US President Donald Trump's posturing towards Canada has led to a widespread boycott. It ranges from Canadian consumers refusing to buy American to the outright cancellation of trips to the neighbour to the south.
The airlines are logically drawing the consequences. Like Air Canadawho has just published an exhaustive list of air routes to the United States on which it is reducing its capacity.
If the company does not cut any routes, lower frequencies can have consequences for European business travellers who choose Montréal or Toronto as their hub connecting flights to the United States.
These frequency reductions are gradual. But at the end of July, seat capacity will be down by more than 8% compared with the winter timetable. This means 162,667 seats at the end of July, compared with 177,101 at the end of February. On the other hand, the number of flights remains more or less stable, since it decreased by only 2.3% flights from Canadian airports. This means 1,422 weekly one-way flights, compared with 1,456 flights in mid-February.
In detail, reductions are effective from Montreal to 9 destinations, Toronto to 16 destinations and Vancouver to 4 cities of the United States. And contrary to what you might imagine from Europe, these frequency reductions also affect major American business centres. In addition to the 'sun destinations' so popular with Canadians until recently.
Montreal sees sharp fall in number of seats to BostonChicago and Fort Lauderdale. Capacity is also reduced towards Los Angeles, Miami, New York-LaGuardia, Orlando, San Diego and San Francisco.
From Toronto, ldrastically reduced capacity to Chicago, Cleveland, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami and Orlando. In addition to these 7 cities, Air Canada is also reducing capacity on Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Fort Myers, New York-LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, St. Louis and Washington-Dulles.
Finally, at Vancouver, seat capacity is down on Chicago, Houston and Miami while the summer service on Washington Dulles is simply cancelled.
Three additional weekly flights to Paris-Toronto
On the other hand, Air Canada announces capacity increases at Paris CDG. The company adds three weekly frequencies to Toronto. They will be available between 16 June and 1 September 2025. This will bring to 10 weekly flights on this route.
The new frequencies will start every Monday, Thursday and Sunday with a mid-afternoon flight for a late afternoon arrival in Toronto in a Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner equipped with three classes of service. Air Canada is also operating 14 weekly flights to Montreal this summer.. The carrier also offers 4 flights a week to Lyon-Montreal and on Toulouse-Montréal.
