Air Canada has introduced an enormous capability increase coming to its community within the Summer time of 2024. This capability increase contains two brand-new locations, 5 new routes, and elevated flight frequencies. Let us take a look at new locations and routes on the playing cards for Air Canada for this upcoming summer time season.

The Rise of Tulum

Air Canada will turn into the primary Canadian airline to announce service to Mexico’s latest airport: Tulum. Tulum’s new worldwide airport formally opened on December 1, 2023, and presently serves home flights. Nonetheless, Tulum Worldwide Airport (TQO) has been formally permitted for worldwide flights. As such, the airport will obtain many new worldwide companies from March via Might 2024.

As Mexico is a well-liked vacationer and trip vacation spot for People and Canadians, all of those new worldwide companies will likely be from North American airways. Air Canada, American Airways, Delta Air Traces, United Airways, JetBlue, and Spirit Airways have all introduced new companies to Tulum. Air Canada will serve Tulum from its Montréal-Trudeau (YUL) and Toronto-Pearson (YYZ) hubs. 

Service from Toronto begins on Might 3, 2024, whereas Montréal service will likely be inaugurated the next day. Toronto-Tulum will function twice weekly on Fridays and Saturdays with the Airbus A321. Montréal – Tulum will function on Saturdays solely with an A321 as effectively. Not like the Toronto flight, Air Canada’s web site lists the Montréal route as being operated by Rouge, Air Canada’s low-cost and leisure subsidiary.

Tulum’s new airport will facilitate journey to the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula and Riviera Maya. Beforehand, Cancún’s Worldwide Airport served the brunt of vacationers to this area along with Cozumel Worldwide Airport. Nonetheless, congestion in Cancún necessitated the development of Tulum’s new airport.

Elevated U.S. Community

Air Canada’s second new vacation spot is Charleston, South Carolina (CHS). Service from Toronto (YYZ) begins on March 28 and can run every day with Air Canada Specific Embraer 175s. That is the third occasion that Charleston will maintain nonstop service to Canada and Toronto specifically.

Air Canada briefly served the Toronto – Charleston route in 2001 however lower the route shortly after the occasions of September 11. Porter Airways operated a short-lived service between Toronto-Billy Bishop (YTZ) and Charleston in 2015.

The brand new Air Canada service will likely be Charleston’s solely present worldwide route. The airport most just lately had British Airways 787 service to London Heathrow (LHR), however the route by no means resumed after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Air Canada will add extra flights to its present U.S. locations of Austin, Texas (AUS) and St. Louis, Missouri (STL). Each cities are presently served by the airline from Toronto. Beginning in Might, Austin and St. Louis may even obtain Air Canada flights from its Montréal hub. Day by day service from Montréal to St. Louis begins on Might 1 with the CRJ-900. The subsequent day, Might 2, a four-weekly service from Montréal to Austin will begin with the Airbus A220-300.

The Montréal-Austin route will function on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The plane will stay in a single day in Austin earlier than working the return leg the next morning. This implies the Austin – Montréal route will likely be served on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Boosted Frequencies

The Summer time of 2024 may even see elevated frequencies on a variety of present Air Canada routes. Sure seasonal routes from Air Canada hubs throughout Canada will resume earlier within the 12 months. These routes embody flights to the US and home flights inside Canada.

In the summertime of 2024, Air Canada will serve 120 locations throughout Canada, the US, and the Caribbean. These locations will account for as much as 520 every day flights with round 66,000 seats. That is a roughly 5% improve in Air Canada’s North American and Caribbean seat capability from summer time 2023.

This new announcement from Air Canada reveals that journey continues to be in full swing. It additionally reveals that demand for journey in the course of the summer time will proceed to be a market that airways will flock to serve.