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WestJet is dropping flights between Canadian airports and 10 U.S. cities after a significant decline in demand last year.
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The reductions in scheduled service include five routes out of Vancouver International Airport — to Tampa, Nashville, Boston, San Diego and San Francisco.
“We saw a notable decline in transborder travel demand throughout 2025,” said WestJet spokesperson Julia Kaiser.
“As a result, we made timely decisions to modify our network to stay aligned with where Canadians want to go, reducing our full year transborder flying by close to 10 per cent, with a 15 per cent reduction in what were historically peak travel times for the U.S.”
The cancelled routes, listed alphabetically, are:
• Calgary–Raleigh-Durham
• Edmonton–Atlanta
• Edmonton-Nashville
• Edmonton–Orlando
• Edmonton–San Francisco
• Edmonton–Seattle
• Halifax–Orlando
• Kelowna–Seattle
• Toronto–Los Angeles
• Vancouver–Boston
• Vancouver–Nashville
• Vancouver– San Diego
• Vancouver–San Francisco
• Vancouver–Tampa
• Winnipeg–Atlanta
• Winnipeg–Nashville
Kaiser said there is “no indication that this (downward) trend will change in the foreseeable future” so the suspension of these flights is expected through 2026.
“Demand for domestic, Latin American, Caribbean, trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific destinations remains strong,” she said, so WestJet is redeploying some of its fleet to places Canadians want to go.
That includes four new domestic summer routes announced Monday:
• Calgary–Campbell River, daily starting May 15
• Calgary–North Bay, twice weekly starting June 19
• Calgary–Sault Ste. Marie, twice weekly starting June 12
• Edmonton–Terrace, twice weekly starting May 19
Meanwhile, Air Canada, WestJet and, most recently, Air Transat are winding down service to Cuba because of a shortage of aviation fuel on the island.
The airlines plan to run planes without passengers to the island to pick up customers already in the country and bring them home. Air Canada customers travelling out of Toronto and Montreal are affected, as the airline doesn’t currently have vacation packages out of Vancouver.
Similarly, WestJet plans to ferry empty planes to Cuba to bring vacationers home, all with enough fuel to safely return without relying on local fuel. Air Canada plans to send tankers full of fuel to the island and will make stops as needed to refuel for return journeys.
