In turn, the various Canadian airlines presented their winter schedule, with many resumptions of flights, as well as the addition of some new destinations for this season and next year. A brief overview.
Posted at 11:30 a.m.
As for Air Transat, the company is targeting 9 European destinations, 23 connections in the South (Antilles, Mexican Pacific coast, Caribbean, Latin America and Florida) and 3 in the United States for the winter. Regarding Europe, note that the Montreal-London flight is now offered all year round, while the Montreal-Marseille link, usually interrupted in the fall, will be extended until the beginning of January 2023.
Among the flights to the South, one of the notable resumptions will be the Montreal-Havana route, restarted from December 19, 2022; it had been stopped for three years, due to the pandemic. Three weekly non-stop flights will be offered to the Cuban capital. Earlier this year, new services to San Francisco and Los Angeles were inaugurated – they will cease next winter, but will resume service in the spring of 2023.
At Air Canada
As for Air Canada, after the resumption of many annual services from Montreal last summer (Casablanca, Nice, Algiers, Rome, Tel-Aviv and Tokyo), new connections are in the crosshairs of the carrier; however, it will be necessary to wait until June 2023 before the addition of Montreal-Toulouse and Montreal-Copenhagen flights, which will be offered all year round. The company also announced the intensification of flights for certain destinations from the Quebec metropolis (Frankfurt, Geneva, Nice, Tel Aviv, Algiers, São Paulo, Tokyo Narita).
Air Canada’s Vacations subsidiary recently announced new nonstop routes (including Montreal-Antigua and Quebec City-Varadero) for winter and return to key seasonal destinations like Aruba, Curaçao, Great Exuma, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Belize.
sunwing
For Sunwing, the recovery will also be strong with the return of many winter flights departing from Montreal to some twenty “sun” destinations: daily connections to Cayo Coco, Cancún, Holguin, Punta Cana, Santa Clara, Varadero from beginning of November until April, but also weekly flights to Miami, Puerto Vallarta or Acapulco from December, among others.
“We are excited to offer flights to several new and expanding destinations this year, including flights from Montreal to Cayo Largo in Cuba, Freeport to Grand Bahama, San Andrés in Colombia and La Romana in the Dominican Republic,” said Marie-Josée Carrière, spokesperson for the carrier.
From Quebec, new connections to Roatán (Honduras), Panama, as well as Cayo Largo have been established.