{"id":464745,"date":"2026-02-10T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464745\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:40:12","slug":"westjet-to-suspend-3-u-s-routes-from-vancouver-due-to-notable-decline-in-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464745\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet to suspend 3 U.S. routes from Vancouver due to \u2018notable decline\u2019 in demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>WestJet will suspend three routes from Vancouver to the United States this summer due to a \u201cnotable decline in transborder travel demand throughout 2025,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The company will suspend service between Vancouver and Boston, Vancouver and San Francisco and Vancouver and San Diego, starting in April, as part of their summer schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/westjet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WestJet<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see no indication that this trend will change in the foreseeable future and have made further reductions to our transborder network in 2026, including the suspension of service between Vancouver and Boston, San Francisco and San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'WestJet to reverse cramped seat configuration after widespread backlash'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SITE_WESTJET_FRI_.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:51<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWestJet to reverse cramped seat configuration after widespread backlash\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11659063\/donald-trump-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-comments\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-bad-bunny-superbowl.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump calls Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show \u2018a slap in the face\u2019 to U.S.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11659404\/air-canada-suspends-flights-cuba-feb-2026\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770684011_133_CP174878769.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAir Canada suspends all flights to Cuba, effective immediately\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WestJet says that demand for domestic, Latin America, Caribbean, transatlantic and transpacific destinations remains strong; therefore, it has increased capacity on routes Canadians want to fly, which includes flights between Vancouver and Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as travel between Canada and the U.S. remains down.<\/p>\n<p>Return trips to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11634636\/canada-united-states-travel-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">United States were down almost 24 per cent year-over-year<\/a>\u00a0in November, which continues a trend from the same month in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World Travel and Tourism Council said that the U.S. is projected to lose about $12.5 billion in international visitor spending in 2025, which is a massive number and the U.S. was the only country out of 184 in the study they did that had a decline in international visitor spending last year,\u201d travel expert Claire Newell told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size WestJet will suspend three routes from Vancouver to the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,189766,2845,49809],"class_list":["post-464745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cross-border-travel-canada","tag-u-s-news","tag-westjet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}