One of the most credible airline rankings recently revealed the world’s best for 2025, which, of course, included Canadian airlines. We first shared the top 10 best airlines in the world, and now I want to tell you how the 5 Canadian airlines included in the survey are ranked.
You can read the introduction of the world’s top 10 best airlines for context about this ranking. In that post, I also reminded you of how subjective these rankings always are…
Case in point, every single year, many Canadians are always very surprised to learn that Air Canada is the #1 best airline in all of North America (not just Canada)!
Here’s the ranking of the best Canadian airlines for 2025, according to Skytrax’s World Airline Awards.
Infographic of the best Canadian airlines ranking in 2025
Here’s how the 5 major Canadian airlines fared in the Skytrax ranking for 2025 (Air Canada’s subsidiary Air Canada Rouge is listed separately in this survey).
The only other large Canadian airline missing is Flair Airlines, our nation’s only ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC). It’s just that it’s much too small to be included (20 aircraft), whereas the smallest of the 5 Canadian airlines included has almost twice that number of planes.
List of the best Canadian airlines in 2025
Here are a few more details about Canadian airlines.
#19: Air Canada
- Country: Canada 🇨🇦
- Alliance: Star Alliance
- 2024 rank: #29 (↑ 10)
- Fleet size: 316
#44: Porter
- Country: Canada 🇨🇦
- Alliance: None
- 2024 rank: #57 (↑ 13)
- Fleet size: 73
#60: Air Transat
- Country: Canada 🇨🇦
- Alliance: None
- 2024 rank: #59 (↓ 1)
- Fleet size: 43
#75: WestJet
- Country: Canada 🇨🇦
- Alliance: None
- 2024 rank: #66 (↓ 9)
- Fleet size: 170
#94: Air Canada Rouge
- Country: Canada 🇨🇦
- Alliance: Star Alliance
- 2024 rank: #103 (↑ 9)
- Fleet size: 37
Unranked: Flair Airlines
- Country: Canada 🇨🇦
- Alliance: None
- 2024 rank: Unranked
- Fleet size: 20
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Summary
The ranking of the best Canadian airlines in 2025 is surprising to many travelers, just as it is every single year. Our flag carrier, Air Canada, does very well in these rankings, being the #1 airline in all of North America. Yet many people here are somewhat stunned by that.
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