Air Canada does have direct wide-body service between Vancouver and Sydney, Australia. I'm sure that by now, you must have a bridge somewhere between Australia and New Zealand... heck, it's been over 200 years since those two countries got colonized.

Where is the bridge from Scotland to Europe?
Or Italy to Africa .. etc?

There's a tunnel to Britain... Unless you own a bloody train it's ****ing useless!!!

This is the answer I got from Air Canada Cargo today on the inquiry for an offer from Europe to North America:
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Good day Claudio,

Thank you for your interest in our Bike promotion.

Unfortunately, The Fly your Bike promotion only applies for reservations originating from North America at the present time. I'm including our Promotion package anyway for your information in case you may want to use our services in North America.

Best Regards,

Serge
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That's very unfortunate... will have to look around for other options.


Greets

Claudio

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Funny that as last week they sent me an email showing capital cities they ship to and from europe to canada.....?

Or am I reading what your saying wrong?

hi everyone!

email AC back and forth and get to the point where price is whit all their charges for the bike approximately 250 kg, (will be weight in prior loading) around 900 cad.

but that DANGEROUS GOODS DECLARATION , which i have been advised to contact james cargo for it, will cost 400 pounds. that was quick quote from the James Cargo guy via phone, 3 hours ago..

and they advise me to fly day later to give them enough time to clear the bike, which is additional cost as bike will stay for a day at the depo, so all together doesn't relay look as a good deal.

flights whit Air Canada are couple hundreds pounds different than skyscanner cheapest, so no much of wining there either...

i know that we can't go free over the pond, but those deals are always kinda more expensive and more hustle than strait to shipping companies...

Look around for another organization to help you fill out the DGR paperwork. Jeepers, it's nothing more than a one-page form on which you declare that the item being shipped is a "vehicle, flammable liquid powered", and you fill in the correct classification for it, and then sign the bottom declaring that you have packaged it in accordance with the packing instructions provided in the DGR book.

That an organization would charge you £400 to do this is outrageous. The DGR explicitly forbids the air carriers from filling out the form on behalf of the shipper (there are good safety reasons behind this rule), but, heck, all that one needs to do is read the appropriate sections of the IATA DGR book, make sure you comply, then fill out the form.

Michael

Im currently unable to give the company name but if you r willing to go to the iom tt they have great rate to nz , a few more than from oz

I'm in the States and have been corresponding with Patricia Mele at AC (contact info was given earlier in thread). She was able to send me specific requirements, then turned me over to the folks in Calgary (since that's my nearest point of departure). Patricia was quite helpful. I was looking at Calgary to Frankfurt.

I got an email from them (really just a forwarded message from other like minded inquiries) and told to "see below" for info. I did call the Calgary agent and he confirmed the quote below.

I was given a quote of $950 for the bike ONLY- ONLY IF I have an AC passenger ticket booked when I called to get the cargo ticket. Without an accompanying AC passenger ticket the cost was $1200. And these were both prices without DG paperwork. I have not looked into passenger ticket cost yet. So $250 difference. I still do not know if 950 or 1200 is a good deal compared with other routes/options.

I was given a contact in Calgary that may be able to help with the DG paperwork.

I'm not sure its really worth it, as I'd have a few days travel involved on either end to fly out of Calgary. If I lived closer to one of the hubs (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto...etc) it would probably be a nice incentive.

I was hoping this might turn into the year of Iceland/FI and beyond, and it still could be, but this really hadn't panned out. Still looking for other options. Waiting on quote from EIMSKIP (sea and air quotes) from Denver and also contacted MotoFreight in UK, but have not heard back.

We'll see what happens!

Smyril has there "bike goes for free" program going on selected sailings with conditions BTW....was hoping to combine some of these specials!

Had to change my destination from Spain to Frankfurt Germany to make this offer work, but is well worth it. Processing DG paperwork now and will book flight as soon as I get copy of that. Then it is Morocco here I come. One for the guy that posted this info. Had planned on storing bike somewhere in Europe but at this price if I could book round trip it is worth considering.
We all need to make sure to let Air Canada know we appreciate the good rates so they might continue and expand offerings.
Just wanted to let all know the good rates are continuing, you just can not be too picky about where you fly in to.
Bob

The pdf brochure I got from Air Canada Cargo 2 weeks ago says the promotional prices will end Sept 30, 2015.