{"id":483472,"date":"2026-02-18T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483472\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:42:12","slug":"air-canada-quietly-removes-montreal-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483472\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada Quietly Removes Montr\u00e9al\u2013Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelpulse.ca\/bio\/natasha-lair-mckenty\" title=\"Natasha Lair-McKenty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Natasha-Lair-McKenty.jpg\" alt=\"Natasha Lair-McKenty\" title=\"Natasha Lair-McKenty\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author-image w-80 w-48\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Air Canada seems to have quietly cancelled its planned seasonal nonstop flights between Montr\u00e9al\u2013Trudeau International Airport (YUL) and Seattle\u2013Tacoma International Airport (SEA) for the upcoming summer travel season, according to industry reporting by <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-canada-cancels-seasonal-flights-montreal-seattle-2-months-before-resumption\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Flying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes without a formal announcement from the airline and just two months before the service was scheduled to resume.<\/p>\n<p>The Montr\u00e9al\u2013Seattle flights traditionally operate only in the summer. However, as of mid-February schedules, the flights no longer appear in Air Canada\u2019s booking system, a development first flagged by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IshrionA\/status\/2023560091220508843?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\">aviation observers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Industry watchers say this removal amounts to a cancellation of the seasonal service, despite the absence of notice on Air Canada\u2019s official channels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelpulse.ca\/news\/airlines-airports\/airlines-respond-to-canada-s-waning-interest-in-us-travel\" ek-link=\"true\" title=\"Airlines Respond to Canada\u2019s Waning Interest in US Travel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Airlines Respond to Canada\u2019s Waning Interest in US Travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision reflects a broader recalibration of North American airline networks, with several carriers trimming transborder routes amid shifting demand patterns.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Canadian airlines have pared back flights to secondary U.S. markets, while others reassess their U.S. schedules in the face of softer demand for cross-border leisure and business travel.<\/p>\n<p>For passengers who had anticipated flying the YUL\u2013SEA route this summer, options may now require connections through other hubs, or alternate carriers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        Topics From This Article to Explore&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air Canada seems to have quietly cancelled its planned seasonal nonstop flights between Montr\u00e9al\u2013Trudeau International Airport (YUL) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[35408,23684,53089,176676,49,48,195162,29814,83049,176679,2338,195163,1671,900,176677,127286,176675],"class_list":["post-483472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-aeroplan","tag-air-canada","tag-air-travel","tag-airlines-and-airports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-us-transborder-travel","tag-destinations","tag-domestic-travel","tag-homepage-top-stories","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-pierre-elliott-trudeau-international-airport-yul","tag-north-america","tag-travel","tag-travel-advisor","tag-travel-trends","tag-travelpulse-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483472","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=483472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}