Canadian airline WestJet is dramatically reducing again on flights to the U.S.
The Calgary, Alberta-based provider is not going to resume seasonal flights to North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham Worldwide Airport (RDU) — one of many 16 routes it’s reducing, schedule knowledge from aviation analytics agency Cirium reveals. WestJet confirmed the route cuts.
Many of the affected routes have been seasonal ones that ended final 12 months however have been beforehand set to renew this summer season.
The canceled routes embody:
- Calgary Worldwide Airport (YYC) to RDU, ended October 2025
- Edmonton Worldwide Airport (YEG) in Alberta to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL), led to January 2026
- YEG to Nashville Worldwide Airport (BNA), ended October 2025
- YEG to Orlando Worldwide Airport (MCO), ends April 2026
- YEG to San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO), ended October 2025
- YEG to Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA), ended October 2025
- Halifax Stanfield Worldwide Airport (YHZ) in Nova Scotia to MCO, ended October 2025
- Kelowna Worldwide Airport (YLW) in British Columbia to SEA, ends April 2026
- Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) to Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX), ended October 2025
- Vancouver Worldwide Airport (YVR) to Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS), ended Oct. 2025
- YVR to BNA, ended October 2025
- YVR to San Diego Worldwide Airport (SAN), ended October 2025
- YVR to SFO, ended October 2025
- YVR to Tampa Worldwide Airport (TPA), ended October 2025
- Winnipeg Richardson Worldwide Airport (YWG) in Manitoba to ATL, ends April 2026
- YWG to BNA, ended October 2025
With the cuts, WestJet will fly 13% fewer seats to U.S. locations this 12 months than it did in 2025, Cirium knowledge reveals.
“We noticed a notable decline in transborder journey demand all through 2025,” a WestJet spokesperson mentioned. “Because of this, we made well timed choices to change our community to remain aligned with the place Canadians wish to go.”
The spokesperson added that WestJet sees “no indication that this development will change within the foreseeable future.”
The flight reductions come as fewer Canadians journey to the U.S. In the course of the first 11 months of 2025, the variety of vacationers arriving from Canada by air fell 12.5% 12 months over 12 months to 7.8 million, the newest knowledge from the Worldwide Commerce Administration reveals.
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Heightened political tensions between the U.S. and Canada, together with tariff threats by President Donald Trump, have soured some Canadians on journey to the nation’s southern neighbor.
Mark Galardo, the chief business officer of Air Canada, informed TPG in October that the airline noticed a slowdown amongst leisure vacationers to the U.S. however no change in enterprise journey demand.
Air Canada is notably increasing to the U.S. this 12 months, together with by way of its first-ever transborder nonstops from Toronto’s downtown Billy Bishop Toronto Metropolis Airport (YTZ). Flights to New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) from YTZ start in March.
A slowdown in leisure journey however not enterprise journey matches with WestJet’s cuts. The airports the place seats are scheduled to fall probably the most in absolute phrases are Las Vegas’ Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS) and MCO — two of the biggest leisure markets within the U.S.
WestJet can be making vital cuts at ATL, the place its fairness associate Delta Air Traces is predicated. The airline’s seats to Delta’s largest hub will lower by 24% 12 months over 12 months, or 54,276 seats, Cirium knowledge reveals.
Delta owns a 13% stake in WestJet, and the airways have a business partnership that features reciprocal loyalty and elite advantages.
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