Canadian Airlines Report Drop In Bookings To US

NBC News reports:

As tariff threats hovered last month, Air Canada told investors it was pre-emptively reducing March capacity to Las Vegas and other leisure destinations in Florida and Arizona that are typically popular with Canadian travelers. A spokesperson for the airline said this week that the situation remains “very fluid” and declined to comment further.

The CEO of Calgary-based WestJet told Canada’s CTV News in mid-February that it was already seeing a “very significant” 25% drop in Canadians’ U.S. travel demand since Trump’s tariff announcements. That shift in bookings has continued, a WestJet spokesperson said this week, with Mexican and Caribbean destinations benefiting from falling interest in American ones.

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