Air Canada has brought the Hawaiian sun closer to Calgary with the launch of non-stop departures to both Maui and Honolulu. The Calgary to Hawaii flights save more than two and a half hours of trip time in each direction when compared to flying other routes. Air Canada's new Calgary-Hawaii flights are also timed for convenient connections to and from Edmonton and other points in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Toronto and across eastern Canada. This winter, AC offers up to five weekly flights from Calgary to Hawaii, with three flights a week to Maui and two flights weekly to Honolulu during the peak. The Calgary-Hawaii flights complement the carrier's 15 weekly peak winter flights from Vancouver to Hawaii.
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Air Transat has announced they are planning new, direct Québec City to Bordeaux and Merseilles flights and vacation packages (with Transat Holidays) for this coming summer.
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Porter Airlineshave launched a new route from Toronto City Airport to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. For tourism information on Myrtle Beach, call 1 866 458 0294 or www.VisitMyrtleBeach.com
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New from WestJet: Non-stop service between Montreal and Las Vegas five times per week and seasonal, twice weekly (until 1 May 2010) non-stop service between Vancouver and Lihue/Kauai, Hawaii, the only airline in Canada to provide service to all four islands, plus a new, seasonal non-stop service between Toronto and Cozumel, Mexico. WestJet has also unveiled its flight schedule for the summer of 2010, featuring five new routes and expanded service on 19 trans-border and international routes. The summer schedule also includes new non-stop service between Vancouver and Kitchener-Waterloo, Vancouver and San Francisco, Edmonton and Kamloops, Edmonton and San Francisco, and Toronto and Puerto Vallarta. Five Canadian cities will see seasonal routes become year-round, including: Vancouver to Los Angeles, Puerto Vallarta and Cancun; Edmonton to Cancun; Calgary to Phoenix, Palm Springs and Cancun; Toronto to Atlantic City, Miami, Puerto Plate, Bridgetown, Cayo Coco, Varadero, Turks and Caicos, St. Maarten, St. Lucia and Cancun; Montreal to Las Vegas and Cancun.
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