Air Transat returning to St. Martin, Puerto Rico this winter

The return of flights to St. Martin and Puerto Rico plus an expanded Europe offering are among the highlights of Air Transat’s winter flight program for 2018-19.

The program will also offer a total of 34 sun destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America as well as Florida. Flights to St. Martin and Puerto Rico, which serve as embarkation ports for Transat’s all-in-one cruise packages, will be offered from both Toronto and Montreal.

“Air Transat continually strives to offer travellers more destinations and more flexibility, which is why we are significantly boosting frequency on our domestic routes, the vast majority of which will allow travellers to make connections to a larger number of South and Europe destinations,” said Annick Guérard, Transat’s chief operating officer. “Winter 2018–2019 also marks the start of a transitional period in our operations, namely our fleet upgrades, which will see us introduce gradually this winter the shorter-range Airbus A321s, and then later, in May 2019, the newer A321neo LR. Once completed, these changes will mean an even better-performing Air Transat fleet, thanks notably to this aircraft’s great versatility and the impressive flexibility that it offers in terms of flight frequency.”

Details of the program include:

• Extra flights to Cancún, Mexico, will be added, departing from Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec City. Vancouver residents will enjoy daily connections to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and more flights to the Pacific resort destination will be available to travellers departing from Edmonton.
• The Dominican Republic is also prominent in the program, with flights added out of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax to Punta Cana.
• Air Transat is boosting its direct flights to Fort Lauderdale from Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax, as well as to Tampa out of Toronto. From major Canadian cities, a total of 29 weekly flights will be offered to Florida. Transat offers several all-in-one cruise package itineraries sailing from Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and Miami.
• With an increased interest in Costa Rica as a tourism destination, Air Transat has responded to demand by adding more direct flights from Toronto to San José and Liberia.
• The carrier is also boosting its number of direct flights from Montreal to Cartageña, Colombia, and Fort-de-France, Martinique.
• In Europe, Air Transat is increasing capacity on its Lisbon and Porto routes out of both Toronto and Montreal, as well as to Málaga, Spain out of Montreal. Air Transat also remains dedicated to offering Canadians year-round travel to Europe, with its popular daily direct flights from Montreal to Paris, France, and from Toronto to London in the UK, as well as frequent flights to Manchester and Glasgow.

This winter, Air Transat is enriching its program of domestic flights, connecting many of Canada’s largest cities and opening up a wider choice of Sun and transatlantic destinations to travellers in those markets. The carrier is strongly developing its offer in Western Canada’s largest cities (Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton) to Toronto and Montreal, which significantly increases the number of South and Europe destinations available as well as the number of flights departing Western Canada.

There will also be more flights between Montreal and Toronto, providing more flexibility to passengers looking to travel to a larger number of European destinations.