Air Canada drops Toronto-Jacksonville route

Air Canada has reportedly scaled back its winter operations by ending its flight route between Toronto and Jacksonville, Florida.

The move follows the airline's earlier decision, just a month prior, to cut service to other destinations.

According to the aviation analytics company Cirium, the airline will suspend operations between Toronto and Jacksonville from November 2025 through March 2026. The flights on the corridor will return next summer season.

According to Cirium, Air Canada had planned to operate daily winter-season flights between Toronto Pearson airport (YYZ) and Jacksonville International (JAX).

However, the airline has reportedly cancelled the route for the upcoming winter, likely due to lower-than-expected demand, reports Simple Flying.

It’s one of several cuts Air Canada—and other airlines—have made to their transborder routes.

In the spring, Air Canada cut flights to Washington, Houston, and Miami from Vancouver (YVR) as well as scrapped plans to launch a second flight between Montreal and San Francisco for the summer.

WestJet axed routes from Vancouver to Austin, Kelowna to Seattle, Winnipeg to Los Angeles and Edmonton to Atlanta in April.

Porter Airlines, meanwhile, has ended service between Toronto and San Diego and has cancelled a planned Montreal to Las Vegas route for the winter 2025-26 season.

The reductions have been attributed to low demand for cross-border travel, ongoing political tensions related to U.S. President Donald Trump’s global trade war and annexation threats, and difficulties in maintaining profitability during the winter season.

The number of Canadians visiting the United States continued to decline in May, according to Statistics Canada. 

Canadian-resident return trips by air fell 24.2 per cent that month compared with the same period in 2024. Additionally, return trips by automobile dropped 38.1 per cent—the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year declines, StatCan reports. 

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