"by far the worst airline I’ve ever dealt with"
C Roberts (United States)
✅ Trip Verified | This is by far the worst airline I’ve ever dealt with aside from Spirit. Their service at the airport moves at a glacial pace, they do absolutely nothing over the phone. And they don’t provide refunds on flights they’ve canceled! This company is an absolute joke. I’ve spoken to dozens of reps over the past ten months trying to get a refund and they simply don’t care. Please never fly with this horrendous airline.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Shanghai to Fort Lauderdale via Montreal |
Date Flown | January 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"Shame on you all"
Patricia Laver (Australia)
✅ Trip Verified | A warning to those thinking of purchasing a ticket with Air Canada. They are in the practice of refusing to refund the purchase price even after they choose to cancel the flight. In these Covid days flights are frequently cancelled through lack of passenger capacity. Air Canada would have been aware of this before they posted the flight. They claim that this practice is consistent with other airlines policies. This is totally untrue. They also claim that the cancellation is due to uncontrollable circumstances. This is also totally untrue. Air Canada chose to cancel the flight. In any civilised country an action like this would be considered fraud but apparently not in Canada. Shame on you all.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Premium Economy |
Route | Sacramento to Brisbane |
Date Flown | October 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"Most unbelievable customer service"
Brendan Connolly (United States)
Not Verified | We booked a flight through Air Canada for our honeymoon for 10/26. We received a flight change email from Air Canada that they changed our flight to 10/24, our wedding date! So of course we could not make this change. They then emailed us and told us they completely cancelled the flight. We tried calling them multiple times to address this and kept getting a busy tone. Due to time constraints and not missing our honeymoon, we booked through another airline. We finally got a hold of customer support and they said that they can’t refund us because it was a “schedule change”. They cancelled the whole flight! That is not a schedule change that’s a cancellation. We are now almost $2k in the hole because Air Canada robbed us. Most unbelievable customer service I have ever experienced. Customers do not come first in their business model.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Toronto to St Lucia |
Date Flown | October 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"Seats are so cramped"
T Pehen (Canada)
✅ Trip Verified | The Boeing 787 seat pitch and size of seats are miserable. Seats are so cramped, passengers have no place to stretch. Some of the seats are close to lavatories that passengers are uncomfortably close.
Aircraft | Boeing 787-9 |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Delhi to Toronto |
Date Flown | September 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"It's disgraceful and unfair"
A Jess (Australia)
✅ Trip Verified | I have 3 flights booked with Air Canada for Oct 2020. Because of the Pandemic I'm not aloud to leave my country. I had a 5 month trip planned starting 1st Aug that included 21 flights. Air Canada are the only airline not refunding my money back and are profiting from me during the 2020 Pandemic. It's disgraceful and unfair. Singapore Airlines, Finnair, Icelandair, Swiss, United, Hawaiian Air, Alaska Air, Delta and American Airlines are refunding back in full. Air Canada are deciding to profit from their customers instead.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | New York to Toronto |
Date Flown | October 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"staff went beyond and above"
S Sousani (Canada)
Not Verified | Montreal to Vancouver with Air Canada. I was very pleased by the amount of care I received from the staff. I needed assistance and the staff went beyond and above for caring. The food was good and there was lots of attention to hygiene and cleanliness.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Montreal to Vancouver |
Date Flown | October 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | yes |
"told the money is coming""
F Kayla (Canada)
✅ Trip Verified | Had booked a flight for mid April to fly to Ecuador. The flight was from Vancouver to Toronto, Toronto to Quito. COVID happened so they cancelled our flight from Toronto to Quito and back, There was no refund. We cancelled the new flight (we didn't want to go to Toronto for two weeks) and never got our money back. We took a $500 hit for cancelling but were still owed $900- we have a receipt saying this money would be sent to us. This was at the end of March. It is now the end of September. I have multiple times spent the 2+ hours on hold with them only to be told "the money is coming" and being given random numbers like "in 51 business days" or some other such nonsense. I get COVID happened and airlines had a whole bunch of people to reroute and refund and deal with but it has been 6 months. No emails have been answered and no phone calls have led to clear answers.
Type Of Traveller | Couple Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Vancouver to Quito via Toronto |
Date Flown | April 2020 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"your safety is not their number one priority"
H Harris (Canada)
✅ Trip Verified | Man beside me refused to wear his mask properly the entire flight. He would simply slip it back on whenever the stewardess was looking. Eventually he fell asleep and I managed to point out that he was not properly wearing it (or even remaining in his own seat) and the stewardess said “he’s sleeping so..” then shrugged and walked away. So I got to spend my flight with a mask-less man invading my space and taking a full open mouth nap. Just know if you fly with Air Canada, your safety is not their number one priority. In my case, the safety of myself and other people on my flight was less important than one mans nap.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Edmonton to Toronto |
Date Flown | September 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Wifi & Connectivity | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |
"professional, helpful, attentive and friendly"
Christopher Neep (United Kingdom)
✅ Trip Verified | First long haul flight since Covid impacted travel. Check in smooth at T2 at Heathrow. Service on board to Vancouver was outstanding. The crew were professional, helpful, attentive and friendly throughout the journey. I was very impressed. Food satisfactory given the circumstances. Air Canada's IFE could be better with an improved selection of movies. However, overall, a very pleasant flight with an excellent in-flight crew.
Aircraft | Boeing 789 |
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | London to Vancouver |
Date Flown | August 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Cabin Staff Service | 12345 |
Food & Beverages | 12345 |
Inflight Entertainment | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | yes |
"luggage was not taken off the flight"
Laura Murphy (Ireland)
Not Verified | My luggage was not taken off the flight while I was stuck in immigration. I was not notified until 6 hours after my flight had left that my luggage was flown to Edmonton airport. I was not given an incident report to fill out, immigration at Toronto took my boarding passes from me! I am home 3 days now and am getting absolutely no information about my luggage. I know it is at Edmonton International airport! This is the second time my luggage has gone missing with Air Canada.
Type Of Traveller | Solo Leisure |
Seat Type | Economy Class |
Route | Dublin to Edmonton via Toronto |
Date Flown | August 2020 |
Seat Comfort | 12345 |
Ground Service | 12345 |
Value For Money | 12345 |
Recommended | no |