Air Transat only had 3 routes to the United States, but the airline will cancel all of them… for the summer. This isn’t very surprising. Canadians’ trips to the United States are down 28% in total, but the decrease is obviously mostly concentrated in leisure travel.
Air Transat is a leisure airline that has almost no business travelers. And even if there are still 50,000+ Canadians going to the United States every day, this is still a significant decrease.
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Here are the details of the canceled Air Transat routes to the United States.
Which Air Transat routes to the United States will be canceled?
Air Transat will cancel all its routes to the United States and leave the market completely, as it decided to do in Cuba (along with all other Canadian airlines).
(Airlines from Europe and pretty much every other country are all continuing their flights to Cuba… Canadians are indeed more fearful, sadly!)
But these flights were all to Florida, not a particularly pleasant state to visit in peak summer heat (and humidity). Believe me.
Air Transat hasn’t yet decided if it will go back to the US next winter.
They had only 3 US routes remaining:
- Montréal (YUL) – Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
- Montréal (YUL) – Orlando (MCO)
- Québec (YQB) – Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
In December, I completed the jetBlue flights challenge to get a bonus of hundreds of thousands of points with a kind of AvGeek Advent calendar of 1 flight per day for 10 days.
I finished in Florida, so I searched for an Orlando–Montréal return flight, and Air Transat was selling the ticket at 82 USD. That’s not extremely profitable for an airline of this kind.
Also, Transat’s partner airline, Porter, has been offering its own Montréal–Fort Lauderdale route since this year. Maybe Porter will add Orlando from Montréal (it already serves it from Ottawa, Toronto, and Halifax).
This partnership is actually what makes it possible for you to get 2 free roundtrips between Montréal and Paris on Air Transat, just with the incredible welcome bonus of the BMO VIPorter World Elite Mastercard.
No need to wait for Air Transat’s new rewards program coming soon, which was just announced (we’ll talk about it in our next travel rewards updates roundup post soon).
When will the Air Transat routes to the United States be canceled?
The flights for the winter season are not affected. Air Transat will complete the season, unlike what happened in Cuba.
Here is the date of the last flights for each route:
- Montréal–Fort Lauderdale: June 13, 2026
- Montréal–Orlando: May 4, 2026
- Québec–Fort Lauderdale: May 30, 2026
Which routes to the United States remain available?
While Canadian airlines are canceling routes (WestJet also announced several cancellations recently), US airlines are adding a few on their side.
Not enough to compensate for the capacity decrease, not at all. But Americans are still coming to Canada (an increase of 2.5% by air in January).
Objectively, out of the dozens of routes offered between Canada and the United States, the cancellation of Air Transat’s 3 routes doesn’t change much.
Let’s look at the US routes available from each major Canadian city.
From Toronto, 40+ cities are available on 9 airlines.
From Ottawa, 11 cities are available on 3 airlines.
From Montréal, 30 cities are available on 5 airlines.
From Halifax, 11 cities are available on 6 airlines.
From Vancouver, 35 cities are available on 10 airlines.
From Calgary, 29 cities are available on 6 airlines.
From Edmonton, 15 cities are available on 4 airlines.
From Winnipeg, 8 cities are available on 3 airlines.
That still leaves you many options if you’re among all those who want to travel to the US.
What are the most recent statistics for travel to the United States?
We hadn’t shared Statistics Canada’s numbers in a while, so let’s look at the most recent data.
It’s for the month of January 2026.
Canadians going to the United States (totals):
- Down 24% (but 28% versus 2024)
- 1.6 million in the month
- 52,000 per day on average
Here’s the breakdown for both types of travel.
By land:
- Down 27%
- 1.1 million travelers in the month
- 35,000 per day on average
By air:
- Down 18%
- 0.5 million travelers in the month
- 16,000 per day on average
It’s clearly a huge decrease. There are even hotels in Las Vegas that launched a promotion with a 1-to-1 exchange rate to attract Canadians.
But it’s also not a “50%” decrease or other absurd numbers that many throw around without knowing what they’re talking about (what a surprise to see that on the Internet, right?).
And the comment we see most often on the subject (“Nobody goes there anymore”) is clearly false, unless you consider that 50,000 people per day is “nobody”.
The United States is still by far the most visited country by Canadians. In fact, despite the drop, more Canadians visited the US than all other countries combined.
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Summary
Air Transat will cancel its 3 routes to the United States in response to the decrease in demand. Canadian travel to the United States is indeed down 28%. These cancellations won’t have a huge impact, considering the tiny American network that Transat had.
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