Air Canada has announced an expanded Summer 2022 international schedule with 34 routes relaunching across the Europe, Asia, Africa and The Middle East, including relaunching service to popular tourist destinations such as Barcelona, Budapest, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan, and Venice, which have been suspended since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. At the same time dozens more routes are resuming in North America.
International highlights include:
• Starting next month, non-stop services will begin resuming from Toronto to Tel Aviv (March 1), Paris (March 2), Amsterdam (March 2), and Tokyo (April 27).
• Service from Montreal to Casablanca (May 4), Nice (May 12), Algiers (June 8), Rome (March 26), Tel Aviv (May 1), and Tokyo (June 4)will also be resuming.
• From Vancouver, Air Canada will be offering service to Frankfurt (May 1), Dublin (June 1), and Zurich (June 17).
“This is very exciting news for our customers especially now that Omicron is behind us, countries are re-opening and border measures are being eased around the world for fully vaccinated travellers,” said Mark Galardo, Sr. VP, Network Planning and Revenue Management at Air Canada.
He added, “Air Canada’s recovery is well underway and gaining strength, and we are pleased to expand our international network across four continents as we respond to pent-up demand… Combined with the networks of our Joint Venture and Star Alliance partners, we can offer customers easy access to virtually any destination in the world.”
North America
The relaunch of the international routes builds on Air Canada’s major expansion in the North American market, where seven new routes are scheduled for Summer and 41 previously suspended routes are resuming.
• New services will be launching to the US from Montreal to Atlanta and Detroit, Toronto to Salt Lake City, and Vancouver to Austin.
• Within Canada, three new routes will begin between Montreal and Gander, Calgary and Fort St John, and Vancouver and Halifax.
• Additionally, service will be restored on 41 North American routes, including: 13 routes from Toronto, nine from Montreal, five from Ottawa, five from Vancouver, four from Calgary, three from Halifax, and two from Edmonton.
All routes are timed to connect with Air Canada’s domestic, US, and international network at the airline’s global hubs in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.