Air Canada will suspend some flight routes due to fuel costs
An airline spokesperson said the conflict in Iran has caused jet fuel prices to double
Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental policy organization, said earlier this week that Europe has “maybe six weeks or so of jet fuel left,” as a result of ongoing military conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel. Birol called it “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced.”
Today, that shortage creeps closer to home, with Air Canada announcing it will pause flights from Toronto and Montreal to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Passengers can still fly to LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport from Toronto and Montreal, as well as from other Canadian cities. The temporary route suspension is a cost-saving measure for the time being.
“As we regularly do, we monitor and review our network to ensure that routes are meeting profitability targets,” an Air Canada spokesperson told Global News.
“As jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the Iran conflict and some lower profitability routes and flights are no longer economic, we are making schedule adjustments accordingly.”
The suspension will begin on June 1, and extend until October 25.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
