Air Canada to Resume Flights to Key International Destinations

(23 Feb 2022)  Air Canada has unveiled plans to operate an expanded Summer 2022 international schedule with 34 routes relaunching across the Atlantic and Pacific.

Starting next month, the Canadian flag carrier will begin resuming non-stop services from Toronto to Tel Aviv, Paris, Tokyo and Amsterdam.

Service from Montreal to Casablanca, Nice, Algiers, Rome, Tel Aviv and Tokyo will also resume.

From Vancouver, Air Canada will operate flights to Frankfurt, Dublin and Zurich.

Air Canada Boeing 787-9 reg: C-FVLX. Picture by Steven Howard of TravelNewsAsia.com

Service to popular tourist destinations such as Barcelona, Budapest, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan and Venice, which had been suspended since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, are also expected to resume.

"This is very exciting news for our customers especially now that Omicron is behind us, countries are reopening and border measures are being eased around the world for fully vaccinated travellers," said Mark Galardo, Senior Vice President, Network Planning and Revenue Management at Air Canada. "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. Our vast and growing network has been built to conveniently increase connectivity to and from global destinations through our Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver hubs."

The relaunch of international routes builds on Air Canada's major expansion in the North American market where 7 new routes are scheduled for Summer 2022 and 41 previously suspended routes are resuming.

Flights are timed to optimize connectivity to Air Canada's extensive North American network, including 46 airports in the U.S.