Air Canada Expands Canada-Italy Service, Introduces Codeshare Flights to Venice and Bologna

Air Canada continues to improve air access to Europe with the expansion of service between Canada and Italy. Effective November 19, 2002, Air Canada will offer daily flights to Venice and Bologna on a codeshare basis via Frankfurt in cooperation with its Star Alliance partner, Lufthansa, and effective today offers flights between Munich and Venice five times per week in cooperation with Lufthansa partner airline, Air Dolomiti. Flights are scheduled to provide customers with convenient connections to Air Canada's non-stop flights to both Frankfurt and Munich.

Members of Air Canada's frequent flyer program, Aeroplan, enjoy accumulation and redemption benefits on these new services. "Our expansion of service to Venice and Bologna, the third and fourth largest markets, respectively, for air travel between Canada and Italy, builds on our daily non-stop service between Toronto and Rome, and our codeshare service between Toronto and Milan," said Ross MacCormack, Senior Vice President, International and Alliances. "We look forward to continuing to improve air access between Canada and Italy, particularly to points in southern Italy, in the new year. The addition of Venice and Bologna as new Air Canada destinations further enhances our extensive European network and contributes to the strength of the Star Alliance global network."

Air Canada offers daily non-stop service between Toronto and Rome and five times weekly codeshare service between Toronto and Milan. Air Canada also offers daily non-stop flights between Montréal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Frankfurt, as well as non-stop flights five times weekly between Toronto and Munich.