Air Canada won’t be getting into markets within the former Yugoslavia, regardless of earlier indications of rising curiosity within the area. The airline has unveiled its summer season 2026 enlargement plans, which as a substitute deal with new routes elsewhere in Europe. From subsequent yr, Air Canada will launch flights from Toronto to Budapest and Palma de Mallorca, in addition to from Montreal to Catania. As well as, the Star Alliance member will deploy its new Airbus A321XLR plane on transatlantic companies from Montreal to Toulouse and Edinburgh, alongside the newly introduced Palma service.
Air Canada’s leisure subsidiary, Air Canada Rouge, discontinued its seasonal Toronto–Zagreb service following the coronavirus pandemic, after retiring its wide-body Boeing 767 fleet. In 2022, the father or mother airline deliberate to take over the route, scheduling three weekly summer season flights with its 297-seat Airbus A330-300. Nonetheless, ticket gross sales have been halted simply weeks after their launch, and the service by no means materialised. In whole, Air Canada had deliberate 54 rotations in every route, providing 32,076 seats between the 2 cities. Zagreb stays linked to Toronto on a seasonal foundation by Air Transat.
Air Canada has beforehand famous it was “trying into flights between Toronto and Belgrade”. Nonetheless, regardless of the liberal nature of the revised bilateral Air Service Settlement between Canada and Serbia, the deal features a restrictive clause limiting designated flag carriers to only two weekly flights, until in any other case mutually agreed. On the similar time, Air Serbia has indicated it’s evaluating Toronto as a part of its deliberate North American enlargement, suggesting the route might be launched on a seasonal foundation.
