Air Canada will end four seasonal flights to the United States that typically run throughout the summer earlier this year, in a new cutback that follows previous suspensions announced in April.
The airline did not answer a question on the reason behind the decision to cut short the routes from major Canadian cities, including two from Toronto and one each from Montreal and Vancouver.
In April, Air Canada previously announced the suspension of seven domestic and international routes, saying it made the decision after determining the routes were no longer meeting profitability targets, with the ongoing war in the Middle East having more than doubled the price of fuel since the United States attacked Iran at the end of February.
The additional routes now set to be affected by suspensions are “summer seasonal flights” and will “end earlier that previously planned this year, before resuming in summer 2027,” the airline said in an email to the Star.
The carrier will halt the flight from Toronto to Sacramento on Aug. 1, and the Toronto to Charleston flight on Sept. 6. The flight from Montreal to Austin will end on Sept. 7, and the flight from Vancouver to Raleigh will end on July 29.
Air Canada’s announcement in April that suspended seven regular routes, including two connections to New York City and a now-shelved launch of a flight from Montreal to Guadalajara, accounted for around one per cent of the airline’s planned capacity, the carrier said in a statement online.
