Air Canada will add four new routes to the United States and three domestic routes from three Canadian hubs for the summer season, the carrier announced Tuesday. It also will restore 41 North American routes.
With these new and restored routes, Air Canada will operate to 51 Canadian and 46 U.S. airports this summer.
The new U.S. routes include twice-daily flights from Montreal each to Atlanta and Detroit beginning June 1. That same day flights will commence between Vancouver and Austin, Texas, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The fourth new U.S. route, from Toronto to Salt Lake City, begins June 2 on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Domestically, on May 1 Air Canada will add daily flights from Calgary to Fort. St. John and four flights per week from Vancouver to Halifax. The third addition is a daily flight between Montreal and Gander operating daily starting June 25.
The 41 restored North American routes will include 13 from Toronto, nine form Montreal, five from Ottawa, five from Vancouver, four from Calgary, three from Halifax and two from Edmonton.
Global Route Restoration
In addition to the North American service announcement, Air Canada beginning March 1 and through June 17 will relaunch 34 routes to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Eleven routes will include year-round service, with the remainder seasonal.
European service will include flights from Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver to Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Nice, Paris, Reykjavik, Rome, Venice, Vienna and Zurich. Year-round service from Halifax to London Heathrow will begin April 30.
Additional resumed destinations from Toronto or Montreal will include Algiers, Cairo, Casablanca, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.