Eventually, I left the lounge and headed to the gate, where Air Canada 777-300ER rego C-FKAU was being readied for departure as AC311 YUL-YVR.
This 7 year old aircraft was still wearing the old light blue AC livery...

The flight looked to be 100% full, and the smallish boarding area was crammed with multiple lines of pax. Boarding was by zone, and because of the congested space, it took a while for pax to organise themselves for boarding. But in typical laid back Canadian manner, no voices were raised and everything remained civilised, even if boarding took a fairly long time.
Thankfully, I boarded in zone 2, and so spent most of the long boarding process already seated in the Premium Economy cabin...

The PEY cabin on this 77W was laid out in 3 rows of 2-4-2.
The seats themselves were wide and comfortable, and looked to have a different headrest design from my earlier A330 PEY seat. Also, unlike the A330 seat, there were no calf rests on these seats.

There was ample legroom in the bulkhead row, which meant that I could get up from my first row window seat to get to the bathroom without interfering much with my aisle-seat neighbour.
From my seat, the familiar loud booming startup sequence from the GE90 engines as they came to life. It had been a while since I flew on a 77W, so this was music to my ears...
A view of Montreal's terminal building and control tower as we taxi'ed out.

Take off on Runway 24R...

A nice view of the terminal building as we climbed out...
This 7 year old aircraft was still wearing the old light blue AC livery...

The flight looked to be 100% full, and the smallish boarding area was crammed with multiple lines of pax. Boarding was by zone, and because of the congested space, it took a while for pax to organise themselves for boarding. But in typical laid back Canadian manner, no voices were raised and everything remained civilised, even if boarding took a fairly long time.
Thankfully, I boarded in zone 2, and so spent most of the long boarding process already seated in the Premium Economy cabin...

The PEY cabin on this 77W was laid out in 3 rows of 2-4-2.
The seats themselves were wide and comfortable, and looked to have a different headrest design from my earlier A330 PEY seat. Also, unlike the A330 seat, there were no calf rests on these seats.

There was ample legroom in the bulkhead row, which meant that I could get up from my first row window seat to get to the bathroom without interfering much with my aisle-seat neighbour.
From my seat, the familiar loud booming startup sequence from the GE90 engines as they came to life. It had been a while since I flew on a 77W, so this was music to my ears...
A view of Montreal's terminal building and control tower as we taxi'ed out.

Take off on Runway 24R...

A nice view of the terminal building as we climbed out...

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