Canadian airline WestJet is cutting routes to the U.S., citing falling demand.
In a statement to AirlineGeeks, the carrier said it will suspend service on over a dozen crossborder routes.
They are:
- Atlanta to Edmonton
- Nashville, Tennessee, to Edmonton
- Nashville to Winnipeg
- Orlando, Florida, to Edmonton
- Seattle to Kelowna
- San Francisco to Edmonton
- Nashville to Vancouver
- Boston to Vancouver
- Los Angeles to Toronto
- Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, to Calgary
- San Diego to Vancouver
- Seattle to Edmonton
- Tampa, Florida, to Vancouver
- Atlanta to Winnipeg
- Orlando to Halifax
- San Francisco to Vancouver
“We saw a notable decline in transborder travel demand throughout 2025,” the airline said. “As a result, we made timely decisions to modify our network to stay aligned with where Canadians want to go, reducing our full year transborder flying by close to 10 per cent, with a 15 per cent reduction in what were historically peak travel times for the U.S. We see no indication that this trend will change in the foreseeable future and have made further reductions to our transborder network in 2026…”
Demand for domestic, Latin American, Caribbean, transatlantic, and transpacific destinations remains strong, however, and WestJet is redeploying its capacity to serve those routes, officials said.
The carrier announced Monday that it is launching four new nonstop domestic routes for the summer and expanding east-west connectivity on existing routes.
