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

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 My Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalung1/ 787: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjYPEEKp Motivate Canada: upload coming soon! Motivate Canada recap video:    • Motivate Canada | 2025 ViaYouth Summit | a...   #AirCanada #FlyTheFlag #MotivateCanada ‪@aircanada‬ ‪@Boeing‬ ‪@MotivateCanadaVideo‬ Please respect video copyrights, and unauthorised reproductions of any videos on my channel are prohibited. Such content will be reported. Comments that are non-constructive, overly judgmental, or of a politically-charged nature, will not be tolerated. 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