World Best Airlines

Air Canada has an extensive global network, with hubs in four major Canadian cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary), providing scheduled passenger service directly to 58 Canadian cities, 55 destinations in the United States and 52 cities in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. Air Canada and its regional affiliate Jazz operate approximately 1,380 scheduled flights each day on average. Through its strategic and commercial arrangements with Star Alliance™ partner airlines (www.staralliance.com), Air Canada offers service to 912 destinations in 159 countries and provides reciprocal top tier frequent flyer benefits.A number of new non-stop services were launched in 2008 including four new non-stop routes out of Toronto, to Richmond, Virginia, Austin, Texas, Grand Rapids, Michigan and Dayton, Ohio, and five routes out of Ottawa, to Frankfurt (Germany), Washington (Reagan National), Saskatoon, Thunder Bay and Charlottetown. In 2009, Air Canada will launch various new routes: Montreal-Martinique, Fort McMurray–Vancouver and Montreal–Geneva on a year-round non-stop basis, as well as Halifax-Orlando on a seasonal non-stop basis. Toronto-Madrid, Toronto-Rome and Montreal-Rome will resume in 2009