Since 2022, Air Canada has operated between Vancouver and Bangkok from December to March. This is currently the first and only direct service between Thailand and North America since the retirement of Thai Airways’s A340-500 fleet, which served New York-JFK and Los Angeles, the latter of which saw service continue until 2015 with a technical stop at Tokyo-Narita.
Server: Solo
Airline: Air Canada
Aircraft: Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
Origin: Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand (BKK)
Destination: Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver, Canada (YVR)
Flight Number: AC66
Route: VTBS-CYVR
Seat: 14K (Premium Economy)
Time En Route: 13 Hours 39 Minutes
Standing in line to board at BKK. While Suvarnabhumi is well within the range of Air Canada’s 777-200LR fleet, there are neither enough airframes in the fleet nor enough demand to justify deploying the bigger Boeing on the YVR-BKK route.
Pushing back while watching the pre-flight safety video in Premium Economy
At the hold short line
Bye-bye, Bangkok!
Feet wet over the South China Sea, near Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
Looking down at Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO/RJGG), the primary International airport serving the Japanese city of Nagoya, from 35,000 feet
Crossing Kodiak Island, Alaska
Descending over the mountains of British Columbia, north of Vancouver
Morning arrival at YVR
Parked at Gate D74 at the International Terminal