US Airlines Adding Canadian Routes

American Airlines and Delta are adding routes to Canadian airports in a hopeful bid, despite the latest numbers from Statistics Canada indicating transborder travel continues to fall. 

American and Delta are each adding non-stop flights from a U.S. hub in hopes that summer travellers will be more willing to cross the border than they have been, although the numbers of Americans coming North has not declined as steeply as the reverse. 

Starting on June 13, 2026, Delta will fly a once weekly summer season flight on Saturdays between Boston Logan International (BOS) and Halifax Stanfield International (YHZ). 

American Airlines will be flying out of JFK New York to both Quebec City Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB) and Calgary International (YYC).

The daily Quebec City flight will commence on Aug. 5, 2026 aboard a 76-seat Embraer E175. The Calgary flight will operate three times per week on a 172-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8. Both are seasonal flights that will run until October.

The airlines are presumably hoping Americans will want to visit Canada this summer. According to StatsCan’s report on screened passengers (residents and non-residents) at Canada’s eight largest airports, in December 2025, traffic to the United States dropped 12.5 percent from December 2024 to 1.1 million screened passengers, marking the 11th consecutive month of year-over-year decreases. Each of the airports posted double-digit declines. 

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