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An Outline Of Air Canada's Airline
Air Canada is the flagship and the largest air carrier of Canada. The airline was formed on 11th April 1937, is one of the biggest domestic and international air carrier connection over 190 destinations over five continents. U.K. research agency called Skytrax has claimed Air Canada to be the sole international network carrier in North America to obtain a Four-Star ranking with a fleet of 367 Aircraft and its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Air Canada Provides scheduled passenger service and goods transportation within Canada, the Canada-U.S trans-border and the international market to and from Canada. The airliner serves more than 38 million passengers per annum and is one of the founding member of Star AllianceTM, which

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