“We’re proud of our continued work with Air Canada to provide customers with even greater transborder connectivity, including adding more flights and new direct service to Calgary and Vancouver from Washington Dulles.” Vancouver, Calgary and Washington flights Patrick Quayle, Senior Vice President of Global Network Planning and Alliances at United Airlines also noted the new routes, saying: “Our coordinated schedules will provide business travelers with the convenience of hourly service and the additional comfort of a business cabin on all flights between Toronto and New York and Chicago, as well as Vancouver and San Francisco.” “Together we will offer more than 260 daily departures to the U.S, and new non-stop flights from Vancouver and Calgary to Washington-Dulles,” said Mark Galardo, Senior Vice President Network Planning and Revenue Management at Air Canada. In 2019, the U.S.-Canada transborder market was the second largest international passenger air transportation market in the world and the largest international market for both Canada and the U.S., as measured by seats.

transborder market, to give more flight options and better flight schedules to customers traveling between the two countries.Īir Canada and United are also founding members of Star Alliance and a transatlantic joint business agreement with the Lufthansa Group. In July 2022, Air Canada and United announced a joint business agreement for the Canada-U.S. Under the two airlines’ enhanced transborder joint business agreement, the scheduling will also include a new United-operated flight between Washington-Dulles and Calgary and a new Air Canada-operated flight between Washington-Dulles and Vancouver.

Indeed, on some routes, the jets have since been swapped out for the larger Boeing 737 MAX 8, or were simply temporary stand-ins for other aircraft, such as the Embraer 175.Air Canada and United Airlines will offer over 80 transborder codeshare routes and more than 260 daily flights between Canada and the U.S. The list below should not be used as a guide for booking flights.

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