Aspire Air Canada Café
Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ)
Toronto City Aspire Air Canada Café
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Welcome to our award winning Aspire Toronto City Air Canada Cafe. We have been voted the best Canadian Domestic Airport Lounge by the World Luxury Travel Awards.
Our Aspire Air Canada Café promises you superior levels of comfort, service, and chic, contemporary style unlike any other domestic airport lounge in Canada. You will enjoy superb levels of comfort, fantastic preflight facilities and fabulous food, ensuring your stay with us is a memorable one.
Aspire Toronto City has been designed to suit the needs of all travellers, with a combination of furniture settings offering seated café-style dining, stylish and comfortable individual lounge seating, and business facilities for Aspire travellers that need to get work done.
You will find our Aspire Toronto City Air Canada Café has everything you need to put you at ease and keep you completely relaxed before you fly.
Work or simply relax with Aspire, your pre-flight time has never been this good.
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Area
Domestic flights only
Domestic flights only
Please note: This lounge is for domestic flights only
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Duration
Up to 3 hours
The duration of the booking prior to your 'Standard Time of Departure'.
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Opening Hours
Transport Canada data shows that around 33% of flights were delayed in 2024, which is consistent with previous years of flight delay data in Canada.
Book directly with us and you will automatically receive our Aspire guaranteed delay cover. If your flight is delayed you can stay in our Aspire Toronto City Lounge for no additional charge, you keep relaxing in complete comfort until your flight is ready to go.
Keeping you comfortable is what we do.
The Aspire Toronto City lounge is designed to maximise your pre-flight comfort and productivity. With its contemporary décor and a variety of stylish furniture settings for working, dining or simply relaxing, our Toronto City lounge creates an ambiance that will leave you feeling both relaxed and refreshed before you fly.
So come, spend your time with us, and enjoy unlimited access to our high-speed WiFi network, freshly prepared, high quality food and the refined comfort of our Aspire Toronto City Air Canada Lounge.
Effortless travel is our priority.
Our Aspire Toronto City lounge team is dedicated to providing Aspire travellers with inviting, seasonal based menus, freshly prepared in-house for you by our skilled kitchen team. All guests can dine in complete comfort too. Whether you are travelling individually, in a small group, or as a family, you will be welcomed by the Aspire Toronto City team.
Amenities
Aspire Airport Lounges strive to make your journey effortless and stress free. Our Aspire Toronto City Air Canada lounge is designed to deliver the most comfortable pre-flight experience available and let you be highly productive too.
Choose from our six person meeting rooms to collaborate with colleagues or our one person workstation for working privately, or simply unwind and relax in our stylish lounge chairs while enjoying unlimited access to our high speed WiFi.
We’ve created the right space for you, right before you travel.
Free, Super Fast WiFi
Charging Points
Complimentary Food & Drinks
Major Card Schemes Accepted
Guaranteed Flight Delay Cover
Free Cancellations and Amends
Complimentary Media
Restrooms Available
Business Facilities
Aspire Food & Drink
Aspire Lounge teams are serious about good food and great service. Our Aspire Toronto City team prepare your meals in our kitchen daily and your food is plated for you, making your life easier. Our in-house mixologist will serve you the Aspire Toronto City signature cocktail or choose from our carefully selected range of local Ontario beers.
Best of all, our kitchen bakes fresh every day, serving delightful Danish pastries, flaky French croissants and our delicious signature oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies.
Directions
We Are Only 1 to 2 Minutes From All Domestic Gates
Pass through Security and take the escalator down to the passenger terminal departure gates. From the bottom of the escalator, turn right and you will find the Aspire Toronto City Air Canada Café is situated ahead of you between Door A and the passenger terminal Restrooms.
Aspire Toronto Air Canada Café Highlights
We pride ourselves on providing Aspire travellers with freshly prepared meals and delicious, freshly baked, pastries and cookies. We strive to create an interesting food and drink experience for Aspire travellers by changing our menus seasonally. This means return visitors can enjoy something different across the year when they spend time with us.
With superb business facilities and seriously comfortable seating options for dining or simply relaxing, our Aspire Toronto City lounge has been designed to make sure you can optimise your time with us, doing exactly what you need to before you fly.
Loved by our Aspire Toronto City Lounge guests:
- Inviting, stylish central drink’s bar
- Freshly baked Danish pastries and croissants
- Freshly baked, signature oatmeal and choc chip cookies
- Complimentary signature cocktail from our in-house Mixologist
- A pre-bookable business meeting room for 6 guests
- Plated meals, prepared fresh by friendly staff
Our Aspire Toronto City Airport Lounge Reservations Fill Quickly, So Please Book Early to Avoid Disappointment
Attentive Customer Care
Our Aspire Toronto customer service team is focused on making your stay in an Aspire Airport Lounge an outstanding one.
