Air Canada will launch service between Vancouver (YVR) and Orange County, California (SNA) from Oct. 2, flying a route it planned to start in June 2020 but scrapped because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The route will be initially be operated 4X-weekly, increasing to daily in 2022. Air Canada will operate the service using Boeing 737-8, according to OAG Schedules Analyser.
Air Canada originally announced the route in early March 2020 to start in June 2020, but COVID-19 hit North America just weeks after the announcement, leading to, among other things, the closing of the US-Canada border to all but essential travel. The border reopened on Aug. 9 for vaccinated passengers.
Air Canada senior VP-network planning Mark Galardo said the new route is part of the restoration of the Canada-US transborder network. This fall, the Montreal-based carrier will fly 240 daily flights to/from 35 destinations across the US.
Air Canada said it will eventually fly its full transborder network, which would include serving 57 US cities, “as conditions allow.”
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