One of my favourite carriers down the back of the plane – Air Canada – has announced that it is to be boosting its frequencies between Toronto Person International and London Heathrow, starting 2nd June 2012.
This will take the service to five-times daily between London and Toronto for the summer season.
Air Canada will be running the following (based on data from ExpertFlyer)
London Heathrow to Toronto Pearson from 02/06/2012
AC869 DEPART LHR 08:30 ARRIVE YYZ 11:35 763 AC863 DEPART LHR 11:05 ARRIVE YYZ 14:10 763 AC857 DEPART LHR 12:05 ARRIVE YYZ 14:45 77W AC849 DEPART LHR 15:00 ARRIVE YYZ 17:55 333 AC859 DEPART LHR 18:00 ARRIVE YYZ 21:05 763
Notes:
763 – Boeing 767-300ER
77W – Boeing 777-300ER
333 – Airbus A330-300
Toronto Pearson to London Heathrow from 02/06/2012
AC868 DEPART YYZ 08:55 ARRIVE LHR 21:00 763 AC856 DEPART YYZ 18:20 ARRIVE LHR 06:25+1 333 AC848 DEPART YYZ 20:40 ARRIVE LHR 08:35+1 77W AC862 DEPART YYZ 21:55 ARRIVE LHR 10:00+1 763 AC858 DEPART YYZ 23:20 ARRIVE LHR 11:25+1 763
Notes:
763 – Boeing 767-300ER
77W – Boeing 777-300ER
333 – Airbus A330-300
Currently, Air Canada operates four services a day from Toronto to London. Depatures from LHR are at 0900, 1200, 1500 and 1800 respectively.
This throws at least another 250 seats a day between London and Toronto – an expansion indeed.
Great, now Aeroplan has even more opportunity to fleece us on the fuel surcharges. You generally want to avoid LHR at all costs (pun intended) due to the incredibly high cost of flying into and out of it, even more when flying on AC metal.