Air Transat Airbus a310-300 landing in Dublin International Airport (DUB/EIDW).
On the 30th March 2020, Air Transat's last Airbus a310 touched down at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ/CYYZ) from Porto International Airport (OPO/LPPR). The flight TS765 was acting as a repatriation flight carrying Canadian citizens back home who were stranded due to travel restrictions.
Air Transat was already planning to end their service of their Airbus a310's on the 27th of April 2020 performing a return trip from Quebec to Paris. A colossal number of flights have been cancelled and travel restrictions have been placed upon the airline due to the coronavirus outbreak. Therefore, Air Transat decided the early retirement of their Airbus a310's making it its last passenger flight.
The airline have been carrying out numerous repatriation flights to countries around Central America. There are many more of these rescue flights planned to try get stranded Canadian citizens back home.
The first prototype of the Airbus a310 flew its maiden flight on the 3rd of April 1982. In 1999, Air Transat decided to make the a310 a new member of its fleet. Since then, they had been actively used for commercial transatlantic flights. The last flight was to help those stuck in Portugal due to the coronavirus.
The airline are replacing these ageing aircraft with the Airbus a321neoLR's. This eco-friendly aircraft burns 15% less fuel and lowers emissions of certain greenhouse gases by 50%. Air Transat have taken delivery of three of these aircrafts with plans to receive thirteen more in order to perform commercial transatlantic flights.
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