by Jen Mallia
Last updated: 12:00 PM ET, Thu June 4, 2026
The Signature Plus suites that are a feature of business class on Air Canada’s new Boeing 787-10 aircraft may also be coming to its existing 777 and Dreamliner fleets.
In Australia this week to celebrate 10 years of the Vancouver-Sydney route, Kiyo Weiss, Air Canada’s Senior Director of Sales, Asia Pacific told assembled media “Our 777 and 787 aircraft will be refurbished, but it will not happen until 2029, so the existing markets with those services will have to wait for a little bit.” reports Executive Traveller.
It’s part of the “Glowing Hearted” cabin redesign Air Canada is undergoing. The fleetwide retrofit is the most significant cabin upgrade the airline has undergone.
“This investment is about fundamentally redefining the experience of flying with Air Canada. From the moment of stepping on board, we’re setting a new standard for how Canadians and the world connect with our brand,” said Mark Nasr, Executive Vice President & Chief Operations Officer at Air Canada.
The suites will include longer beds, more storage, and sliding privacy panels, with some configurations allowing passengers to sit together during the flight in a companion seat, or by putting down the privacy dividers and having a four seat/quad “social arrangement.”
Air Canada Signature Plus seating (Photo Credit: Air Canada)
According to Simple Flying, with the first aircraft to be retrofitted with the new cabin not expected to enter commercial service until 2029, any routes currently served by the existing 777s and the Dreamliner aircraft will not be seeing these brand-new cabins for at least the next three years before the retrofit is rolled out.
Once the upgrades roll out, the airline expects the Glowing Hearted redesign and the introduction of the Signature Plus upgrades to “fundamentally redefine the experience of flying with Air Canada.” as well as “setting a new standard for how Canadians and the world connect with our brand.”
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