Full flight | Air Canada Boeing 787-9 | AC345 Ottawa to Vancouver (C-FGEO - Mar 2025)

Описание: Welcome onboard! On 17 March 2025, I flew on Air Canada's daily direct flight from Ottawa to Vancouver on my way back home from Motivate Canada's ViaYouth Summit in Halifax. The second and final leg of my trip, I had a brief layover in Canada's capital after connecting there from Halifax on PAL Airlines' Q400.

In contrast to my flight on this same flight number in February 2024, this one was pure perfection, and so memorable. Unlike last year's AC345, this one was very empty, the economy cabin was only about 10% filled meaning everyone got the whole row to themselves, the flight was daytime all the way (mainly due to daylight saving) with cloudless scenes of the terrain almost all the way, and thanks to the empty cabin, I got a chance to try the business class lunch/dinner meal, a very tasty mac & cheese that was one of the best meals I've ever had on a flight. We also had one of the best and friendliest crews I've seen, and arrived half an hour ahead of schedule thanks to minimal headwinds.

Thank you to Motivate Canada for making my dreams come true as a host/facilitator of a major youth summit and for organizing our flights including this one, and thank you Air Canada and the crew of AC345 for such an amazing experience onboard!

Filmed on 17 March 2025

Camera: GoPro Hero 12 Black

Aircraft: Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
Registration: C-FGEO
MSN: 37180/409
Delivered: Mar 2016
Engines: GEnx-1B74/75
Configuration: C30W21Y247 (298)
Seat: 33A
Callsign: Air Canada 345 (ACA345)
Flight time: 04 hr 33 min
Departure: Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (CYOW/YOW)
scheduled: 18.00 EDT, actual 18.08 EDT
Arrival: Vancouver International Airport (CYVR/YVR)
scheduled: 20.13 PDT, actual 19.41 PDT

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HIGHLIGHTS:
00:00:00 - intro
00:00:14 - seat overview
00:02:36 - window dimming
00:05:15 - captain's welcome announcement
00:07:01 - maintenance checking the lights before departure
00:12:03 - purser's welcome announcement
00:15:45 - safety video
00:16:09 - pushback from gate 28
00:20:18 - engine start
00:22:02 - hydraulics powered on
00:22:36 - flaps & slats selected for departure
00:23:10 - taxi to runway 32
00:24:23 - control surfaces test
00:27:23 - takeoff on runway 32
00:30:09 - crossing into Quebec over the Ottawa River
00:49:31 - reached cruise altitude of 40,000 ft (FL400; 12,192 m) over Lac Dumoine
00:49:58 - snacks served before hot meal
00:59:33 - crossing back into Ontario over Lake Timiskaming
01:01:51 - Lake Temagami, Obabika River Provincial Park, and Ishpatina Ridge (highest point in Ontario); plus Camper Christina shoutout
01:14:32 - orange juice
01:19:03 - meal service
02:26:54 - crossing into Manitoba over Woodland Caribou Provincial Park
02:34:33 - flying over Lake Winnipeg near Gimli
02:59:18 - crossing into Saskatchewan
03:41:29 - crossing into Alberta
04:01:43 - flying directly over the city of Calgary
04:07:07 - gorgeous views of the Rockies at Elbow - Sheep Wildland Provincial Park, near Upper and Lower Kananaskis Lake
04:09:30 - crossing into British Columbia near Peter Lougheed Provincial Park
04:28:24 - descent announcement
04:31:03 - top of descent over Kelowna
04:43:59 - Harrison Lake and Long Island
04:45:17 - Chehalis Lake
04:48:16 - Stave Lake; flying directly over Golden Ears Provincial Park (where I've camped with a friend in 2023)
04:51:32 - Maple Ridge and the Fraser River
04:53:42 - Fleetwood, Surrey, with the Fraser Highway towards Langley visible
04:55:19 - North Delta Centre for the Arts, where I competed in a poetry slam in April 2024
04:55:55 - Annacis Island and the Alex Fraser Bridge
04:59:10 - landing on runway 26R with Bridgeport Station and McArthur Glen visible
05:01:01 - taxi to gate 49
05:06:19 - parking at gate 49
05:07:41 - engine shutdown
05:08:17 - Flightradar24 profiles of our flight