Air Transat relaunches 'significant number of routes' for summer

Air Transat unveiled its summer schedule on Monday, relaunching "a significant" number of routes to Europe and the United States as COVID-19 restrictions ease and demand ramps up. The Montreal-based airline and tour operator said it is seeing high demand for travel ahead of the busy summer season. "The outlook for the summer season is favourable, and our abundant air offering, which includes the vast majority of our pre-pandemic destinations as well as exciting new routes, is enabling us to respond to the significant pent-up demand," Transat's chief sales and marketing officer Joseph Adamo said. "This surge in demand has also allowed us to increase capacity on certain key routes between now and the end of the winter season." Transat said it will gradually resume flights to 25 European destinations, including the six it currently flies to, starting in April. The airline will fly to 16 destinations from Montreal, 15 from Toronto and two from Quebec City. The airline will also expand its service to the US, flying to California for the first time since the carrier launched. Transat also said it will begin operating flights to from Montreal to Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Toronto to Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, and Quebec City to Fort Lauderdale on a year-round basis given "the unfaltering popularity of Florida."<br/>