As Canada’s national airline and the main way that many people from all over the world fly into the country, Air Canada has significantly reworked its network since the start of the year to reflect shifting demand patterns, the security situation in the Middle East, and the high cost of jet fuel.
The airline’s route between Toronto Pearson and Dubai International remains suspended until March 2027 while a seasonal flight between Montréal and Houari Boumediene Airport in Algiers will not return in 2027.
The airline has also significantly trimmed its India network to cut flights between Calgary and Delhi and Toronto and Mumbai.
Air Canada to pull out of Singapore market in January 2027
One more major route that Air Canada will stop running early next year is the 14-hour flight between Vancouver International (YVR) and Singapore Changi Airport (SIN). In the other direction back to Vancouver, the flight takes 16 hours and 45 minutes.
The flight that ran five times a week on a 298-passenger Boeing 787-9 plane will fly for the last time on January 24, 2027.
The route was launched in April 2024 to fill a market left when Singapore Airlines cut the same route in 2023 over low traffic numbers. At the time, this marked Air Canada’s return to Singapore 33 years after it cut its route to the city-state from Toronto in 1991.
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At 12,818 kilometers or 7,964 miles, the Vancouver-Singapore flight is also currently the longest flight operated by Air Canada.
“The route regrettably did not meet business targets”: Air Canada on cut Vancouver-Singapore flight
A spokesperson for the airline named fuel costs relative to the traffic numbers brought in as the primary reason the route was not a viable investment going forward.
“Despite significant efforts and resources invested in the Vancouver-Singapore route for close to three years by Air Canada and other partners, the route regrettably did not meet the business targets that would enable this service to remain sustainable,” the spokesperson said in a statement earlier in the year.
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The spokesperson added that the cancelation, which was first announced last September, was chosen “far enough into the future to protect the majority of our customers”; anyone with a flight booked beyond that date should have already been contacted by an airline representative with rebooking and refund options. Those whose fare class would otherwise not allow for refunds to the original method of payment are also entitled to receive one instead of an alternative flight as the cancelation resulted from the airline’s choice to change its network.
As Air Canada has not been flying to Singapore from any other destinations, the cancelations of the Vancouver route means an exit from the market and the country altogether. Those traveling to Singapore from Canada will, after the flight is cut, need to go either through an Asian hub like Tokyo or Hong Kong or a U.S. city like Los Angeles or San Francisco on United or Delta.
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