Air Canada’s new leisure airline takes flight

Air Canada’s new leisure airline Rouge is now flying out of Vancouver. The low-cost subsidiary of Air Canada was launched at Vancouver International Airport today.

The Rouge-stylized airbus 319 can carry up to 142 passengers and specializes in flights to vacation destinations outside of Canada.

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“It’s the perfect size aircraft for three to four hour flight destinations in the United States,” said Renee Smith-Valade, VP of Customer Relations for Air Canada.

Rouge airlines offers daily non-stop flights to Las Vegas, Phoenix and Anchorage, as well as four flights a day to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

There are currently 18 planes in the fleet and Smith-Valade said they will grow to 43 this year with 50 planes being the overall total for the fleet.