Air Canada drops winter flights to US tourist destination

No flying south this winter.Air Canada has axed its once-popular winter route between Toronto and Jacksonville, Florida, adding to a change in flight plans the airline has made in recent years to accommodate a shift in travel demand.Trips aboard the Great White North’s flagship carrier between Toronto Pearson International and Jacksonville International will be suspended beginning in November, TheStreet.com reported.The flights between “YYZ” and “JAX” will return for the spring and summer demand in March 2026.“If we can derisk this a little bit and move and be a bit proactive and move capacity into other sectors [where] we see strength, I think that’s the right move right now in this context,” Air Canada executive vice president of revenue Mark Galardo told investors in March, according to the outlet.Air Canada is the only airline that currently operates direct flights to the northeast corner of Florida from Hogtown.The two-and-a-half-hour-plus flight is flown aboard a Bombardier CRJ 900 operated by Jazz Aviation, an Air Canada subsidiary.The plane can seat up to 76 passengers, according to aviation news outlet Simple Flying.Demand from loyal Air Canada travelers to “Jax” dropped as trade relations between the US and Canada grew rocky, the outlet reported.The back-and-forth trade rift took another turn Monday when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped a plan to enforce a new digital service tax on American tech firms.The about-face came after President Trump blasted the “foolish” move as a “direct and blatant attack” on the United States.

Trump ripped the tax and quickly vowed to set a new tariff rate on Canadian goods within the next week, threatening to upend US-Canada relations once again.“We have just been informed that Canada … has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Frida...