Originally Posted by
mellon
The good news is AC has lots of 767's, and no plans so far to replace them.Oh no widebody's on order. Oh wait AC did buy 4 used A330s planes from the budget airline TAP, perhaps a few less 767s will be here in another year..
AC mainline has already largely replaced their 767s with new 789s. Widebody orders: they have received 27 Dreamliners and have a pair still to come. The used A333s you mention are also designed in part to replace the 767 fleet.
As per the image below (from this AC presentation:
https://www.aircanada.com/content/da...018_MDA_q3.pdf), the last six remaining 767s will no longer sport the toothpaste scheme after this year (and will not be transferred to Rouge).
AC Rouge on the other hand, will retain their 25 767s for a few more years yet. I'm not aware of any meaningful or developed plan to replace them, but given their amortized cost, reasonable operating costs in current fuel prices and the investment they've sunk into them (winglets etc), we can expect to cram our half-inch-too-big roll-aboards sideways for a few more trips to come.