Air Canada Newfoundland to London service goes all year round

If you look around Heathrow, there are all sorts of large and small aircraft around. You’d expect smaller Airbus A320 and A319s from European carriers, but during summer months, a small Airbus A319 in Air Canada colours comes to visit – operating a service between St Johns Newfoundland to London Heathrow.

Air Canada Airbus A319 at London Heathrow Airport – Image GhettoIFE.

The 5 hour 35 minute flight crosses the Atlantic – and the A319 has the legs for the route as can be seen. The route currently is operated a seasonal service, but will be turning into a year round service from 26th October 2014.

The route will operate as follows:

AC823 DEPART LHR 11:05 ARRIVE YYT 13:05
AC822 DEPART YYT 00:40 ARRIVE LHR 09:15

Commences 26th October as a year round service 
Operates Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Booked Equipment: Airbus A319

Air Canada will operate this route using their Airbus A319 aircraft (as used on Canadian Domestic and US services), configured with

• 14 Business Class Recliner Seat with 38″-39″ of seat pitch
• 106 Economy Class seat with 31″-32″ of seat pitch

Business class seat have power at seat, whilst Economy class will have 2 socket between 3 seats.

The year round link was last operated in 2006, when the route was reduced to seasonal operation.

For those heading to/from St Johns, there is a significant time saving, with a direct flight taking 5 hours 35, whilst a flight via Toronto or Montreal will be at least 12 hours and more.