as all American airlines charge it. For International, Air Canada pretty much holds a monopoly on that, so... enjoy As for fares, I have found they are slightly lower, but there's an outrageously high fuel tax in the neighbourhood of $700 per direction! Very misleading advertising...
Air Canada to charge for checked bags on international flights Source
If this trend continues, I can foresee one day passengers will be charged using the washroom during flight.
For now it looks as though the fee for first checked bag is only for US bound flights. For international, first checked bag is still free, with fee for second increasing.
I would guess this is due to the joint venture for transborder - hard to be booking lots of AC customers through with a lower bag charge. Still, would be nice if they only made the charges apply for the lowest 'Tango' fare, like what they did with advance seat selection.
Well, now you can only fly one airline to USA without baggage fee, as all American airlines charge it. For International, Air Canada pretty much holds a monopoly on that, so... enjoy As for fares, I have found they are slightly lower, but there's an outrageously high fuel tax in the neighbourhood of $700 per direction! Very misleading advertising...
The outrageously high fuel surcharge is Japan specific, and is not only limited to AC. Virtually every other airline that has a fare filed YVR-NRT has a $670 fuel surcharge tacked on.
The fuel surcharge to other Asian destinations are less outrageous (HKG is $270, for example).
The outrageously high fuel surcharge is Japan specific, and is not only limited to AC. Virtually every other airline that has a fare filed YVR-NRT has a $670 fuel surcharge tacked on.
The fuel surcharge to other Asian destinations are less outrageous (HKG is $270, for example).
Does Japan charge exorbitant fees for fuel, or something? I'd love more information on this, if you know.
YVR is testing a new security screening procedure based on "Behavioural Pattern Recognition (BPR)".
So if you are stressed out at work before the trip, be careful how you behave at the airport. Source
Does Japan charge exorbitant fees for fuel, or something? I'd love more information on this, if you know.
Not necessarily, but the Japanese government allows Japan's carriers (JAL and ANA) to collect a fuel surcharge based on a the average price of jet fuel. As far as I know, the carriers apply to the government to increase/decrease the amount, based on a two-month average price.
There is a table to determine the surcharge, as detailed here:
Small change to the domestic/transborder winter lineup at AC.
YYZ is having a daily flight added. So, an additional 7 weekly flights on the YVR-YYZ trunk route. Also, there is a slight shift to a bit more widebody service than last winter as well.
In addition SFO is picking up one additional weekly flight to 20 vs 19. I will be on one of those in January even! Go Air NZ code share.
A couple of other very minor changes not worth mentioning.
So the overall update: now only 5 fewer weekly frequencies compared to last winter but a shift to more mainline flying noted ~67 per day vs ~65.
Thats very interesting. With the current grim state of the Japanese carriers, I don't foresee much route growth from them. The current 5th freedom route that Phillipine Air flies from YVR to LAS seems to be doing quite well though. Maybe YVR could be used as a mini-hub for North American flight since we're the only city JAL in Canada currently flies to?
If this new agreement means we'll possibly have new options for intra-canada or intra-north america travel with Japanese carriers, that's something very interesting to look forward to.
I think it would mean more unfettered air travel to Japan, and the cessation of negotiating, negotiating, negotiating.
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With due respect to all readers here, I also hope that it means that the YVR thread will no longer be mostly consecrated to flights to Japan, Japan, and Japan.
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Other news / destrinations would be nice.
I was under the impression that all Emirates really wanted was much-increased service to Toronto, and not at all to Vancouver or Calgary. Or am I mistaken?
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Fares have dropped over 50% to $1500 each way today. I don't understand why Air Canada always does this. 
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