Air Canada Express is a

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of regional feeder flights for

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that are subcontracted to other airlines. As of March 2021,

Jazz Aviation Jazz Aviation LP, commonly shortened to Jazz, is a Canadian regional airline based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, in Enfield, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chorus Aviation. Jazz Aviation provides regiona ...

is the sole operator of Air Canada Express. They primarily connect smaller cities with Air Canada's domestic hub airports and focus cities, although they offer some point-to-point and international service to the

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History

On April 26, 2011, it was reported that

decided to retire the Air Canada Jazz brand and created the Air Canada Express brand. Prior to establishing the Express name, the flights operated primarily under the Air Canada Jazz or

Air Canada Alliance Air Canada Alliance was a Brand, brand name under which Air Georgian operated short-haul flights on behalf of Air Canada. The Air Canada Alliance was used from 2002, until Air Canada Express was formed in 2011. Air Georgian operated a fleet of Bee ...

banners. As of January 2020,

Air Georgian Air Georgian Limited was a privately owned charter airline based at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Between 2000 and 2020 its main business was its operation as Air Canada Express on a Tier III codeshare ...

no longer provides services under the capacity purchase agreement. Those services were transferred back to

. On March 1, 2021, it was also announced that Sky Regional would also no longer provide services under the capacity purchase agreement and therefore

would become the sole operator of the express brand.

Destinations

Operators and fleet

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Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-200ER, Air Canada Jazz AN1002797

Current fleet

As of January 2022, the fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Historical fleet

The Air Canada Express brand, through its various regional and commuter airline partners, operated a variety of turbofan and twin turboprop aircraft over the years including the following types: *

Bombardier CRJ100 The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 (previously Canadair CRJ100 and CRJ200) is a regional jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace between 1991 and 2006, the first of the Bombardier CRJ family. The ''Canadair Regional Jet'' (CRJ) pr ...

Beechcraft 1900D The Beechcraft 1900 is a 19-passenger, pressurized twin-engine turboprop regional airliner manufactured by Beechcraft. It is also used as a freight aircraft and corporate transport, and by several governmental and military organizations. With ...

* De Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 * De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300

References

External links

*
Online list of Air Canada fleet
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