Air Canada soars to shock location: New route set for lift-off this June
Air Canada Boeing 787-8 C-GHQQ departure.
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Get your passports prepared and pack these suitcases, as a result of Air Canada is gearing as much as whisk travellers between an iconic Portuguese metropolis and Montreal with a brand-new route taking off on June 4. The airline, clearly not content material with sitting on the tarmac, will lay on 4 weekly flights between Porto and Montreal proper by till late September – it’s a summer season fling to recollect!
Canada is looking
Air Canada’s Gross sales Supervisor in Portugal, Raquel Serra Pinto, informed Publituris that the airline is ‘optimistic about summer season 2025 operations in Portugal and different EU markets’. And with good purpose! Portugal is quick turning into a runaway hit for Canadians, who clearly can’t get sufficient of the solar, sea, and obscenely scrumptious pasteis de nata.
In actual fact, Canada was Portugal’s tenth greatest exterior market in in a single day stays in 2023, with an eye-popping 2.7% share – the kind of determine that’ll have airline execs dancing within the aisles. In the meantime, it ranks ninth in variety of company (3.3% share), proving that Portugal’s a prime choose when Canadians fancy a vacation.
Including routes sooner than you possibly can say ‘bag drop’
In addition to the Porto-Montreal route, Air Canada’s additionally rolling out new providers from Toronto to Naples and Toronto to Prague beginning in Could (three flights every week, for these needing an Italian or Czech repair). The airline’s already a dab hand at connecting Lisbon with Toronto and Montreal, and it boosted capability in 2024 to maintain tempo with what Pinto calls ‘the numerous demand for Portugal from the Canadian market’.
Previous success, future take-off
No marvel everybody’s giddy: Canadian company soared to 593.8 thousand in 2023, racking up a staggering 1,472.0 thousand in a single day stays, up a whopping 56.9% on the earlier 12 months! If that’s not sufficient to make you poutine your vacation plans, we don’t know what’s.
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