Air101: Air Canada to start three new U.S. routes, including service from Toronto and Montreal to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Toronto to Sacramento

09 December, 2022

Air Canada to start three new U.S. routes, including service from Toronto and Montreal to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Toronto to Sacramento

Air Canada has announced three new U.S. routes, including service from Toronto and Montreal to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Toronto to Sacramento as part of its trans-border summer schedule. For summer 2023, Air Canada will also restore 11 suspended trans-border services and increase frequencies on 12 popular routes to the U.S. in rebuilding its global network following the pandemic.

"Air Canada is very pleased to offer customers the most choice of any carrier flying to the U.S. for Summer 2023, where we will operate more than 400 daily flights on 95 routes to 47 destinations. We are getting an early start with new routes to JFK from both Toronto and Montreal beginning March 26, and Toronto-Sacramento in June. As well, we will restore previously suspended routes and increase frequencies on existing routes as we rebuild our transborder schedule," said Mark Galardo, Senior Vice President of Network Planning and Revenue Management at Air Canada.

"Our U.S. summer schedule, which will complement our recently announced Canadian and international summer schedules, is designed to maximize connectivity within our network and offer the most seats on the most flights to the most destinations. Strengthened by our Transborder Joint Business Agreement with United Airlines, our schedule will also be attractive for sixth freedom global travellers flying internationally and strengthen our hub airports with more connection traffic."

New U.S. Services

Air Canada is further cementing its leadership as the largest international carrier serving the New York market, offering more than 3,500 seats on 39 daily flights from six Canadian cities (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Halifax) into New York City's three major airports (JFK, Newark, LaGuardia).

New services to New York's JFK will begin March 26, with double daily service from Toronto and daily service from Montreal. Flights will be operated by Air Canada Jazz using an Embraer E175 aircraft with 76 seats in a Business and Economy Class configuration.

Flight	Departs	Arrives	Frequency
AC8899	New York JFK 12:45	Montreal 14:20	Daily
AC8898	Montreal 18:25	New York JFK 20:00	Daily
AC8553	New York JFK 10:00	Toronto 11:45	Daily
AC8554	Toronto 11:00	New York JFK 12:36	Daily
AC8555	New York JFK 13:25	Toronto 15:10	Daily
AC8556	Toronto 20:30	New York JFK 22:06	Daily

New service between Toronto and Sacramento will begin June 1, 2023. Flights will be operated year-round, four-days-a-week, by Air Canada using an Airbus A220-300 aircraft with 137 seats in a Business Class and Economy Class configuration.

Flight	Departs	Arrives	Days of Week
AC759	Toronto 18:30	Sacramento 20:55	Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday
AC758	Sacramento 09:25	Toronto 17:15	Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

In addition to the new Toronto-Sacramento service beginning in June, Air Canada's Halifax-Newark daily service starting December 16, 2022, its Montreal-Tampa three-times-weekly service, its Vancouver-Miami three-times-weekly service starting December 17, 2022, and its new Vancouver-Houston daily service starting December 16, 2022 will continue in the summer as year-round operations.

Transborder Flight Resumptions

Route	Start Date	Frequency
Vancouver-Austin	May 1, 2023	Three times weekly
Montreal-Nashville	May 1, 2023	Three times weekly
Calgary-Los Angeles	May 1, 2023	Daily
Toronto-Milwaukee	May 1, 2023	Daily
Montreal-Philadelphia	May 1, 2023	Two times daily
Montreal-Pittsburgh	May 1, 2023	Daily
Vancouver-Anchorage	May 1, 2023	Daily
Montreal-Seattle	May 15, 2023	Daily
Toronto-Hartford	June 1, 2023	Two times daily
Toronto-Salt Lake City	June 1, 2023	Three times weekly
Toronto-Kansas City	June 17, 2023	Daily
Toronto-Portland	June 17, 2023	Daily
Vancouver-Boston	June 17, 2023	Daily

Frequency Increases (transborder to the U.S)

Route	Frequency (Summer 2023 versus Summer 2022)
Vancouver-Seattle	Increases to six times daily from five daily
Vancouver-San Francisco	Increases to five times daily from four daily
Toronto-San Francisco	Increases to five times daily from three daily
Vancouver-San Diego	Increases to three times daily from twice daily
Vancouver-Newark	Increases to two times daily from once daily
Toronto-San Diego	Increases to two times daily from once daily
Toronto-Seattle	Increases to two times daily from once daily
Toronto-Minneapolis	Increases to four times daily from three daily
Toronto-Philadelphia	Increases to four times daily from three daily
Toronto-Pittsburgh	Increases to four times daily from three daily
Toronto-Washington (Reagan)	Increases to four times daily from twice daily
Toronto-Indianapolis	Increases to three times daily from twice daily
Toronto-Baltimore	Increases to three times daily from twice daily
Montreal-San Diego	Increases to daily from three times weekly

Jason Shaw.

Jason Shaw's love of the aviation industry started at a young age when he used to watch the whirlybirds of Bristow Helicopters coming and going from the garden of his Surrey childhood home. Since those days he's worked in a number of key areas within the aviation industry from airlines, travel agents, holiday companies and product selection to reporting on it for local radio and making video travel brochures.

Jason is also an experienced broadcaster, having presented on radio, television, corporate videos and video travel brochures.

He's an avid reader and has also written a number of books, articles, features and reports.

Jason loves to travel, eat cheesecake and his favourite destinations include Port Douglas, Singapore and Copenhagen.

Joshua Jordan.

Josh loves to travel and has a passionate interest in the airline industry. He's worked in both travel and the media for a number of years. His voice can often be heard on Internet-based radio stations as well and the odd commercial! The destination he calls his favourite is - New York.

Adam Shaw

Adam is the youngest member of the team, no relation to Jason and like the rest of the team, he has a keen interest in airlines, aircraft and aviation. His favourite destination is Prague and has just started taking flying lessons.