Air Canada rouge
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| Founded | December 2012 | ||||||
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| Frequent-flyer program | Aeroplan | ||||||
| Alliance | Star Alliance (affiliate) | ||||||
| Fleet size | 47 | ||||||
| Destinations | 49 | ||||||
| Parent company | Air Canada Leisure Group | ||||||
| Website | flyrouge |
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Air Canada Rouge, stylized Air Canada rouge, is a vacation airline with a global network of 120 routes on five continents and over 1600 employees by the end of 2016. The carrier is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Canada and is fully integrated into the Air Canada mainline and Air Canada Express networks. Flights are sold with AC flight numbers, but are listed as "operated by Air Canada Rouge" (similar to regional flights operated under the Air Canada Express banner). Rouge means "red" in French.
The airline was launched in December 2012 and began services on July 1, 2013. It is part of the Air Canada Leisure Group. At the time of the launch it had a fleet of four aircraft, 2 Airbus A319s and 2 Boeing 767s, transferred from the parent company. Its fleet expanded to 28 aircraft within 18 months and was expected to reach 16 Boeing 767s, 20 Airbus A319s and 5 Airbus A321s by mid-2016. By early September 2016, the airline had expanded its Boeing 767 fleet to 19 aircraft.
On March 24, 2014, Air Canada announced plans for Air Canada Rouge to expand into Western Canada beginning in spring 2014, to serve predominantly leisure markets from Vancouver and Calgary to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Honolulu, Maui and Anchorage.
A seasonal service from Vancouver to Osaka/Kansai started in May 2015.
Air Canada Rouge serves predominantly leisure destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Mexico and the United States. Destinations in Europe include London Gatwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Venice, Athens, Lisbon, Dublin, Nice, Barcelona, Rome, Budapest, Warsaw, Casablanca and Manchester, with Berlin to be added in mid-2017. Destinations in the Caribbean include Cuba, Jamaica, Curaçao, Haiti, the Bahamas, Grenada, Barbados, St. Maarten, and the Dominican Republic. Destinations in Africa include Algiers and Casablanca. As of the Summer 2015 Air Canada rouge plans to expand within Canada, servicing summer flight between Calgary - Halifax, Toronto - Kelowna, Toronto - Abbotsford and service between Toronto - Sydney, NS.
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