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[flieslikeachicken]

Interviewer here. Feel free to reach out to the hiring team if you haven't heard back after 10 weeks.

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[jpilot77]

What makes you think that? There's 80 aircraft being delivered in the next 4 years with hundreds of retirements. Might be a pause for a month or two but I don't doubt there will still be massive hiring for the next few years.

Hiring in 2024 will likely pause until the fall possibly winter. As noted the airline has lots of firm orders but the EIS for the 321XLR and 787-10 appear to be slipping into mid 2026 from late 2025, that alone would be reason enough to pause PIT classes for 4-5 months. If there isn't a slight panic in YUL over the potential for a recession, I'd be shocked. US carriers have already made public statements about weakening demand. Air Canada's #1 priority is to make money, not growth, not recapturing lost market share, or entering into price wars. Matching capacity to demand will be their objective.

At least publicly, there seems to be very little clarity about the actual operational fleet plan.

Yes, there are ‘fleet charts’ contained in the MD&A. But there is also commentary on the Q&A segment of the quarterly calls about “retire some older aircraft ” that is not yet reflected in the fleet charts.

Cameron Doerksen

Good morning. Just a question on the fleet. And obviously, there's been a number of aircraft that have been kind of pushed to the right here. But if I look at 2026, 35 aircraft coming in is a pretty big chunk of planes. So, I'm just wondering how you manage that kind of high level of deliveries coming in? And are you thinking about any potential opportunities to maybe defer some of those to later years, just to kind of smooth out the delivery profile?

Mark Galardo

No, in 2026, I mean, from a widebody point of view, we'll see maybe a couple of 787-10s, and we'll start seeing the first 321s, the XLRs, and we've been waiting for those for a long time, right? So, I think that we'll see the cadence of them. But our expectation now is probably starting in Q1 '26, we start taking those aircraft. And there's a lot of 220s. I'd say that overall, we've been waiting for these aircraft. We're ready to deploy them, and we'll be bringing them in, in 2026, and we plan for the CapEx.

So, we're managing the business around those parameters, and we have been for now, probably a couple of years in anticipation. So, I don't see anything else needed to be done really to enable the effect of deployment of the aircraft, and we have opportunities here to retire some older aircraft as well.

Michael Rousseau

Yes. And Cameron, it's Mike. Just to pile on I mean, we've built the resources around to take these planes in. These planes are important to our new frontiers plan to our long-range plan. And so, we're excited and the entire company is excited about taking these 4 type fleet types in next year. And so, we're ready to take them in and leverage them as we go forward.

So I guess the question is - what is this ‘new frontiers’ plan?

When is the Rouge transition to the 737MAX? What will come of the current Rouge NB fleet? Repatriation to mainline? One cannot help but think that will result in the continued retirement of the 319 fleet.

B767? That cannot be a long term fleet type. And the freighter operation?

B777-200? Replaced by 787-10?

Fleet plan shows +35 airframes in 2026. That would normally equate to 500-600 pilot positions. Some of these positions are probably already baked in to the 2025 bids to date. But there are probably some underutilized airframes and others that will ultimately be departing the fleet. The economy and US travel patterns will also affect fleet decisions.

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The 787-10 doesn’t have the range to replace the 77-200. I could see it replacing the 330.

[CaptDukeNukem]

Interviewer here. Feel free to reach out to the hiring team if you haven't heard back after 10 weeks.

Best of luck.

What does "you were unsuccessful in the interview. We will contact you for a second interview" actually mean?

Probably exactly that.

[cdnavater]

Interviewer here. Feel free to reach out to the hiring team if you haven't heard back after 10 weeks.

Best of luck.

What does "you were unsuccessful in the interview. We will contact you for a second interview" actually mean?

Probably exactly that.

you always have a way with words!

[CaptDukeNukem]

What does "you were unsuccessful in the interview. We will contact you for a second interview" actually mean?

Probably exactly that.

you always have a way with words!

Thanks!