AIR CANADA ANNOUNCES PRICING OF PRIVATE OFFERING OF ENHANCEDAir Canada has priced its previously announced private offering of three tranches of enhanced equipment trust certificates. The three tranches of certificates have a combined aggregate face amount of $1,031,390,000 (U.S.) and a weighted average interest rate of 3.81 per cent. The private offering comprises Class A certificates, Class B certificates and Class C certificates: ##$667.37-million (U.S.) of 3.6-per-cent Air Canada pass-through certificates, Series 2015-1, Class A; ##$182.01-million (U.S.) of 3.875-per-cent Air Canada pass-through certificates, Series 2015-1, Class B; ##$182.01-million (U.S.) of 5-per-cent Air Canada pass-through certificates, Series 2015-1, Class C. The Class A certificates will have an interest rate of 3.6 per cent per annum and a final expected distribution date of March 15, 2027. The Class B certificates will have an interest rate of 3.875 per cent per annum and a final expected distribution date of March 15, 2023. The Class C certificates will have an interest rate of 5 per cent per annum and a final expected distribution date of March 15, 2020. Each class of certificates will represent an interest in a related pass-through trust. The trusts will use the proceeds from the offering to acquire equipment notes to be issued by Air Canada, and secured by one Boeing 787-8 aircraft delivered in January, 2015, and eight new Boeing 787-9 aircraft, which are currently scheduled for delivery from July, 2015, to March, 2016. The security interest in each of the aircraft will benefit from the protections of the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, as enacted in Canada. Air Canada will use the proceeds from the sale of equipment notes related to the Boeing 787-8 aircraft currently owned by Air Canada for general corporate purposes, and to pay fees and expenses related to the offering, and will use the proceeds from the sale of the other equipment notes to finance the acquisition of the eight new Boeing 787-9 aircraft. The offering is expected to close on March 25, 2015, subject to customary closing conditions. The certificates will not be qualified for sale to the public under applicable Canadian securities laws, and, accordingly, any offer and sale of the certificates in Canada will be made on a basis that is exempt from the prospectus requirement of such securities laws.