Canada

Canadian North and Air Greenland plan to explore the launch of new routes between the territories.

As Air Canada cuts services to the country’s Atlantic provinces, Routes looks at the latest weekly capacity of the biggest airports, airlines and routes in Canada.

Atlantic Canada Airports Association warns repercussions of the service cuts will be felt 'for years to come.'

COVID-19 testing will be critical to building back consumer confidence, airlines and airports say.

France’s national carrier expects to operate up to 55% of its 2019 domestic schedule over the Christmas period.

WestJet's CEO says he sees more Canadian sun-seekers willing to undergo the 14-day quarantine on return to Canada as winter settles in.

The airlines have blamed “arbitrary and capricious” conditions imposed by the US Department of Transportation for the decision.

The two airlines have formed a codeshare partnership ahead of Air Canada’s plans to launch service to Qatar this December.

While Jetstar and Sunwing are resuming suspended routes, Porter Airlines has further delayed its planned restart and Norwegian is preparing to ground 15 of the 21 aircraft currently in operation.

The decision to suspend the routes, alongside the closure of nine Canadian stations, hinges on the outcome of talks with Canada’s government.

The lifting of restrictions will see more international flights return to LIM.

Routes to secondary European cities, popular prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, have been scrapped.

'It has become unviable to serve these markets and these decisions were regrettably inevitable as demand is being obliterated by the Atlantic bubble and third-party fee increases,' WestJet president and CEO Ed Sims said.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Qantas resuming trans-Tasman flights; Air India expanding with a new Canadian service; and Air Arabia Abu Dhabi’s latest network addition.

Charter operator Nolinor Aviation is launching a new scheduled airline in Canada.

On the second anniversary of Swoop's inaugural flight, head of commercial Bert van der Stege discusses the airline’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and how it intends to maintain its growth path over the coming years.

Calin Rovinescu tells an Aviation Week Network webinar that his airline expects to carry 25% of last year’s number of passengers in Q3, providing it has market access.

Canadian ULCC Swoop is increasing its domestic network from July but several planned seasonal services have been postponed.

Air Canada and Transat are the two leading airlines operating a wide network of routes between Europe and Canada.

A limited transborder network will be dropped altogether on April 26 for the time being.

Canada’s flag carrier planned to offer more than 16 million seats during the second quarter of the year but will slash capacity by up to 90% in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

The new service to California’s Orange County will bring the airline’s daily flights between Canada and California to 43.

Canadian ultra-LCC Flair Airlines will fly eight new routes in summer 2020 but is pulling service from Abbotsford after strong competition from WestJet subsidiary Swoop.

Canada’s WestJet has appointed a new vice president of network planning and alliances.

Air Canada is in exclusive talks to buy the company that owns Air Transat, potentially providing an opportunity to quickly expand its Air Canada Rouge business and increase consolidation in the transatlantic market. The proposed acquisition comes days after private equity firm Onex Corp struck a deal for Canadian rival WestJet.