The flag carrier of Canada, Air Canada (AC), has announced significant expansions to its European summer 2025 schedule.
The airline is adding a new nonstop service between Montreal and Edinburgh while increasing capacity to Paris, Athens, and Rome.
According to the announcement, Air Canada is boosting its European network with nearly 1,300 additional weekly seats to Paris and Athens and extending its peak Toronto (YYZ) to Rome schedule through October 2025. These enhancements reflect anticipated strong demand for transatlantic travel in the upcoming summer season.
With regards to Greece, two additional weekly flights to Athens will operate from Toronto on Tuesdays and Fridays. Notably, Air Canada is extending these additional frequencies until October, extending the traditional summer season. The airline will offer up to 10 weekly flights from both Toronto and Montreal to the Greek capital.
Meanwhile, for summer 2025, Air Canada will add extra daily frequencies from Toronto to Indianapolis, Boston, Tampa and Dallas-Fort Worth. From Montreal, an extra daily flight will be added to Denver, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham, as well as an increase in service to Tampa to daily from three times a week in summer 2025. Air Canada continues to be the largest carrier serving the transborder market and will offer customers more than 200 daily flights to over 45 destinations in summer 2025.
The carrier will also bolster capacity in Summer 2025 to key Asian markets. Air Canada will resume summer seasonal service to Seoul from Montreal and to Osaka from Toronto on Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Both launched in Summer 2024; these services provide a convenient, non-stop option for customers traveling between the East Coast of North America and the Asia-Pacific region.
In the summer 2025 peak, Air Canada will offer over 100,000 weekly seats to Europe and North Africa, and over 160,000 to the United States, to provide more options for travelers to explore both sides of the Atlantic. Combined with a global network that spans over 145 compelling destinations across six continents and a leading partnership portfolio of over 150 air and intermodal partners, whether from Vancouver to Stockholm or Halifax to Athens, Air Canada offers excellent connectivity to facilitate travel around the world. In Canada alone, Air Canada will offer more flights than any other carrier, with more than 75,000 daily seats and 600 daily flights to 50 airports across the country.
