In what year did Air Canada launch its website, www.aircanada.com?
I believe it was 1996 or 1997.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 13 May 2005 14:39 PDT

Hi flyguy123,

Does this answer your question?

From the Whois website:

Registrant:
Air Canada
Air Canada Centre
7373 Cote Vertu Road West, Gate 11
St-Laurent,Quebec H4S 1Z3
CA

Domain Name: aircanada.com
Created on: 2001-02-14
Expires on: 2007-02-14

http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/results.jhtml;jsessionid=DICDYYPTPKOHICWMEAPSFFA?whoistoken=0&_requestid=112685

Waiting to hear your views.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by flyguy123-ga on 13 May 2005 15:36 PDT

I don't think so.  I was buying travel online for them at least in the
late 1990's, the domain registration of aircanada.com must have been a
renewal.

June of 1995.


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Canada NewsWire

June 2, 1995
AIR CANADA TAKES OFF INTO CYBERSPACE WITH INTERNET & COMPUSERVE ADDRESSES

...Air Canada is now accessible online through the Internet and
CompuServe networks. Users will now have easy access to a wide variety
of news including: Aeroplan membership information, the complete Air
Canada schedule and up-to-the-minute information on new services and
alliances...

...Users can connect to the Air Canada site on the Internet by typing
http://www.aircanada.ca. To access the CompuServe forum, members can
type GO AIRCANADA.
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Let me know if you need any additional information here.

pafalafa-ga


search strategy -- searched international news databases for [ www.aircanada ]

Try the WayBackMachine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aircanada.ca

The first listing is on October 29, 1996, but the website was around before this.

Here is how it looked in 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961029011632/http://www.aircanada.ca/

Your answer isn't here but you might find this interesting.

http://flyaow.de/aowdead.htm
Former airline websites