I think French Bee already announced a route from ORY.
I know Iberia at some point wanted to use their A321XLR from Madrid. Also, I will be really happy to see LOT launching a route from Warsaw. Oh and apparently Air Senegal wanted to open a flight from Dakar although they have financial problems as they just pulled back from JFK…
French Bee wants to operate YUL-ORY but no official announcement has been made.
Other then that, but not necessarily in 2025.
ITA
Iberia
How about Ethiopian ? There has not been much said in a while about ET
They’ve mentioned countless times their desire to serve YUL, but until Canadian bilaterals are changed to allow more flights to Canada they are unable to serve YUL. They are allowed to fly 7 weekly to Canada, which they rightfully chose to serve Toronto daily.
I’m hoping for some of these at some point in the next 5 years or more…
Alaska
Viva Aerobus or Volaris
JetBlue (one can hope)
Air India or Indigo (eventually)
Icelandair (an eventual return)
Bermudair
ITA (eventually)
Norse Atlantic or Play
French Bee
Another east Asian carrier (one more of the Chinese big 3 or Thai or Singapore)
Also those that have been talked about for years now
Iberia
Aer Lingus
Ethiopian
Brussels Airlines
LOT
I read somewhere there’s high demand from Montreal to Bangkok and Yaoundé of all places… I’d bet Air Canada will explore this more than their own local carriers once Air Canada starts flights to West Africa (Dakar & Abidjan)… it’ll take time though.
Anyway it’s just my wish list.
JetBlue is reorganizing, but I’d bet they’ll come to eastern Canada before Alaska does. For TransAtl SAS and ITA are possible – if a bit unlikely since WestJet basically bailed on YUL and YYZ.
Another solid month for July 2024! About 105k more than 2023. June 2024 was also revised up!
Transborder traffic up by 76k in a single month, very impressive growth, +16% more than last year.
Still on track for 22.5 million.
That’s what it felt like. July broke me (for real).
At this point I wonder if YUL could eventually catch up to YYZ
Not YYZ, but catching up to YVR is not impossible. At current pace, it would only take a few years. This said, unless the expansion project is kicked into high gear, we may face a capacity threshold (moreso…)
À ce propos j’ajouterais qu’en plus du développement d’une flotte appropriée pour percer de nouveaux marchés (notamment à AC), l’immigration est devenue un autre facteur de croissance important dans l’expansion des vols internationaux à YUL. Bien sûr la facilité de correspondance a elle aussi largement profité à ce mouvement dont les effets combinés ont contribué à soutenir ce cercle vertueux.
Air Canada has removed YUL-ARN (Stockholm) for summer 2025.
They plane will instead be used for Seoul.
it’s not surprising
If AC couldn’t make it work until the A321XLR arrives, that must mean it did pretty poorly this summer.
It also doesn’t help that SAS left Star Alliance this year.
YYZ-ARN goes from 2 to 4 weekly, where as this summer service was overall 5 weekly between both YUL and YYZ. The fact that they’re not even going back 5 weekly tells you everything you need to know about the route.
On a side note, some USA changes for next summer.
Air Canada in late-August 2024 filed selected changes to its planned US operation for Northern summer 2025 season, effective 01MAY25. Planned frequency changes compared to Northern summer 2024 season, as of 08SEP24, as follows.
Montreal – New York LaGuardia Increase from 48 to 49 weekly
Montreal – Raleigh/Durham Increase from 7 to 14 weekly
Montreal – San Francisco Increase from 13 to 20 weekly
I’m curious to see if United keeps their SFO-YUL mainline service next year or is Air Canada just taking over.
Par pitié foutez United dehors j’en ai marre de leurs 737 où on est assis tout coincé.
Vivent les A220 de AC qui ont plus de place pour les jambes et les épaules!
It’s not loaded in the system at all yet for next year, but usually US flight schedules aren’t final until March anyway.
It’s funny cause United added this flight to actually replace one of AC’s this summer. AC was already 20 weekly this summer (June), but due to the ongoing A220 engine problems I’m guessing they got UA to add this flight for them from July onward.
Air Canada express is also adding a new US route on May 22nd.
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