Air Transat, which has no scheduled itineraries to the United States beyond June in 2026, has reapplied for authorization to fly to the US.
In a Department of Transportation (DOT) filing on February 26, Air Transat requested the Department to renew its authority to continue flights to the US. The Canadian carrier’s current exemption approval will expire on March 21.
The request includes scheduled flights from Canada to the US, as well as charter operations.
Air Transat will end flying to the US in 2026 on June 13, operating its last flight from Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL), according to Cirium’s Diio Mi.
However, while there have been reports that Air Transat would completely exit the US market last week, the Canadian carrier has still scheduled a single weekly departure between YUL and San Juan Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU) in January 2027.
The YUL-SJU itinerary was also present in last week’s schedules. In a statement to the Montreal Gazette, an Air Transat spokesperson confirmed that the airline will decide later in the year whether to resume flying to and from the US.
For the Canadian airline, US-bound flying has never been a major part of its network. In 2025, of the 13.1 billion scheduled available seat kilometers (ASKs), around 398 million, or only 3%, were scheduled to the US.
Since 2020, Air Transat’s weekly departures to the US peaked in February and March 2024, when the carrier had 38 weekly departures on 10 routes during both months. Since then, the airline had fewer and fewer weekly departures to the US, except for another peak in February and March 2025.
Rytis Beresnevicius
