Air Canada Clean Care+ program
Dec 23, 2020, 2:47 pm
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Upthread (or in another thread) int'l J was discussed having ANC headsets... so it would be great to see them back in NA SS.
Dec 23, 2020, 3:14 pm
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This page > Read before you fly > Day of travel > Onboard food and beverage service
When you click on Air Canada Signature Class – International, you get:
Amenities and additional safety measures
- A pillow, duvet, and mattress cover, packaged together in a plastic bag, will be waiting on your seat.
- After boarding, a travel essentials bag will be distributed, containing a Customer Care Kit (with mask, hand sanitizer, water bottle, and a snack), want les essentiels amenity kit, and a noise cancelling headset for use during your flight.
When you click on Air Canada Signature Class – North America & North America Business Class, you get:
Amenities and additional safety measures
- Shortly after boarding, Customer Care Kits will be distributed, containing a mask, hand sanitizer, water bottle, A headset and a snack.
- For those in Air Canada Signature Class, a pillow, duvet, and mattress cover, packaged together in a plastic bag, will be waiting at every seat.
- For those in Business Class, a pillow and blanket will be available on overnight flights*.
Dec 23, 2020, 3:27 pm
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No, that text you posted is for international.
This page > Read before you fly > Day of travel > Onboard food and beverage service
When you click on Air Canada Signature Class – International, you get:
The text you quoted in your previous post is the second bullet.
When you click on Air Canada Signature Class – North America & North America Business Class, you get:
This page > Read before you fly > Day of travel > Onboard food and beverage service
When you click on Air Canada Signature Class – International, you get:
The text you quoted in your previous post is the second bullet.
When you click on Air Canada Signature Class – North America & North America Business Class, you get:
I kept my hopes up and now I can't stop ugly crying.
I wonder what makes it safer to have ANC headsets on international SS flights and not on NA SS flights.
Dec 23, 2020, 3:31 pm
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It's not safer. I'm sure AC is just more willing to spend the time and money properly cleaning/disinfecting them for international J pax than North America pax.
Dec 23, 2020, 3:34 pm
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But, IANAAOE.
Dec 23, 2020, 3:38 pm
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But, IANAAOE.
Dec 23, 2020, 3:43 pm
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I'm sure they do have a lot of headsets, but each time a headset gets used, they have to be collected, sent to wherever they get cleaned, someone has to take a few minutes to clean them, then re-package them... There's a cost to that. It's not going to cost $50 a headset, but what, $2? $5? $1? And why spend it now? On my flights in J, I see huge numbers of people wearing their own NC headsets anyway, and others who wear earbuds of some sort. I don't think having them is a huge differentiator for AC.
Having said that, bringing one's own becomes useful to tune out the MLL blowhards on loudest-volume-Facetime "Look Grandma I'm in the Air Canada First Class Lounge! Imma gonna go to Disney World and have my Grey Poupon!"
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Dec 23, 2020, 4:22 pm
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Dec 23, 2020, 7:15 pm
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I forgot that the chord for my ANC headset did not have a 3.5mm plug and only plugged into Apple devices. Having an AC-provided headset would have saved me a lot of anguish on an 8.5 hour day flight
Dec 23, 2020, 8:33 pm
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I've had crew offer various adapters or power plugs from their own personal or found somewhere on board... well, pre-Covid.
but yeah, semi FWP annoyed that there's no ANC offered as part of the NA SS CleanCare+ kits.
Jan 9, 2021, 6:07 pm
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Transport Canada backtracks on policy forcing 2-year-olds to mask-up on planes
Transport Canada has quietly raised the mandatory age for children wearing face masks on planes from two to six years old. The move follows at least two public incidents where toddlers were kicked off domestic flights for not wearing a face covering.
Back in April, Transport Canada mandated that air passengers aged two and up wear a mask when travelling, to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Under Transport Canada's new revised regulations, now children from ages two to five don't have to mask-up if they're unable to tolerate wearing one.
Transport Canada has quietly raised the mandatory age for children wearing face masks on planes from two to six years old. The move follows at least two public incidents where toddlers were kicked off domestic flights for not wearing a face covering.
Back in April, Transport Canada mandated that air passengers aged two and up wear a mask when travelling, to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Under Transport Canada's new revised regulations, now children from ages two to five don't have to mask-up if they're unable to tolerate wearing one.
Jan 9, 2021, 8:08 pm
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Jan 9, 2021, 8:16 pm
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Jan 9, 2021, 8:16 pm
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