Airlines
Porter Kicks Off Mont Tremblant Service Dec. 9
Porter Airlines will kick off the ski season with winter service between Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport and Mont Tremblant on Dec. 9. Flights are available until April 3, 2017, with service up to six times weekly during the peak schedule. In less than 75 minutes, passengers can travel from downtown Toronto to the slopes of Mont Tremblant. In addition to downhill skiing and snowboarding, winter in Tremblant offers an array of outdoor activities such as dog sledding, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. For the less adventurous, there are also a slope-side spa,...
WestJet to Launch New Sudbury Service
WestJet will begin daily service between the Greater Sudbury Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport starting Feb. 3, 2017. Operated by WestJet's regional airline, WestJet Encore, the service will increase to three daily flights in May 2017. WestJet Rewards members will be able to earn more than nickels on the new service. Members taking their first flight to or from Sudbury between Feb. 3 and March 31, 2017, can register at westjet.com/sudburybonus to receive a bonus of 25 WestJet dollars just for trying the new service. As a further incentive, for the month of...
Delta Resumes Halifax-JFK Service
Travellers from Halifax Stanfield International Airport can once again take advantage of year round service to New York’s JFK. Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA) reports that Delta will resume year round service to the airline’s hub at John F. Kennedy International Airport beginning Jan. 9, 2017. “We are very pleased to welcome Delta back to our community on a year round basis,” says Joyce Carter, HIAA president & CEO. “Delta’s service to New York provides both business and leisure travellers with more options and more choice. The route will also help...
Sunwing Increases Flights to Puerto Plata
Sunwing is introducing more flights from Western Canada to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic this coming winter season, with the addition of weekly services from Regina, Saskatoon and Calgary. Travellers from Regina can take advantage of a Tuesday service that will operate between Dec. 13 and March 28, 2017, inclusive. Flights from Saskatoon are scheduled to operate on Thursdays between Dec. 15 and March 30, 2017, inclusive and the Calgary flight service will be available on Fridays from Dec. 23 to March 31, 2017, inclusive. With this increased scheduling, Sunwing will be offering...
Belize Welcomes WestJet
With Saturday's departure of flight 2604 from Toronto's Pearson International Airport, WestJet officially became the only Canadian carrier to offer direct service to Belize. “Leaving Canada and hitting the beaches in Belize by mid-day is something that Canadian travellers are not used to and we have absolutely changed the game with our twice-weekly service from Toronto,” said Bob Cummings, WestJet executive vice-president, Commercial. “I extend a big thanks to our WestJet team, the Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation as well as the Belize Tourism Board for their support in the...
WestJet Honours Trade Partners
WestJet's 4th annual Travel Partner Awards was a funny affair last night (Oct. 27). That's because the airline enlisted a popular improv quartet from Boston to entertain the several hundred travel trade guests from across the country who turned out for the elegant gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. Suffice to say, be thankful that you're not Transat's Susan Bowman or Red Tag's Joe DeMarinis, who were just a couple of the troupe's “volunteer” targets, today... In addition to the laughs, guests were treated to cocktails and dinner, plenty of door prizes, and the awards....
Air France, KLM Release Winter Schedules
Air France and KLM have released their winter schedules and will be operating 47 weekly flights between Canada and Europe during the winter season – Oct. 30 through March 25, 2017. Air France will offer 22 weekly flights from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The airline will be flying between Montreal and Paris 12 times a week, and once daily out of Toronto. There will be three departures a week for the direct Vancouver-Paris flight inaugurated in 2015. Air France’s Montreal-Paris service now offers new options with departures will at 6:25 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. The airline will...
Routehappy Connects On Deal With AC
Air Canada and Routehappy have signed a new deal that will see AC using the Routehappy Hub to distribute highly targeted, visually rich merchandising content across its worldwide sales and marketing channels to improve the flight shopping experience. As well, Air Canada will be the first airline to participate in a platform integration between Farelogix and Routehappy following the partnership announced earlier this year between the two companies. The integration will seamlessly deliver targeted merchandising content from Routehappy Hub, as well as dynamic pricing and rules-driven...