air canada shares rose in early trading on friday after reporting betterthanexpected results in its fourth quarter at 1000 am et shares were up 35 at c2549 the canadian airline said that loss per share narrowed to 138 canadian dollars the equivalent of us109 while analysts expected a loss of c140 revenue rose to c273 billion higher than the c242 billion expected by analysts the company continues to see recovery in its operations with available seat miles a measure of its operating capacity rising to 1406 billion from 6 billion while passenger revenues per available seat mile rose to c0145 from c0079