When Captain Piché is at the door of the aircraft following the emergency landing, a small sign above him indicates the country and the registration of the aircraft: "Canada C-CGTS". The registration of the actual aircraft involved in the incident was C-GITS.
In the film, the Airbus A300 has white painted engines. However, the actual aircraft involved in the accident (even confirmed by an Associate Press file photo on the newspaper in the film) shows that the real aircraft had blue painted engines.
On numerous places (office walls, scale models, uniforms, passenger safety video, etc.), the new Air Transat logo adopted in 2005 is visible in scenes set prior to that date.
A scene set in 2001 shows a cereal box with an Aeroplan logo that was introduced in 2005. Furthermore, the offer in question (earning miles by buying Quaker cereal) was introduced in 2007.
In a scene set in 1980, Billy Idol's "Mony Mony" is playing in a bar where a young Piche is partying. Idol's version of this song was not released until 1981.