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Air Canada has decked out an Airbus A220 airplane with graphics on the side to promote the upcoming Disney Pixar animated film, ‘Turning Red’, directed by Academy Award winner and Canadian Domee Shi. “As Canada’s largest airline and the country’s flag carrier, our collaboration with Disney and Pixar for Turning Red, directed by award-winning Canadian...

Air Canada announced on Friday it is launching a digital solution for travellers to scan, upload and verify COVID-19 test results, all within its mobile app. The feature will let customers "validate compliance with government health travel requirements prior to arriving at the airport." Travel technology company Amadeus is working with Air Canada on the...

According to the HRReporter, Canada’s largest airline is all set to test out a new contact tracing technology for its employees that uses wearable devices and a Bluetooth-enabled app. TraceScan, the technology behind the app Air Canada will be testing, was designed locally in Canada — in collaboration with researchers from the University of Waterloo — […]

Air Canada has launched a redesigned iPhone app, which will let you “travel like an expert." According to the airline, the new app has notifications to keep you informed of booking and flight changes, has a new simplified boarding pass experience (with Apple Wallet support), is optimized for offline use and also will “securely store...

Earlier this year, Air Canada acquired Aeroplan in a $450 million deal, and now we’re seeing the acquisition start to affect existing partnerships. Carrot Rewards, which offers a wellness app for iOS and Android, has announced Aeroplan has decided to end its relationship with the app—starting on April 30, 2019. In an email to Carrot...

An investigation yesterday by TechCrunch revealed numerous travel apps, including Air Canada, had secret screen recording code, monitoring and taking screenshots of user interactions and personal data. The screen recording was via a tool from analytics company Glassbox, used by developers to determine if an app is functioning properly or not. In Air Canada’s iPhone...

TechCrunch is reporting many iPhone apps--particularly travel apps--are secretly recording your screen, without your permission, including Air Canada’s popular iOS app. The revelations come from mobile expert, App Analyst, which found many apps deploying a “session replay” technology from customer experience analytics firm, Glassbox. Companies utilize Glassbox to record user sessions to let developers see...

Air Canada announced today it has closed on its acquisition of Aeroplan and its operator Aimia Canada. The announcement means Air Canada’s new loyalty program set to debut in 2020 will see Aeroplan miles honoured at a one-to-one basis. "Air Canada is creating an industry-leading loyalty program that aims to provide unmatched flexibility, choice and convenience for...

According to Air Canada, 20,000 of their mobile app users may have had their information stolen in a data breach. The airline says they "detected unusual login behaviour with Air Canada’s mobile App between Aug. 22-24, 2018.” The company then blocked login attempts and “implemented additional protocols to protect against further unauthorized attempts." A further...

An Air Canada-led group has unveiled their bid to buy back Aeroplan in a deal set to be valued at $2.25 billion. The group includes TD Bank, CIBC, and Visa Canada, which all have long-standing relationships with Aeroplan's parent company Aimia. Under the current proposal, the group would acquire Aimia's loyalty business which includes about...

On Friday, Air Canada and WestJet announced that they severed ties with travel app Hopper. The news comes after a widespread report detailing how the airfare prediction app was launching "secret fares" to their users. Hopper was apparently offering seats for a discount of up to 35 percent, which got them in hot water with...

Two of Canada's largest airlines, Air Canada and WestJet, are among the first global airlines to make some of their seats available at a large discount. The airlines are using Montreal-based airfare prediction app Hopper to unload some of their seats via "secret fares" discounts of up to 35 percent. The developer behind the app...