Holiday Pass

To recognize frontline / operational employees working on Christmas Day and/or New Year’s Day, a one-time pass for each day worked will be assigned for the employee (as listed in the eligibility section below), their spouse and dependent child(ren) as listed on their profile.
The passes are space available and upgradeable to business class if available at the time of departure.

Scope & Eligibility

Applies to employees of Air Canada (AC) and AC Rouge, as well as their registered spouse, common-law partner, and dependent children.  

Employees may travel with their spouse/common-law OR a companion. NOT BOTH.

If an employee travels with an accompanied companion, they forfeit the spouse’s allocation.  The spouse may not travel with the employee or at any other time using the Holiday Pass.

* Accompanied companion (or spouse if applicable) ↵

Rules & Limitations

The allotment(s) will be manually added to the employee’s travel profile in early to mid-January after the yearly refresh.

We want you to enjoy your JSA passes, which is why you should review the information below. It explains how the passes work, when you can use them, and who can enjoy them with you.

Rules

Married/common-law may travel with their accompanied dependent children and/or their spouse

Employees may travel with their spouse/common-law OR a companion. NOT BOTH.

If an employee travels with an accompanied companion, they forfeit the spouse’s allocation.  The spouse may not travel with the employee or at any other time using the Holiday Pass.

Only the employee may accompany one companion of choice (i.e. neither spouse nor child may accompany a companion).

Single employees may travel with one companion of choice and/or accompanied dependent children

Valid for travel on AC, AC Express carriers, AC Rouge.

All eligible passengers must travel on the same boarding priority.

Boarding priority is as per the employee’s travel profile (i.e. C1/J11)

Subject to applicable taxes/fees.

Limitations

Permitted to be carried into retirement for 2 years from retirement date.*

Not valid for travel on AC Vacations, Star Alliance, or other airlines.

Not valid for parents, non-dependent children, or travel partners.

Employees who wish to travel with parents, non-dependent children, or partners must list for the flight using C2/Y10 passes.

Not valid for replacement with a C2/Y10 pass in the event an upgrade to business class is not possible at the gate.

* Employees who retired in 2020 or 2021 will be able to carry into retirement until 31 December 2023. ↵

Billing & Allotments

Billing occurs as detailed in the billing section of the travel passes page.

Billing will occur once ANY ONE of the following has taken place

  1. 30 days have elapsed since the travel began, or
  2. Eight (8) sectors of travel have been completed, or
  3. Passenger has returned to point of origin,

The Holiday pass is not a stand-alone pass. It will not be billed/deducted from the allotment separately from other pass types that are used on the same trip.

Example 1

  1. An employee travels from Montreal to LHR on a C2/Y10 pass to pick up a travel partner.
  2. They both travel back to Montreal on a Holiday Pass
  3. 2 weeks later they both travel back to LHR on a Holiday Pass
  4. The employee returns to Montreal on a C2/Y10 pass

This would be considered 2 trips and require 2 Holiday passes:

Employee billing

Trip 1:   YUL-LHR C2/Y10

              LHR-YUL C1/J11

Return to point of origin (YUL) – trip 1 complete

Trip 2:   YUL-LHR C1/J11

              LHR-YUL C2/Y10

Return to point of origin (YUL) – trip 1 complete

 

 

Partner billing

Trip 1:   LHR-YUL C1/J11

              YUL-LHR C1/J11

Return to point of origin (LHR) – trip complete

Downgrade

Anyone holding a Holiday Pass (SA) pass registration but is not accommodated in business class will not be provided another allotment for any reason.

This policy is subject to change without notice.
Last update: Jun 1, 2021