Air Canada plans to rebuild its domestic network to cover a total 50 Canadian airports over the summer, including restarting several seasonal routes and adding three new routes.
The new routes all are from Montreal, including daily service to Deer Lake, Newfoundland, starting July 1; service to Kelowna, British Columbia, beginning June 26, increasing to four times weekly by August; and daily service to Regina via Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, starting Aug. 1. The carrier will resume service on nearly 40 other routes throughout Canada from late June to early August.
“With Canada’s ongoing vaccine roll-out acceleration together with various provincial governments’ reopening plans that include travel, this summer is looking brighter,” Air Canada SVP of network planning and revenue management Mark Galardo said in a statement.
Air Canada had suspended service on several regional routes due to the Covid-19 pandemic but agreed to resume service to most regional communities as part of a liquidity program agreement with the Canadian government reached earlier this year. In addition to its own service, Air Canada will connect to five other regional communities—Wabush, Labrador; Baie-Comeau, Quebec; Gaspé, Quebec; Mont-Joli, Quebec; and Val-d’Or, Quebec—through interline agreements with third-party regional carriers.
