Air Canada is teasing five new routes launching in summer 2027 with a clue-filled video. Here's a breakdown of the possible hints and destinations.
The black and red dragon plush may symbolize Ljubljana, city of dragons.
Dragons also are a symbol of Tallinn, Estonia. There's no existing flights to any of the Baltic countries from anywhere in North America AFAIK. A nonstop to Tallinn would be a cool addition (though seems unlikely).
FWIW I'm not gushing with joy at the prospect of flying across oceans on any narrow body, cramped A321XLR. I'll take a connection and a widebody over that experience. At least it might free up some 787s.
That'd be nuts, like, yet another random flight to Slovenia that no one really asked for. Sorry, I'm being told by my handlers to... 'be best!'
Montego Bay is roughly at 19 degrees north and 77 degrees, 55 minutes west. That would match the 19:55 departure time on the boarding pass. It's out there, but United's gone weirder than that on their clues.
This clue thing is getting old real quick. Just let us know where you are flying to.
In the Green & White attired man photo, notice how the terminal signage points to EH9 <-.
There's not an actual EH9 gate in Toronto, that's photoshopped, most likely referring to the postal district in Edinburgh.
Green and white are the colours of Hibs who interesting enough were the inspiration for Celtic. Problis However Easter road is EH7 and the airport is EH12 also theirs seasonal serviceto Toronto.
Woman with dragon: DBV
Red/white Croatian check headscarf and dragon... Game of Thrones was filmed in Dubrovnik.
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"DA27" might also be a hint towards Basel. The airport sits at an elevation of 270 meters, "DA" could be an abbreviation for "dual arrival" or something similar in French, as you can exit the airport either on the Swiss or on the French side.
The dragon could point to Krakow as well?
ZAG (red and white checkered flag)
HAM/DUS/CGN (Rimowa suitcase)
It's cool when airlines play the guessing game.
However AC screwed up buying the 321xlr, the first 6 have the wrong engines, and and way to much density, so they won't be going deep into Europe.
As Air Canada is progressing into a full budget airline they new places need to be tourist destinations.
Let hope SGN or JNB but thats probably dreaming as AC has not bought any of the new longer range 787-9s
They were primarily bought for winter transatlantic flying so the widebodies from those can be expanded to some of the winter focused traffic. Winter TATL traffic is a tough market to maintain a large widebody when you don't have the demand to fill the back of the plane
Le Concours s’adresse à tous les résidents canadiens.
The flipboard at the start of the video seems to spell Guangzhou?
The black dragon-thing is from a Canadian company that imports carnival toys from...Shanghai. This particular one is a 1998 design.
I can't help but notice that the person running with it is wearing a white and red checkered headscarf--that would suggest Croatia...possibly Split?
CORRECTION: Noting the other comments that support Zagreb as the Croation city, I would agree and change my answer from Split--in whic case the "1998" dragon is 19 (one of Zagreb's area codes) and 98 is a mobile number prefix (HT telekom) [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Croatia#List_of_area_codes ]
it seems OKA is getting some love....hope i can get the UA or AC flight next year.
The dragon could refer to Game of Thrones. The girl is wearing a red/white checkered scarf. DBV would be my guess on this one
You also miss that the FA is name Clare, which is the county of SNN
Dragon = GoT = Croatia?
If there is a GOT reference…. The case being loaded on the plane has MIA… surely not Miami, but how about Malta International Airport. Taking a page out of the delta playbook, and serving the Maltese community in Toronto
Just what we need. Another load of tourist. When we moved here seven years ago, there were about a million flying in. Now it's over 2,400,000.
Malta has 560,000 peeps here. They drive 365,000 cars,. Not enough room to walk around here.
Canuck go home!q
Malta's airport code is MLA, not MIA. The "L" is for "Luqa" the community where the airport is.
The boarding card includes the date June 2, which could be the day the flights launch.
Yeah, the cross on the water bottle seems an obvious clue for Switzerland. The red/white checker scarf on the little girl seems pointing to Croatia. I think Ben's right about Lagos for the green jacket/map of Africa as well. The "DOH" airport code repeated seems to be another obvious one for Doha.
Personally, I'd like to see more N. America to SE Asia, so, whoever's on that SGN-train, sign me up.
The clue on Switzerland could be various new routes: Montreal or Toronto to BSL (on A321XLR, seasonal service by AirTransat), YYZ to GVA, YUL to ZRH. But there are also other options, like Calgary (YYC) to ZRH, Halifax (YHZ) to ZRH (both seasonal services by Edelweiss).
Unlikely is Whitehorse (YXY) to ZRH, which was previously served by Edelweiss, but AC has no base there.