{"id":75898,"date":"2020-01-15T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mp-2702.milesopedia.dev\/news\/a220-aircanada\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:30:10","slug":"a220-aircanada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mp-2702.milesopedia.dev\/en\/news\/airlines\/a220-aircanada\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Air Canada A220 & more about the loyalty program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Air Canada’s new Airbus A220<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Unveiled to the media<\/a> on January 15, 2020, the Airbus A220, despite its youth, has a long history behind it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air Canada ordered<\/a> 45 A220-300<\/strong> (the largest one) in 2016 when the aircraft was still a Bombardier CSeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in 2017, when Bombardier was facing significant difficulties in selling the aircraft (mainly due to pressure from Boeing to heavily tax Mirabel’s sales to U.S. airlines), Airbus came to support the CSeries program by acquiring a 50.01% stake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seen by many Canadians as an abandonment of a Canadian technology flagship, however, it was the right decision for Bombardier to ally with the European aerospace giant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Airbus has created an assembly line in the United States to circumvent U.S. rules and kept Mirabel’s one to build A220 for other companies like Air Canada<\/strong>. And Airbus has opened its commercial network to sell this great aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air Canada went all out for this beautiful day at its head office in Montreal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is the A220 so much talked about?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Airbus A220 can be summed up in 3 essential points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n