By Sumayya
Air Canada has confirmed its plans to stop flying four specific routes to destinations in the United States.
In an email shared with CTVNews.ca on Thursday, the airline stated that starting next summer, it will no longer fly between:
- Vancouver and Nashville, Tennessee
- Vancouver and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
- Toronto and Charleston, South Carolina
- Montreal and Seattle, Washington
“Air Canada regularly reviews its schedule to ensure capacity is aligned with customer demand and travel patterns,” Air Canada spokesperson Sean Davidson said in an email.
This news comes at a time when travel between Canada and the United States has dropped heavily in recent years. Even though there was a steady rise in cross-border travel over the summer, trips by Canadian residents returning from the U.S. in July were 25.6 percent lower than their level in July 2024. Meanwhile, U.S. residents flew to Canada 701,800 times in August, according to information from StatCan (Statistics Canada).
Davidson added that Air Canada will keep flying to Nashville, Raleigh-Durham, and Seattle from other Canadian airports. However, he did not say anything about keeping up ongoing service to Charleston.
Expanding service to the U.S.
The company shared last week that it would start brand new routes between Toronto and Louisville, Kentucky; Montreal and Indianapolis, Indiana; as well as Edmonton and Newark, New Jersey, to serve summer travelers in 2027.
“We’ll also increase capacity between Edmonton and San Francisco by deploying a larger Airbus A220 on the route,” Davidson told CTVNews.ca.
Through a shared effort between Air Canada and United Airlines, several seasonal flight routes from the U.S. to Canada will open up next summer.
Those routes include flights from Denver to Ottawa and Quebec City, seasonal service to St. John’s from Newark, expanded service between Washington, D.C. and Quebec City, along with more expansion to the service running between Denver and Winnipeg.
