Just had a look at their website and you can indeed get a good deal.....as long as you're traveling on a return trip from London Uk to Toronto during the seat sale. The cheapest I found was $568.14 (Inlcuding taxes).
Whilst this still sounds like a reasonable price.....you can still get it cheaper by calling Canadian Affair on the UK number.

Having never flown with Air Canada (other than internally within Canada) I can't vouch for the standard of their service, but I've flown quite a few times with Canadian Affair from Manchester to Calgary/Vancouver and have never had any problems at all.

I refer back to my initial post on this thread......by calling the Glasgow office of Canadian Affair, I got a quote for 4 people flying from Vancouver to Manchester in May for $2606 CDN.
For the same journey with Air Canada it would cost $5446 CDN!!

Their service would have to be far far superior to justify my fiance and I paying that differnce.

I have flown with all the company's and yes whilst ca is more basic I can happily stomach it for the money saved - espesh when booked from the UK!

Ive heard this a few times now...when you do this, do you have to give a UK address? and do you need a UK credit/debit card to pay with as the fare will be in GBP.

Do they mail or email your conformation?

I heard that id you a Canadian resident the UK office wont deal with you? that could be a load of rubbish tho.

Paul

gave our canadaian address, paid with a canadian cc.
they email the itinery about a month before you fly

I always pay with our Canadian visa card. I give my Canadian address. Those girls are on commission, they dont care where you live as long as they get the sale

Hi,

What is the telephone number of the office of Canadian Affairs in the UK, Please?

011 44 20 76169184

British Airways have a sale on until Jan 25th and are currently cheaper than Air Canada from Calgary.

One adult, one child mid-week return trip in mid-March was coming in at $1,884. Just another one to consider.

I booked our June flights from Ottawa-London via their Glasgow office, paid in pounds on our Canadian Credit Card and it was a lot cheaper than paying via the CDN website....

I had originally looked at Air Canada and with CDN affair we can both fly for the same price Air Canada would have charged for 1 person.

If only Air canada would realise that if they reduced prices instead of being greedy, more people would fly more often!!!

I couldn't agree more! And the same goes for BA too. I've travelled a lot from the UK to the States over the last 20 years or so, and nearly always flew with them, but now they are also just too expensive.

I have never had any probs with CDN Affair, and the meals they serve are always pretty good too so they would always be my first choice.

Thanks everyone, I will certainly be giving that a try the next trip I plan, so you can obviosuly look online first - to see what flights are on offer then give them a call and see what they offer it for.

Although I did got back in October and got a good deal online then - $630 Toronto - Manchester, Birmingham - Toronto, that will be tough to beat I think

Worth a try tho!

Cheers

Paul

Yeah definitely Paul, have a look at the prices online and then call the UK number.....I can almost guarantee they will give you a better price than you see online!

There is a world of difference between a simple charter operation and one that operates a hub and spoke model especially within a global interlined network (e.g. Star Alliance). They serve very different purposes and markets.

Also the advantage of a scheduled airline with lots of planes in lots of places really shows up in IROPS.

Air Canada's load factor transatlantic is usually around 85%, hitting 90% or better in the summer. Plenty of people are flying with them and often.

If you book a flight from Seattle it is always cheaper than if you book from Vancouver, just a thought for anyone flying from this end of the continent.

Course you can expect to have your baggage lost (thought it also mostly always turns up again a day or so later), thankfully not happened to me though my bags came on the flight before my flight without telling me once! Not funny waiting by yourself at midnight and no one tells you until you asked, grrrr.

Anyway, I tend to fly from Canada out of choice moreso now as I don't get any baggage issues this way. And most friends I know of have all lost their bags for a day or so (friends from the States, as well as in Canada). My parents lost theirs for a day too flying to Canada from New York last year, ruined their first night here. Thankfully they did get it back the next day as they were informed they likely would.

Seattle gets my votes. You tend to save if only because of the ridiculous taxes that Vancouver adds on. BA gets my vote too and last time I flew from Seattle with them I got a choice of 2 flights compared with one from Vancouver. Even with the additional travel and parking costs it worked out something like $1500 cheaper for 4 of us compared with going locally. Then had to clear customs twice but no issues there.