Canada

Sun destinations hit as airlines asked for service suspensions.

Leisure carrier revises winter schedule but maintains some international routes.

Canada’s flag-carrier intends to begin serving India’s capital from Montreal in April, ahead of launching a seasonal route between the Canadian city and Cairo.

The move comes after Transport Canada lifted the ban on the MAX in Canadian airspace.

Any passenger entering Canada must now have a negative result from a recent COVID-19 test.

The airline's fleet of 29 de Havilland Dash 8-400s has been grounded since March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Flights from Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver affected.

Canadian carriers say the country's strict regulations are depressing demand.

The carrier is restoring more international warm-weather routes during January.

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.

Aviation consultancy ASM analyzes the current state of the North American market and projects how traffic will recover in 2021.

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.