Air Canada
Star AllianceAC· ACA· AIR CANADA· Montreal· Flying since 1937· North America· Official site
3.6
5 reviews
100%
would recommend
27
pay reports
What crew at Air Canada report
The things an employer never publishes and a review cannot hold as a number: whether they are recruiting, how long the upgrade takes, what the rating cost, what the selection process is, what the roster does, and what the layovers are like.
Is this carrier hiring
Crew-reported, over the last 6 months. Older signals stop counting.
- Hiring and running courses43%
- Hiring, but slowly or selectively57%
- Recruitment frozen0%
- Redundancies or fleet reductions0%
What crew inside Air Canada say, not a company statement. Recruitment turns over in months, so this is a window rather than a running total.
How long the upgrade takes
Crew-reported time in rank, published in years.
Upgraded (6)
5.1 yr
5.1 – 5.4 typical
Still waiting (5)
8.2 yr
8.1 – 8.6 typical
The upgrade figure is over the crew it has happened to. Where the waiting figure is higher, the queue is longer than the people who got through suggest.
The roster, as flown
What the contract says, and what crew actually get.
Days off, contracted
9
Days off, actual
7
Roster published
10 d ahead
Changes after
5 / mo
Crew here lose a median of 2 days off a month against what they are contracted.
Patterns flown
- 5 on, 4 off57%
- 5 on, 3 off43%
- 6 on, 3 off0%
- 6 on, 2 off0%
- 4 on, 3 off0%
- Rotational or block roster0%
- No fixed pattern0%
43% of crew reporting here actually commute to this base.
Type rating and bonds
What crew paid to get rated, and what it tied them to.
- I paid, up front57%
- I paid, deducted from salary0%
- Employer paid, with a bond43%
- Employer paid, no bond0%
Paid by crew
Members
4 paid something
Bond
Members
The selection process
What crew who applied say it consisted of.
- Online assessment or aptitude test100%
- Group exercise or assessment day25%
- HR or competency interview100%
- Simulator assessment75%
Difficulty
3 / 5
Application to answer
9 wk
4 who heard back
The time figure covers processes that ended. Applications nobody ever answered have no week count and are left out of it rather than counted as fast.
Layovers
The hotel, the rest, and whether the allowance covered it.
- The hotel itself123.6
- Could you actually sleep123.6
- Crew transport123.8
- Where it is, and getting out of it123.5
- Did the allowance cover the stay123.0
Median rest at the hotel: 21 hours.
Hotels crew have named
The fleet
What they operate, and what crew think of it.
No fleet list has been loaded for this carrier. We publish aircraft counts and ages only from a cited source, never an estimate.
What crew flying it say
- Condition of the cabin and flight deck45.0
- Does it go tech43.0
- Comfort with the defects you are asked to carry42.5
Crew perception, from 4 reports. Not a safety or airworthiness record.
Best-rated destinations
Where this carrier sends crew, ranked on the hotel.
- AKLAuckland44.0
- ADDAddis Ababa43.5
- AGPMalaga43.2
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