Transat vs Air Canada: Your choice ?

If you are not on a budget spend more. Air Transat does not have any alliances code shares with other airlines like Air Canada does as part of the Star Alliance. In case a flight is canceled Air Canada as part of the Star Alliance would have more options to get you there or back home sooner than later

I would only book Air Transat traveling solo or with another person that would not be inconvenienced by a flight being canceled while in Europe on the way back.

I would use AC for seat selection. As I don't fly with family, I don't know whether AC is like some US airlines that don't always seat parties together if uou leave it up to them. I wouldn't want to risk that. But either one, if this is some months out, airplane may change meaning a different config. If that happens, with confirmed seats you can make changes to suit.

I flew a family of four from Calgary to Dublin this summer on Transat. They were clean, cheap, on time, and all an airline should be. Granted, there are few safeguards if something goes wrong. but I believe that is also true with most other airlines too.

I do like that AirTransat lands at Terminal 3, which is so much easier to navigate than Term. 2. We usually take Bus 351 into Paris and its stop is about a 3 minute walk after we exit the terminal.

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bucephale,

I've used both and my choice is usually Air Canada for several reasons....

• they have more frequent service out of this area and better integration between the regional AC Express flights and the longer AC flights to Europe.
• as mentioned earlier, Air Canada has better connections via their Star Alliance partner airlines. That means I can check my luggage once at my home airport and then not have to retrieve it until the final destination.
• Air Canada offers many more flights than does Air Transat, which only operates to some destinations once per week.
• I can accumulate AeroPlan points with AC flights.
• the prices usually aren't much different as they both have to pay similar fuel, staff, airport fees and aircraft operation costs. As I recall, the Air Transat fleet is a bit older so won't be quite as fuel efficient (higher costs?).
• They're now part of the same company (final ruling on that in May 2020), so choose the one that has the best price and fits your schedule best. It looks like you're based out of Montreal, so won't have to take any connecting flights.

Thanks for all those answers !

All the advantages written in the last before is not something important for us. We dont have connecting flights !

Still debating.
450$ more for AIr Canada if I let Transat select our seats for free
130$ more for Air Canada if we select seat (2x2) on transat