Starting next summer, Air Canada will introduce three new routes to the United States including flights from Toronto and Montreal to New York’s Kennedy airport, along with a new route between Toronto and Sacramento. Air Canada will also restore 13 trans-border services and increase frequencies on multiple routes.
“Air Canada is very pleased to offer customers the most choice of any carrier flying to the U.S. for Summer 2023, where we will operate more than 400 daily flights on 95 routes to 47 destinations. We are getting an early start with new routes to JFK from both Toronto and Montreal beginning March 26, and Toronto-Sacramento in June. As well, we will restore previously suspended routes and increase frequencies on existing routes as we rebuild our transborder schedule,” said Mark Galardo, Senior Vice President of Network Planning and Revenue Management at Air Canada.
“Our U.S. summer schedule, which will complement our recently announced Canadian and international summer schedules, is designed to maximize connectivity within our network and offer the most seats on the most flights to the most destinations. Strengthened by our Transborder Joint Business Agreement with United Airlines, our schedule will also be attractive for sixth freedom global travelers flying internationally and strengthen our hub airports with more connection traffic.”
New Transborder Options
Air Canada will be the largest international airline serving the New York metropolitan area offering 39 daily flights offering more than 3,500 seats from six Canadian cities (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Halifax) to New York City’s three major airports.
New services to New York’s JFK will begin March 26, 2023, with double daily service from Toronto and daily service from Montreal. Flights will be operated by Air Canada Express using an Embraer E175 aircraft with 76 seats in a Business and Economy Class configuration.
New service between Toronto and Sacramento will begin June 1, 2023. Flights will be operated year-round, four days a week, by Air Canada using an Airbus A220-300 aircraft with 137 seats in a Business Class and Economy Class configuration.
In addition to the new Sacramento route starting in June, Air Canada’s Halifax-Newark, Montreal-Tampa, Vancouver-Miami, and Vancouver-Houston routes will become year-round options instead of seasonal services.
Transborder Flight Resumptions in 2023
Starting May 1, Air Canada will resume flights from Vancouver to Austin and Anchorage, Montreal to Nashville, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, Calgary to Los Angeles, and Toronto to Milwaukee. Flights between Montreal and Seattle will return on May 15 as well.
In June, four routes from Toronto will return. Flights to Harford and Salt Lake City will return June 1, along with Kansas City and Portland starting June 15. Flights between Vancouver and Boston will also resume on June 17.
Frequency Increases (transborder to the U.S.)
In addition to the new routes starting next summer, Air Canada will increase frequencies on multiple routes including Vancouver to Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, and Newark. Toronto to San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington’s Reagan National, Indianapolis, and Baltimore. Lastly, Montreal to San Diego will become a daily flight.
New routes, resumed routes, and frequency increases will be served by a variety of Air Canada aircraft types and service options. For complete details, including schedules and fares, visit aircanada.com.
