WestJet has suspended three routes from Vancouver to america on account of a “notable decline in transborder journey demand all through 2025,” the group mentioned.
The corporate has suspended service between Vancouver and Boston, Vancouver and San Francisco and Vancouver and San Diego.
“We made well timed selections to switch our community to remain aligned with the place Canadians need to go, lowering our full-year transborder flying by near 10 per cent, with a 15 per cent discount in what have been traditionally peak journey instances for the U.S.,” WestJet mentioned in a press release.
“We see no indication that this development will change within the foreseeable future and have made additional reductions to our transborder community in 2026, together with the suspension of service between Vancouver and Boston, San Francisco and San Diego.”
WestJet says that demand for home, Latin America, Caribbean, transatlantic and transpacific locations stays robust; due to this fact, it has elevated capability on routes Canadians need to fly, which incorporates flights between Vancouver and Halifax.
The transfer comes as journey between Canada and the U.S. stays down.
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Return journeys to the United States have been down virtually 24 per cent year-over-year in November, which continues a development from the identical month in 2024.
“The World Journey and Tourism Council mentioned that the U.S. is projected to lose about $12.5 billion in worldwide customer spending in 2025, which is a large quantity and the U.S. was the one nation out of 184 within the examine they did that had a decline in worldwide customer spending final 12 months,” journey knowledgeable Claire Newell instructed World Information.
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