Oct 3, 2016, 9:53 pm
Last edit by: YVR72
Note: please keep this thread to information on the refurbishment program and its progress; for discussion of which seats are best and other details about the interiors, please visit the seating information thread.
A330-300 Fleet Overview
AC currently has two configurations of 333:
A330-300 Fleet Overview
AC currently has two configurations of 333:
- Dream Cabin (16 aircraft): Latest 3-class configuration in line with the 787 and 777 fleets (seat map)
- The "Merlions" (2 aircraft): ex-Singapore Airlines 2-class configuration (seat map), which are expected to be reconfigured to the Dream Cabin.
- Important note: the front cabin on these aircraft is an angle-flat product in a 2-2-2 layout that was SQ's "regional" business class. On flights within North America, AC sells it as J; on international flights, they sell it as PY. These aircraft do not have the standard AC PY cabin
- Since October 2023, these aircraft primarily operate YYZ>BOG>YUL triangle, and YUL<>LAX.
Code:
32J 24O 241Y: 297 pax C-GFAF (931) Completed @HKG, Oct 01/23 - Dec 09/23 [69 days] C-GFAH (932) Completed @QPG, Aug 10/21 - Oct 05/21 [56 days] C-GFAJ (933) Completed @QPG, Nov 24/21 - Jan 12/22 [49 days] C-GFUR (934) Completed @QPG, Oct 08/19 - Feb 28/20 [143 days] C-GHKR (935) Completed @QPG, Oct 04/21 - Nov 25/21 [52 days] C-GHKW (936) Completed @HKG, Nov 27/21 - Feb 21/22 [86 days] C-GHKX (937) Completed @RFD, Sep 02/20 - May 30/21 [271 days] C-GHLM (938) Completed @HKG, Sep 30/22 - Dec 11/22 [72 days] C-GEFA (939) Completed @RFD, Dec 31/20 - Mar 29/21 [89 days] C-GEGC (940) Completed @QPG, May 17/22 - Jul 21/22 [67 days] C-GEGI (941) Completed @QPG, Jan 10/22 - Mar 11/22 [60 days] C-GEGP (942) Completed @QPG, Nov 06/19 - Jul 01/20 [238 days] C-GHKC (943) Completed @HKG, Feb 21/22 - May 05/22 [73 days] C-GKUG (944) Completed @QPG, Mar 02/20 - Feb 10/21 [345 days] C-GKUH (945) Completed @RFD, Oct 08/20 - Jan 12/21 [99 days] C-GOFV (946) SQ configuration C-GOFW (947) Completed @QPG, Feb 03/22 - May 20/22 [107 days] C-GXZD (948) SQ configuration
Air Canada Airbus A330-300 refurbishments
Nov 10, 2016, 7:48 am
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Nov 13, 2016, 8:04 am
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C-GHLM lands at ~11:30AM EST in YYZ today, with around 5 hours to spare before its first post-reconfiguration flight to Zurich ^
https://www.flightradar24.com/ACA7174/b993b7d
https://www.flightradar24.com/ACA7174/b993b7d
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Nov 17, 2016, 10:01 am
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I'll have to watch these flights a little more closely and see if I can snag a flight on one of the updated a/c. ^
Nov 17, 2016, 1:16 pm
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Maybe the plane will get a deep clean.
Nov 17, 2016, 1:40 pm
#113
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Unless you fly PE, I don't imagine there is anything to ^. J will be the same but fewer seats (I suppose a positive in some peoples' eyes is less availability for scum sucking bottom feeders to upgrade. Y will be the same except for more pax fighting over fewer lavs.
Maybe the plane will get a deep clean.
Maybe the plane will get a deep clean.
Nov 17, 2016, 1:42 pm
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Unless you fly PE, I don't imagine there is anything to ^. J will be the same but fewer seats (I suppose a positive in some peoples' eyes is less availability for scum sucking bottom feeders to upgrade. Y will be the same except for more pax fighting over fewer lavs.
Maybe the plane will get a deep clean.
Maybe the plane will get a deep clean.
Nov 17, 2016, 3:59 pm
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Sneaky AC!!
As suspected, those sneaky .......s snuck in two more Y rows!! 31&32!
Doesn't look like they're selling PE yet, probably waiting for at least a second aircraft to come out of the shop for reliability.
Where was the 33" Y pitch before? I would guess the rear section of Y seating hasn't been changed then?
Doesn't look like they're selling PE yet, probably waiting for at least a second aircraft to come out of the shop for reliability.
Where was the 33" Y pitch before? I would guess the rear section of Y seating hasn't been changed then?
Nov 17, 2016, 4:09 pm
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As suspected, those sneaky .......s snuck in two more Y rows!! 31&32!
Doesn't look like they're selling PE yet, probably waiting for at least a second aircraft to come out of the shop for reliability.
Where was the 33" Y pitch before? I would guess the rear section of Y seating hasn't been changed then?
Doesn't look like they're selling PE yet, probably waiting for at least a second aircraft to come out of the shop for reliability.
Where was the 33" Y pitch before? I would guess the rear section of Y seating hasn't been changed then?
Nov 17, 2016, 4:18 pm
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As suspected, those sneaky .......s snuck in two more Y rows!! 31&32!
Doesn't look like they're selling PE yet, probably waiting for at least a second aircraft to come out of the shop for reliability.
Where was the 33" Y pitch before? I would guess the rear section of Y seating hasn't been changed then?
Doesn't look like they're selling PE yet, probably waiting for at least a second aircraft to come out of the shop for reliability.
Where was the 33" Y pitch before? I would guess the rear section of Y seating hasn't been changed then?
33" legroom: 18-30 DEFG
32" legroom: 18-26 AC, 18-30JK, 35-42 AC JK, 34-50DEFG
31" legroom: 27-30AC, 43-51 AC JK
But as Wpgjetse said, it could be coming from moving the cabin forward and thus have no decrease in legroom. We haven't had any reports yet to confirm anything...
Nov 17, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Could be a bit of both. However the two seat maps show row 18 well over the wing in the old configuration, roughly two row ahead in the new one.