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Air Canada The History explores a modern miracle that has made commercial air travel in our country an everyday occurrence The airline was born in 1937 as Trans Canada Airlines a ward of the Canadian National Railway Renamed Air Canada in 1964 to reflect its status as a jet age airline it survived devastating air crashes financial deficits self serving politicians strikes privatization and the Airbus scandal It was reviled in the nineties by the likes of Peter Newman who joked If God had meant Man to fly he wouldn t have invented Air Canada Today it is a much loved national icon Fortunate at times to be run by great CEOs like Gordon McGregor and Claude Taylor Air Canada has fought off a hostile takeover merged with its arch rival Canadian Airlines and touched countless lives during its 75 year history This is its story Air Canada The History