From 12 November Air Canada is to offer daily non-stop flights between Vancouver and Shanghai. It will operate the route with Boeing 767-300s. With this service, Air Canada will offer 10 daily trans-Pacific flights from Vancouver to nine Pacific destinations, including a twice-daily service to Hong Kong and up to three flights per day to Japan.
Source: Airline Business
Major US carrier Delta Air Lines continues experiencing major network disruptions related to the global technology outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations on the “busiest travel weekend of the summer”.
US airlines are working to get their operations back into gear after a global computer outage forced some carriers to halt all departures overnight.
Virgin Atlantic will drop its Shanghai service this winter after 25 years as it further cuts its Asia-Pacific network amid the longer flying times necessitated by not being able to overfly Russia.
