Over half of all passengers flying between Scotland and North America flew indirectly last year, a proportion common in most years. It will not be much different this summer, with Cirium schedules information data indicating that available non-stop seats are still a quarter lower than they were at their peak in S17. In a reversal […]
March 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
WestJet celebrated its 27th birthday at the end of February having taken to the sky on 29 February 1996 (yes, a leap day!). The carrier has undertaken a huge network transformation. Most recently, it ended all long-haul routes except from Calgary, its original and biggest airport – a real retreat-to-core. Over the past few years, […]
March 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Canadian North introduced a new domestic service on 14 February connecting Calgary and Yellowknife (IATA code YZF). The 1,260-kilometre journey is maintained daily by the carrier’s B737-300 aircraft. It competes directly against WestJet, which operates a 9-weekly service between the two cities through its regional feeder WestJet Encore and its Q400 turboprop aircraft. What they […]
February 15, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) has launched its first international service. The Canadian ULCC began 4-weekly service between Toronto YYZ and Orlando MCO on Friday 27 January. Its other days of operation on the 1,700-kilometre route are Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays. The inaugural flight was operated by one of the airline’s 189-seat 737 MAX 8s […]
January 31, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Icelandic carrier PLAY has announced its first destination in Canada, Hamilton. The airport is 85 kilometres from central Toronto and 115 kilometres from Buffalo, New York. It is also the closest Canadian airport to Niagara Falls and is nearer to other big Ontario cities, like London and Kitchener, than Toronto YYZ. Keflavik-Hamilton will operate daily […]
January 18, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Swoop continues to grow its international network from Canada. On 11 January the lower-cost subsidiary of WestJet began weekly (Wednesday) service from Hamilton to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. The 2,935-kilometre route is also served weekly by both Air Transat and Sunwing Airlines. Swoop plans to fly the route year-round with its 737-800s. This […]
January 16, 2023 | Latest Route News +
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Renowned for winter warmth, Cuba is Canada’s second largest winter sun market behind Mexico. With 3,326 non-stop one-way flights in winter 2022, Cuba is only one-third the size of the Mexico market (9,557 flights) but slightly larger than the Dominican Republic (3,058). However, with 12% fewer flights than in winter 2019, Canada-Cuba hasn’t fully recovered […]
January 3, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Located just 100 kilometres from the border with Mexico, Tucson is the second biggest city in Arizona (after Phoenix) with a population of over 500,000. The airport serving the city is located around 13 kilometres south of the city centre and is a joint civil-military facility. Between 2009 and 2019 annual passenger numbers had been […]
December 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Last week saw Air Canada launch service between Vancouver and Bangkok, making it currently the only non-stop service between anywhere in North America and the Thai capital. The 11,820-kilometre route will be served 4-weekly by the Star Alliance carrier using its 787-9s. A few days later, local rival WestJet revealed that it plans to launch […]
December 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air travel demand in Canada has been much slower to recover than in either Mexico or the US. During the first COVID summer of 2020, passenger numbers were only at around 15% of pre-pandemic levels as the government introduced extreme restrictions, not just on international travel but also domestic travel. Things only really began to […]
October 17, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
While the pandemic pummeled global aviation and hospitality industries for more than two years, Atlantic Canada’s unique approach in maintaining low levels of COVID-19 earned a reputation for the region as being a safe haven. As a result, the region experienced record population growth. Atlantic Canada’s population soared over a 12-month period from July 2021 […]
October 14, 2022 | Air Service Event News