Airlines
Copa Airlines, Uplift Take Off
Uplift continues its international partner growth by launching with Copa Airlines. Customers booking flights on Copa Airlines can now spread the cost of their travel over time in simple and affordable monthly installments. Headquartered in Panama City, Panama and operating for more than 70 years, Copa Airlines is known for one of the most modern aviation fleets along with delivering award-winning on-time performance. Copa Airlines serves countries across North, Central and South America along with the Caribbean with more than 70 destinations across the Americas. Now, Copa...
Air France Takes Off From Vancouver To Paris
Air France’s Canada-Paris summer schedule will include up to 49 flights a week in summer 2022, including a daily flight between Vancouver and Paris. This ups the airline’s number of weekly flights out of Vancouver by two, while overall departures from Canada will be up 27% compared to summer 2019. “After 2 years of curtailing flights, we are proud to be able to measurably increase the number of departures from Vancouver and our other Canadian destinations,” said Air France’s Catherine Guillemart Dias; adding that this will make “Air France the leading European airline in...
See It For Real With Air Transat
Air Transat is inviting agents’ clients to stop envisioning their ideal vacation and to see it for real – whether it’s in Europe, the South or the United States. And to make it easier and more attractive, Air Transat has launched its See It For Real promotion that’s valid on new, individual bookings made between March 14 and April 3, 2022 and applicable for travel between April 1 and Oct. 31, 2022. For more, go to...
WestJet Continues Its Support For Indigenous Tourism
During the recent National Indigenous Tourism Conference in Calgary, a review of WestJet efforts to support Indigenous tourism companies confirmed that the carrier is staying the course with funding for the sector. The airline allocated a budget to boost the Canadian Indigenous tourism sector in 2019, before changing that to a support fund for select Indigenous firms that needed help during the pandemic. Repping the airline at the just-finished conference was Angela Avery, the EVP, general counsel & corporate secretary for WestJet. She told assembled delegates that WestJet and...
Taking Off For The Recovery
WestJet rolled out its 2022 summer schedule, marking a significant milestone in recovery through the restoration of its network to near pre-pandemic levels. The carrier will be making significant investments in its transatlantic network, offering a multitude of connections to Europe this summer, with more non-stop service options across the country from Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax. As well, WestJet announced new, daily service between Toronto and Chicago that begins on May 19, 2022. John Weatherill, Chief Commercial Officer, WestJet, said that: “We know...
Flight Bookings Stall
FowardKeys is reporting that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “caused an immediate stall in flight bookings” to Europe and within Russia domestically. In its second public analysis since the outbreak of war, ForwardKeys compared flight bookings in the week following the invasion, Feb 24 to March 2, to the previous seven days. Excluding Ukraine and Moldova, which closed their air space, and Russia and Belarus, which were subjected to flight bans and safety warnings, the destinations worst affected were generally those closest to the conflict. Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia,...
Air Canada Partners To Launch Humanitarian Effort
An Air Canada-operated humanitarian special cargo flight on behalf of Airlink and other aid organizations departed Toronto Pearson International Airport with a final destination of Warsaw, Poland yesterday (March 9). Through a partnership between Air Canada, disaster logistics non-profit Airlink, relief organization Project C.U.R.E., and freight forwarder Flexport, medical supplies and hospital beds, humanitarian and medical supplies were loaded onboard the Air Canada Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. Medical and trauma supplies destined for a Ukrainian hospital provided by Canadian disaster...
Air Travel Recovery Slowed In January
IATA is reporting that the recovery in air travel slowed for both domestic and international in January 2022 compared to December 2021, owing to the imposition of travel restrictions following the emergence of Omicron last November. The industry association also noted that it is now returning to year-on-year traffic comparisons, instead of comparisons with the 2019 period, unless otherwise noted. Owing to the low traffic base in 2021, some markets will show very high year-on-year growth rates, even if the size of these markets is still significantly smaller than they were in...