Maple Leaf to Big Apple: Air Canada announces new routes into New York JFK

Air Canada said on December 8 that would operate three new US routes in summer 2023, connecting Montreal and Toronto with New York and adding Sacramento to its ex-Toronto destinations. The flag carrier said it would also restore 11 cross-border routes that were nixed during pandemic lockdowns and border closures, which included Vancouver-Boston and Calgary-Los Angeles connections. Around a dozen other Canada-US routes that already resumed would be expanded, Air Canada said. “We will operate more than 400 daily flights [to the US] on 95 routes to 47 destinations”, said chief executive Mark Galardo. Air Canada said the addition of