Our Aspire Lounge team will put your needs first so you can spend your preflight time doing what you need to, whether you are working before you fly, or looking for a quiet space to simply relax.
We love to help and we want you to be comfortable too, so always ask our Aspire Toronto City lounge team how we can make your stay even better.
If you need any help with information about Toronto or Toronto Airport, please check in with our Toronto Aspire Lounge team and they will do their best to help you.
Start relaxing now with Aspire.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes, you can. But you must bring a few things with you to gain access.
If you’ve reserved a place at our Aspire Toronto City Air Canada Airport Lounge and you are currently a Dragonpass Holder, Priority Pass Holder or some other bank cardholder scheme, you will be asked to present your card in addition to your confirmation upon arrival at the airport lounge.
Anyone who fails to provide a valid lounge access card will, unfortunately, be denied entry to the Aspire Toronto City lounge.
If you have reserved for more than one person, but do not have enough credits on your card for this on the day, you will be asked to pay the walk-up price at the lounge or you will be denied entry.
Please note, you must still reserve your place in our Aspire Airport Lounges as a Dragonpass Holder, Priority Pass Holder or a similar Airport lounge bank card scheme due to each lounge having a mandated person capacity.
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We offer all travellers in our Aspire Toronto City lounge a range of carefully curated, freshly prepared meals. Our Aspire Toronto City team works hard to create variety for our guests, and our menus always rotate seasonally to ensure that Aspire travellers that return to us can enjoy something different over the course of the year.
Our skilled kitchen team freshly prepares our meals in-house, and we have a dedicated Mixologist ready to serve you our signature Aspire Toronto City cocktail from our stylish central bar.
Of course, we serve fresh Danish pastries and croissants alongside an internationally recognised brand of coffee to compliment your pastry choice. Our freshly baked, signature oatmeal and choc chip cookies are very popular with Aspire guests too and pair perfectly with hot tea or coffee.
A range of complimentary soft drinks, juices and alcoholic beverages are also available. Aspire Airport Lounges does operate a Fit2Fly policy which means we may remind you about alcohol consumption and your compliance required to safely board your flight.
Champagne, prosecco, cocktails and in specific locations premium food offerings are also available for an additional charge – please check with our Toronto airport lounge team for more information.
Please always report allergies or special dietary requirements to an Aspire Lounge Team member for advice or assistance.
We do cater for vegetarian and gluten-free guests but please note we do not specifically cater for kosher, dairy-free or halal dining requirements.
Please note that some of our food items are only available at selected times of the day and alcohol will not be served to under 18s. On occasion you may be asked politely for your proof of age in order to comply with licencing laws.
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We prioritise our Aspire Lounge locations to airport boarding gates for our travellers convenience. It makes the whole process of boarding your flight easier, and stress free so you can spend more time enjoying the superb amenities in our Aspire Toronto City airport lounge.
Pass through Security and take the escalator down to the passenger terminal departure gates. From the bottom of the escalator, turn right and you will find the Aspire Toronto City Air Canada Café is situated ahead of you between Door A and the passenger terminal restrooms.
We want your stay with us to be as relaxing and stress free as possible. If you are unsure of where you are in relation to the boarding gates, then please ask one of the Aspire Lounge team members to help you.
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Yes. We believe all travellers deserve a good meal, good food and a seriously comfortable seat.
We welcome all travellers and specifically design our Aspire Lounges to accommodate the needs of all types of travellers too.
In our Toronto City lounge you will find a space designed to be calming, comfortable and relaxing, with a range of different dining seating options to suit both individuals and small groups. We have superb facilities for working, including a six person meeting room as well as individual seating for travellers simply wishing to relax.
It doesn’t matter which airline you fly with or whether it is economy or first class, you are welcome in our Toronto Aspire Airport Lounge. You will need a valid boarding pass and simply agree to our terms and conditions of entry then start relaxing.
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Our standard ‘stay time’ in an Aspire Lounge is 3 hours duration prior to the scheduled departure time of your flight.
Take advantage of booking directly with us and you will automatically receive Aspire’s Guaranteed Delay Cover. This ensures you stay comfortable and stress free in our airport lounge without any additional charges until your flight is ready to board.
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Our aim is to create a relaxing and stress free environment for our Aspire Toronto City guests to enjoy before flying. Consequently, we do not make tannoy flight announcements in our airport lounges.
We do provide all the necessary boarding and flight information on our flight information screens located around our Aspire Toronto lounge or you can choose to track your flight information via our Aspire ‘in-lounge’ digital platform.
If in doubt, always ask an Aspire lounge team member for help or advice, and do remember to always leave enough time to get to your boarding gate from the Aspire Toronto City Air Canada Lounge.
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The Aspire Toronto City Airport Lounge does accept children but they must be accompanied by a guest with a legitimate lounge reservation.
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No. But restrooms are very close by - directly adjacent to the Aspire Toronto City lounge reception.