Air Canada Makes Cuts or Postponements to Eight More U.S. Routes
by Bruce Parkinson
Canadian air travel to the U.S. remains well down from previous levels.
Lingering high fuel costs and weak demand for cross-border travel have spurred Air Canada to make more adjustments to its U.S. route map.
Eight transborder routes will either be cancelled or postponed, including flights from Montreal to Detroit and Minneapolis–Saint Paul and Toronto to Indianapolis. Originally scheduled to operate daily through the winter, those routes will be suspended on October 24.
Three seasonal Florida routes — Ottawa to Fort Lauderdale, Montreal to Palm Beach and Quebec City to Orlando — will now launch in December instead of October.
The airline has also officially dropped routes from Toronto and Montreal to New York JFK, after suspending those flight paths from June through October. The airline still offers strong connectivity to New York City through flights to LaGuardia and Newark.
“Air Canada regularly reviews its schedule to ensure capacity is aligned with customer demand and seasonal travel patterns,” spokesperson Angela Mah told the Canadian Press.
While aviation fuel prices are on the decline following the cessation of conflict in Iran, prices are still significantly higher than a year ago. And Canadians continue to be hesitant about travel to the U.S. amidst soured political relations.
May figures from Statistics Canada showed that Canadians returning by air from the U.S. was down 28% year-over-year in May.
