Features
Air Canada turns flight planning into a mobile workflow that starts with route and date choices and continues through a confirmed trip. The Book area supports one-way, round-trip, and multi-city journeys, with airports, dates, passengers, cabin, and promotional-code options arranged around the same search. Cash bookings in this release add a low-fare calendar that compares dates around the selected departure, richer flight and seat information, side-by-side fare benefits, and a clearer review of baggage, change, and cancellation rules.
Book with the right combination: Travelers can pay with cash, redeem Aeroplan points, or combine Points + Cash when the itinerary allows it. That makes the app useful both for a straightforward fare search and for members deciding how much of a trip to cover with rewards.
Highlights
The app keeps practical travel information close to the journey instead of treating booking as the finish line. Trips provides a home for reservation details, while check-in, boarding-pass access, baggage updates, and travel notifications help turn a confirmed itinerary into a usable plan. A downloaded boarding pass can remain available offline, which is helpful when a traveler is moving through an airport with unreliable service.
The Journey experience adds step-by-step context for airport arrival, bag drop, connections, and layovers. Flight status and gate updates help passengers react to changes, while airport directions and walking times can reduce guesswork in supported terminals. Together, these tools are especially useful for connections, unfamiliar airports, and days when several small decisions need to happen in the right order.
How to Use
- Start with Book: Choose one-way, round-trip, or multi-city, then enter the departure and arrival airports, dates, passengers, and cabin. If your dates are flexible, compare the surrounding low-fare calendar before choosing an itinerary.
- Check the fare details: Review seat information, fare benefits, baggage allowances, and change or cancellation terms before moving to payment. Use cash, Aeroplan points, or Points + Cash where the booking offers those choices.
- Keep the reservation handy: After confirmation, open Trips to return to the itinerary. Use the available check-in flow before departure, then retrieve the boarding pass and save it for quick access.
- Follow the day of travel: Use Journey for arrival and connection guidance, check flight or gate updates, and open baggage tracking when you need to see progress from drop-off to arrival.
Tips and Tricks
Leave room for date flexibility. If a fare is higher than expected, check the nearby dates in the low-fare calendar and compare the total benefits rather than looking only at the headline price.
Prepare before the airport. Complete check-in when it becomes available, download the boarding pass while connected, and open it once before leaving. Keep the live view available for changes because offline passes are convenient but cannot replace current gate or disruption information.
Use the review screen as a checklist. Confirm the passenger details, seat choice, baggage terms, and change or cancellation conditions before confirming a booking. When connecting, check the Journey guidance and airport walking times early, then use flight status and bag tracking as the trip progresses.
