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Old Feb 4, 2026 | 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by ChrisA330
Likely the longer term plan, but given they'll have so few frames, the aircraft will be doing the red-eyes to Europe.

I suspect the goal is to also be able to offer lay-flats on entire journeys that involve connections in YYZ/YUL. eg: LAX-YUL-Europe. This timing works ex-NA, but doesn't work ex-Europe at this point.
One would think that there are a number of routes where having the XLR on all of the frequencies would be ideal. I guess that'll ultimately depend on the composition of the fleet when all 30 are delivered. Will be interesting to see if there is ultimately a top up order and whether AC is one of the launch customers for the A225 (further speculation for the fleet thread).
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