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Feb 16, 2019, 5:59 pm

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Originally Posted by Fiordland

I think it is the case that AC likes aircraft that have lower cost of ownership and are when it comes to wide body aircraft there are a lot of route they operate on where a smaller wide-body makes sense. The 767 and now the 330 are good first for a number of their European routes.

Actually, the A330-300 isn't exactly a small aircraft. In AC's current configuration it seats only 6 pax less than the 787-9 (and 41 pax more compared to the 787-8). The new config remains to be seen.

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