Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) has, for the time being, no plans to exercise its options for thirteen B787-8s given the current economic forecasts for the world and Canada, CFO Michael Rousseau was quoted by Air Transport World as saying at the recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch Transportation Conference.
According to the ch-aviation fleets module, the Canadian flag carrier currently operates eight B787-8s and twenty-six B787-9s, and has a further four units of the latter type on order from Boeing.
Recently, Air Canada has announced it will add a further four A330-300s to its existing fleet of eight units of the type in order to replace the outgoing B767-300(ER)s. The carrier also plans to invest a total of CAD275 million dollars (USD213.5 million) into cabin refurbishments of the Airbus twinjets in order to bring them on par with the newer Dreamliners.
