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The network additions include the launch of a new international destination from the ULCC’s Western Canadian base.

The services are part of a winter schedule that will see the Calgary-based carrier’s network grow to more than 95 destinations.

The carrier will fly to the California city from three Canadian airports.

Ryanair’s domestic expansion in Sweden, Swoop adding a fourth destination in Mexico, and Austrian Airlines returning to Montreal are among the latest new route announcements and service resumptions.

The carrier cites ‘soaring vaccination rates’ in Cuba as one reason why it is restarting flights to the island nation.

The Canadian carrier has resumed international flights and announced plans to launch a new route to Kingston in Jamaica.

The fast-growing Canadian ULCC will begin its first US services from Edmonton in December.

The ULCC continues an aggressive growth pattern which will see it start transborder US services this fall.

The country's airlines had been encouraging the government to restart international travel for vaccinated passengers.

Carrier affirms plan to launch 11 new nonstop services across Canada.

Routes hears how the ULCC has been breaking new ground despite the impact of the pandemic.

The six transborder services to three new US points follow the Canadian airline’s Request for Proposals on Route Exchange.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carrier’s networks.

Swoop is adding a new destination in British Columbia this summer and expanding from a second. Both airports participated in the Canadian carrier’s recent RFP with Routes.

The city is the ninth Canadian domestic destination to be added to the carrier’s network this summer.

Eleven new domestic services are being launched, with the airline’s CEO Ed Sims calling on Canadian citizens to support the country’s tourism industry.

How COVID-19 has stopped the Canadian ULCC boom in its tracks, and why Parm Sidhu believes his ultra-low-cost airport model is ideal for the recovery.

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

Flights from Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver affected.

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

WestJet’s ultra-low-cost subsidiary Swoop will operate four domestic and five international routes from Toronto Pearson International.

Canada’s Air Transat plans to fly to 40 destinations during the winter season, with a focus on warm weather locations.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at KLM’s new service to Cork; WestJet’s transatlantic resumption; and Air Albania’s decision to enter the crowded Tirana-London market.

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

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.