Air Canada cancels all flights to U.S. state due to low demand

TheStreet · Veronika Bondarenko · 2026-10-21 17:22 UTC

The national airline initially entered the market with a flight from Toronto in 2001.

While the number of Canadians going to the U.S. for leisure trips saw a small bounceback over several months last summer, cross-border travel is still at a low unseen in decades driven above all by President Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric and politics toward the northern neighbor.

According to the monthly numbers published by the Canadian government’s statistics agency, the number of Canadian trips to the U.S. in September 2026 was down by 29% compared to two years ago in 2024 — a 31% decrease for car border crossings and a 19% drop for flights.

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