Abstract
- Air Canada will resume Toronto to Charleston after greater than a fifth of a century.
- It’s going to function day by day utilizing the Embraer E175 and will probably be one of many provider’s 47 US locations from Toronto.
- Air Canada’s whole US community for summer time 2023 includes 52 locations in 32 states – for now.
Air Canada is returning to Charleston. It means the South Carolina airport will achieve its solely worldwide route after British Airways ceased flying there in October 2019. With Charleston taking off subsequent spring, Air Canada could have continuous passenger flights to 52 US airports. Whereas extra could also be coming, it’s nonetheless down from 55 in summer time 2019, the final regular summer time earlier than the disaster.
Toronto to Charleston is coming
Leaving Canada on March twenty eighth, 2024, simply earlier than airways within the Northern Hemisphere change to summer time schedules, the 744-mile (1,197 km) route will function day by day. Reserving knowledge exhibits Charleston was Toronto’s 14th largest unserved US mainland market by point-to-point passengers in July 2023.
Utilizing Air Canada Categorical’ 76-seat, two-class Embraer E175s, it’s scheduled as follows, with all instances native. Discover the practically 10 hours on the bottom from crew overnighting and just one set of crew. It’s going to additionally allow connectivity over Toronto throughout Canada and Europe, a market of ~17,000 passengers in July (~550 day by day), though many main European locations don’t have overly fast connection instances.
- Toronto to Charleston: AC8629, 18:20-20:38 (2h 18m)
- Charleston to Toronto: AC8628, 10:30-12:41 (2h 21m)
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Evaluation of US DOT T-100 knowledge exhibits that Air Canada final served Charleston between July 2001 and January 2003 – a really fateful and closely impacted interval – when the CRJ100 was used. It carried about 19,000 roundtrip passengers with a mean 44% seat load issue, clearly partly due to fallout from the terrorist assaults.
52 US locations subsequent summer time
As of September twenty ninth and topic to alter, Cirium exhibits that Air Canada’s summer time 2023 US community includes 52 locations in 32 states, together with the US territory of Puerto Rico. This consists of providers operated by Categorical and Rouge.
There are 112 routes subsequent April-August, as proven on the map beneath. They embrace different additions, equivalent to Montreal-Austin, which is able to begin in Might 2024. In all, there will probably be an common of 211 day by day departing flights (double for each methods), which takes account of fewer providers in spring and extra within the peak summer time, particularly from East Coast hubs.
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Whereas practically 97% of transborder flights will go from Air Canada’s main hubs of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, seven Canadian airports could have them, as proven beneath. Toronto will probably be linked to 47 of the 52 locations served within the US. The exceptions are Anchorage, Honolulu, Kona, Kahului, and Orange County.
|
Air Canada’s transborder flights from… |
US locations* |
Change vs. 2019** |
|---|---|---|
|
Toronto |
47 |
-4 |
|
Montreal |
32 |
+7 |
|
Vancouver |
22 |
+4 |
|
Ottawa |
1 |
-1 |
|
Halifax |
4 |
0 |
|
Calgary |
1 |
-8 |
|
Edmonton |
1 |
-1 |
|
* Anytime from April-August 2024 |
** April-August 2019 |
Eight US airports stay unserved
Evaluating Air Canada’s US community in April-August 2024 with 2019 exhibits that Jacksonville, Memphis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Windfall, San Antonio, San Jose, and Savannah not see the provider.
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Sources of knowledge: OAG, Cirium, Air Canada’s web site, reserving knowledge
