Sep 9, 2016, 9:35 pm
Last edit by: jaysona
Update: 14-Jan 2016, 00:50
The old website is in the process of being "retired"
Leaving the below here for now for the sake of posterity and reference.
Most of the old website URLs now redirect to the new "beta" website.
The old website is in the process of being "retired"
Leaving the below here for now for the sake of posterity and reference.
Accessing the "old" website.
At the moment (09-Sep-2016) accessing the old and functional website is still possible.
The procedure to access the old website requires a few steps.
1. Clear all aircanada.com related cookies and browser cache.
2. Go to this URL. https://www.aircanada.com/en/go-beta.html
3. Click on book travel Button at the top left of the screen.
Alternatively for some clicking on one the following links will work for some as well.
https://www.aircanada.com/aco/flights.do or;
https://www.aircanada.com/en/home.ht...ialSignon=true
"A digital transformation underway at Air Canada is reshaping the customer experience in almost every way"
At the moment (09-Sep-2016) accessing the old and functional website is still possible.
The procedure to access the old website requires a few steps.
1. Clear all aircanada.com related cookies and browser cache.
2. Go to this URL. https://www.aircanada.com/en/go-beta.html
3. Click on book travel Button at the top left of the screen.
Alternatively for some clicking on one the following links will work for some as well.
https://www.aircanada.com/aco/flights.do or;
https://www.aircanada.com/en/home.ht...ialSignon=true
"A digital transformation underway at Air Canada is reshaping the customer experience in almost every way"
New Air Canada Website!
Aug 16, 2016, 8:58 am
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Aug 16, 2016, 9:14 am
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I don't think that's possible. Doesn't the "underlying engine" run on TPF? TPF famously has only supported application code written in Assembler language. The only other possible language is an "exotic" version of C/C++ from Dignus which became available for TPF in 1999.
Aug 16, 2016, 9:18 am
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Aug 16, 2016, 10:34 am
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My laptop isn't that old (4th gen i5, 8gb ram, SSD), and it's substantially slower than the old site as well.
Aug 16, 2016, 11:55 am
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Aug 16, 2016, 12:16 pm
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Aug 16, 2016, 12:22 pm
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Aug 16, 2016, 12:45 pm
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I'll fix the image later today when I have a free moment.
Last edited by jaysona; Aug 16, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Aug 16, 2016, 1:13 pm
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Aug 16, 2016, 1:26 pm
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It's okay, the new booking engine was telling me that I couldn't look up any flight times for flights today (from YVR-YEG) since it wasn't 2hrs out. Luckily, Expedia seemed to show the flights.
Aside from the brutal interface, the booking engine seems to have gone down. This is going to be a real PITA.
Aside from the brutal interface, the booking engine seems to have gone down. This is going to be a real PITA.
Aug 16, 2016, 3:17 pm
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SFO-YYZ-ZRH-MAD // ZRH-YYZ-SFO.
I had to call it in.
So if the underlying engine is the same, then there's the problem
Aug 16, 2016, 3:42 pm
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The multicity tool initially assumes the connecting points are stopovers. So it will refuse to handle legs such as ZRH-MAD. Workaround would have been entering SFO-YYZ, then YYZ-MAD and hope that for that leg it would quote through ZRH.
The whole thing follows from one of the first downgrades, probably before you were born. aircanada.com used to work like any TA site, and they would sell you legs on any airline. Then some marketing genius decided only to quote AC flights and codeshares.
Mind you that probably was over 10, maybe 15 years ago. Has been downhill ever since.
For a little while, Lise's baby detestina would still sell you tickets on other airlines.