Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted May 3, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted May 3, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Major Airline Cancels U.S. Flights Amid Low Demand U.S. travel is This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , to the point where airlines are having to regroup and cancel flights that were once scheduled to take off this year. While multiple U.S. airlines have This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up about having to lower the number of domestic flights available for the upcoming summer season, it’s not just domestic airlines. Over the past few months, both tourist and business travel from Canada to the U.S. have fallen. According to the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , at the U.S. and Canada border decreased by 12.5% in February and 18% in March, per This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Now, Air Canada is cutting down on San Francisco routes, and this follows earlier cuts to Washington and Miami. According to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , Air Canada “has already reduced its flight schedule to the U.S. amid lower demand,” with affected routes including “flights to Washington, Houston and Miami from This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up .” “If we can de-risk this a little bit and move and be a bit proactive and move capacity into other sectors [where] we see strength, I think that’s the right move right now in this context,” Mark Galardo, Air Canada’s executive vice presidency, revenue and network planning and president of cargo, told investors in March, per The Street. ********* airline WestJet has also canceled the start of a new, non-stop flight between Austin and Vancouver, due to a “downward shift in demand” for travel going between the United States and Canada, according to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . The YVR-AUS route was scheduled to start May 11 and, according to Texas television station This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . A WestJet spokesperson told KXAN, “Due to a downward shift in demand for U.S. travel, WestJet has made the difficult decision to suspend scheduled direct service between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Austin, Texas.” WestJet added that they will “review opportunities” to offer service on the Vancouver-Austin route in the future. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Major #Airline #Cancels #U.S #Flights #Demand This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/239941-major-airline-cancels-us-flights-amid-low-demand/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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