AC's inaugural Toronto-Cartagena flight touches down

Air Canada's inaugural flight from Toronto to Cartagena departed yesterday (Dec. 18), marking the airline's newest destination in the carrier's ongoing international expansion.

"We are very pleased to add Cartagena to our global route network," said Benjamin Smith, President – Passenger Airlines at Air Canada. "Air Canada is continuing its strategic international expansion with a diverse range of exciting new non-stop routes this winter to Australia, South America, the Caribbean and the United States. We recently welcomed customers onboard new services from Toronto to St. Vincent and to Belize, Montreal to Lima, Vancouver to Melbourne and to Yellowknife, and we are looking forward to our new flights from Vancouver to Orlando, and Ottawa to Puerto Plata launching before the end of the year." In 2017, Air Canada launched several new international flights, including:

• Toronto to: Mumbai, Berlin, Reykjavik, St. Vincent, Belize City and Cartagena
• Montreal to: Shanghai, Marseille, Reykjavik, Tel Aviv, Algiers and Lima
• Vancouver to: Melbourne, Taipei, Nagoya, Frankfurt and London Gatwick

In 2018, Air Canada will launch new international services from

• Toronto to: Shannon (Ireland), Porto, Zagreb, Bucharest and Buenos Aires
• Montreal to: Tokyo-Narita, Dublin, Bucharest, Lisbon Tel Aviv
• Vancouver to: Paris and Zurich