{"id":3560,"date":"2023-03-16T23:51:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T03:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/en\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2024-11-11T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:57:32","slug":"canadas-airline-industry-is-flying-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/blog\/canadas-airline-industry-is-flying-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s airline industry is flying high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if travel\u2019s restart wasn\u2019t enough of a story in 2022, Canada\u2019s airline industry took things up a notch this year with brand new carriers, big expansions and even news of a possible acquisition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweek.ca\/news\/canada-jetlines-takes-off-announces-new-ndc-direct-technology-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada Jetlines<\/a>\u00a0took off in 2022, after years of waiting, and to cheers from travel agents who can earn commission with the new carrier. Lynx Air got off the ground too.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweek.ca\/news\/ulcc-flair-is-well-on-track-for-50-aircraft-by-2025-says-ceo-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flair Airlines<\/a>\u00a0expects to have\u00a027 aircraft, and 28 cities (including seven in the U.S.), by summer 2023.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweek.ca\/news\/porter-adds-calgary-to-growing-list-of-new-destinations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Porter Airlines<\/a>\u00a0is making good on its own expansion plans, with new 2023 flights to Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton all announced in recent days, and plenty more routes and destinations on the way, including more in the U.S. plus sun spots in Mexico and the Caribbean. Meanwhile Air Canada, Air Canada Rouge, WestJet, Swoop, Sunwing and Transat are all ramping up capacity too, as Canadians rediscover the joys of travel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweek.ca\/news\/more-carriers-and-unprecedented-expansion-canadas-airline-industry-is-flying-high\/\">All details on Travelweek.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if travel\u2019s restart wasn\u2019t enough of a story in 2022, Canada\u2019s airline industry took things up a notch this year with brand new carriers, big expansions and even news of a possible acquisition. Canada Jetlines\u00a0took off in 2022, after years of waiting, and to cheers from travel agents who can earn commission with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-events-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.april-fortier.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}