Air Canada (AC) Airbus A319 Business Class In-Flight: San Francisco - Vancouver (SFO-YVR) 04/2009 |
| Category: In-Flight Service | 2009-04-08 |
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| I have been looking forward to this flight on Air Canada from San Francisco to Vancouver, since it is scheduled to be operated by an Embraer E190. The last time I flew on the Air Canada E190, I lost my camera and was not able to take any picture. It seems that I will have to wait yet another time to fly AC's E190, since today's flight was substituted by an Airbus A319. |
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| My son Alex and I were on our way to Tokyo, and deliberately choose this routing for picture taking opportunity on the Embraer 190, oh well, at least we will get another chance to fly on Air Canada's new herringbone style full-flat seats from Vancouver to Tokyo on the 767-300ER. |
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| The gate agent was confused for a moment, since he was also expecting an Embraer E190. When a different seatmap showed up, that was that first time that he found out about the equipment change. |
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| Air Canada's Airbus A319 has a relatively large Business Class section, with a total of 14 seats. There are three rows of two on the left, and four rows of two seats on the right hand side. |
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| My favorite row on this Airbus A319 is row 2 (which is actually the first row) on the left hand side. It has the best legroom, and even the window passenger can easily get to the aisle. |
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| There was one passenger already assigned to 2A, so my son and I settled for the next best seat, row 1 on the right hand side. |
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| There is a large closet in front of row 2 on the left, for crew luggage as well as hanging coats and jackets. On today's relatively empty flight, there is plenty of space left in the closet. |
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| One of the nice thing about row 2 on the left is the notched bulkhead, useful for small personal items. Although I have had cabin crew remind me that the space cannot be used for storage during take-offs and landings. |
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| Alex and I happily settled into our seat in row 1, and a very friendly male flight attendant offered to take this snapshot for us. |
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| There is only a curtain separating the Business Class and Economy Class cabin. Here you can see a passenger placing his carry-on luggage in the first bin just behind the curtain. |
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| First row of Economy Class just behind the last row of Business class. The dividing curtain is not even in place at this point. Noticed that coach passengers could place their luggage underneath the last row of Business class. |
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| Other than the bulk-head rows in Business class, all other rows are equipped with flip-down foot rest. It comes in handy for longer flights. |
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