Air Transat which will open services between Bordeaux and Montreal in February 2026 and is launching flights to Madrid this winter. Air Canada which is relaunching flights from Montreal and Toronto to Naples, Porto and Prague, and is preparing to land in Edinburgh. French Bee which has just inaugurated its Paris-Orly route to Montreal. And last but not least, Finnair which is announcing its return to Helsinki-Toronto. Clearly, the Canada-Europe route is proving to be very popular. A situation that owes much to the United States, which has fallen out of favour with many European tourists.
Only in France, the densification of airlines over Canada is important this summer. The event is the arrival of French Bee on the Paris-Montréal routein direct competition with Air Canada, Air France and Air Transat. The French long-haul low-cost carrier started operating at the end of April. four weekly flights by Airbus A350-900XWB. It will be increased to 5 flights a week from Orly on 2 July.
Still in France, Air Transat confirms its leadership position with flights to 8 French cities from Montreal as well as on routes from Paris CDG to Toronto and Quebec City. During the summer season, the airline resumed its flights from Montreal to Basel-Mulhouse (2 flights/week), Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille (5 flights), Nantes (4 flights) as well as Nice and Toulouse (3 flights). From Paris-CDG, the airline serves Montreal, Quebec and Toronto. All operated by Airbus A321neo. New features include : an increase from two to three weekly frequencies from Basel-Mulhouse at the end of June. And the assurance of resuming its seasonal flight to Bordeaux from February 2026 instead of April.
From his side, Air Canada will continue to serve four French cities this summer (Paris-CDG, Lyon, Nice and Toulouse) from Montreal, as well as the Paris CDG-Toronto route. For its part, thea low-cost WestJet offers daily flights between Paris CDG and Calgary as well as four to five flights a week to Halifaxa route that was suspended in 2018. WestJet has also inaugurated a new route between Halifax and Amsterdam, as well as a weekly flight on the Paris CDG- St John's.
And finally.., Air France has increased the number of its flights this summer to Canada. The national airline offers 59 weekly frequencies from Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) during the peak summer season (July and August). This includes four daily flights to Montreal, two daily flights to Toronto and daily frequencies to and from Ottawa and Vancouver. Quebec City is also served by three flights a week.
As for Finnair11 years will have elapsed between the Finnish airline's last take-off since Toronto and its scheduled return in 2026. The carrier has officially announced that it will be resuming this route on 4 May 2026. With exactly the same frequencies and the same aircraft as in 2011: three weekly flights (Monday, Wednesday and Sunday) using Airbus A330-300 aircraft.
