The community planners at Air Canada have been fairly busy the previous few weeks.

The Montreal-based provider introduced on Thursday a giant enlargement in transborder service that features 5 new routes, two new locations and extra frequencies on current routes.

All of this elevated service comes because the airline is gearing up for a blockbuster summer season season.

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2 new locations

Air Canada is including two new locations to its community: Tulum, Mexico, and Charleston.

The previous can be served as soon as weekly on Saturdays from Montreal beginning on Might 4, 2024, and twice weekly on Fridays and Sundays from Toronto, starting on Might 3, 2024.

These two new routes to Tulum can be operated on a year-round foundation.

Air Canada’s new flights to Charleston will kick off on March 28. The airline will provide once-daily service out there operated by its regional affiliate, Air Canada Categorical.

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Including flights to Tulum comes on the heels of the opening of the brand-new Tulum Worldwide Airport (TQO), which is poised to revolutionize how vacationers arrive at this Mexican hotspot.

Prior to now, attending to Tulum hasn’t essentially been straightforward.

One of the vital frequent methods to get there was to fly to Cancun after which drive to your resort or trip rental in Tulum. Cancun is already properly served by Air Canada — the airline flies there from eight locations throughout Canada — however the drive after touchdown hasn’t essentially been too interesting.

Personal transfers value round $100, including about 90 minutes or extra to the general journey journey.

Air Canada is not the one provider getting enthusiastic about Tulum’s new airport. Many main U.S. airways, together with American, Delta and United, have already introduced new service there, and I would not be stunned to see extra bulletins coming down the pike.

In the meantime, including flights to Charleston will profit Canadians in search of a well-liked East Coast vacation spot and Charlestonians who can go to Toronto and now have entry to a whole bunch of one-stop itineraries through Air Canada’s hub at Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ).

Different new routes

Air Canada can also be including new routes to 2 current U.S. gateways: Austin and St. Louis.

The provider already flies from Austin to Toronto and Vancouver, and now it will add year-round, four-times-weekly service to Montreal. This service commences on Might 2, 2024.

It’s going to additionally add new summer-seasonal service from St. Louis to Montreal on Might 1, 2024. This enhances the airline’s current flights from St. Louis to Toronto.

Boosting service to Austin comes as town has seen spectacular progress in air connectivity lately. A lot of that comes from American Airways, which lately scrapped a great chunk of its Austin routes, besides, Austin appears to be prime of thoughts for community planners throughout the continent.

That is not too stunning given the inflow of firms increasing or shifting their headquarters to town.

As for St. Louis, the extra worldwide service will little question really feel like a win to locals.

It comes after town’s St. Louis Lambert Worldwide Airport (STL) added new transatlantic service to Frankfurt on Lufthansa final yr, marking the primary time town has been related with nonstops to Europe in almost 20 years.

Extra flight frequencies

Along with the brand new routes and locations, the provider is boosting its North American community with the addition of recent frequencies and by resuming seasonal flights earlier.

A whopping whole of fifty current routes are getting upgraded, and you will discover the complete checklist within the desk beneath.

“We’re additionally more than happy to develop our North American community from coast to coast with extra frequencies in key markets together with Ottawa, Calgary, Saskatoon and Regina, in regional markets, and by resuming main seasonal routes earlier. By including scale to our Canadian hubs, we’re providing extra journey selections and unparalleled entry to and from our worldwide community,” mentioned Mark Galardo, govt vice chairman for income and community planning at Air Canada, in a press release.

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