Air Canada Announces European Expansion

06/09/2023

Air Canada Boeing 787 Dreamliner C-FVNF — Steve Lynes

Air Canada has announced plans to expand in the Summer of 2024 with new routes and growth to European destinations.

Beginning next May, a year-round Montreal to Madrid service will start. Through this addition and other upcoming changes previously announced, it hopes to operate at 100% of its peak summer 2019 trans-Atlantic capacity.

Air Canada’s new Madrid service will depart Montreal as AC834 at 2030 before arriving in Madrid the next day at 0940. It’ll return as AC835, leaving at 1315 and entering Montreal at 1520. The Spain-bound flight departs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

On top of the Madrid service launch, there’ll also be other changes in Montreal with a host of changes to the network.

However, while Montreal will see service increases for 2024, it’ll also increase flights from Toronto, with many European cities getting boosts.

We are excited to announce a significant expansion of our service offering to Italy, with a combined three daily flights from Toronto and Montreal to Rome, as well as daily services to Milan and Venice. This underpins the importance of Italy in Air Canada’s global network, as we are the largest carrier between Canada and Italy, and the only one connecting the two countries on a year-round basis.
Mark Galardo, Executive Vice President of Revenue and Network Planning at Air Canada

11 COMMENTS

Dave 07/09/2023 At 03:38

What about Calgary and western Canada?

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- Daniel Fowkes 07/09/2023 At 13:37
  
  Air Canada has launched some expansion from here in another announcement but WestJet certainly want to take control of this market more and more.
  
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- Earl Jones 09/09/2023 At 09:08
  
  Flt to Toronto
  
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David Howe 07/09/2023 At 12:00

Ask Westjet. They want to be the west’s premier airline.

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Nigel Sivel 08/09/2023 At 04:54

I wish Air Canada would bring back their direct flight between Ottawa and Heathrow.

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- Daniel Fowkes 08/09/2023 At 10:19
  
  Fingers crossed!
  
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- Sandra G 08/09/2023 At 13:15
  
  I’d also like to see Air Canada bring back the non-stop flight from between Ottawa and Frankfurt. Air France is the only airline that offers a non-stop flight from Ottawa to Europe.
  
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- Lianne P 09/09/2023 At 07:42
  
  YES!!!
  
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- Daniel Fowkes 10/09/2023 At 16:11
  
  That would be a great connection!
  
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John 08/09/2023 At 10:17

Bring back havana flight from toronto

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Sinisha 10/09/2023 At 15:10

Vancouver is (again) left out; how many European destinations, direct flights, are reachable from YVR?

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