It's working: Airline Bookings Between Canada and U.S. Down 76% from 2024

By Tom Parkin

April 1st, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

Flight sales collapse as Canadians boycott travel to Trump’s country and hear stories of American officials harassing and detaining Canadians.

Annexation threats from U.S. President Donald Trump and stories of detainment by American police and border officers are causing a collapse in airline flight bookings between Canada and the United States, according to travel data company OAG, a UK-based airline travel data aggregator.

OAG reports airline ticket purchases made by mid-March 2025 for flights between Canadian and U.S. airports in April 2025 are down almost 76 per cent from the number made by mid-March 2024 for April 2024.

By mid-March 2024 there were 1,218,570 airline seats booked for travel between Canadian and U.S. locations in April 2024.

As of mid-March 2025, only 295,982 seats are booked for Canada-U.S. travel this April, according to OAG.

Bookings by mid-March this year for travel in May and the summer months are also over 70 per cent down from levels in mid-March 2024.

Canadian airlines cutting U.S. flights, redeploying planes to Europe

But bigger changes to flight schedules could still be coming if ticket sales for flights in the summer, traditionally the busiest time for travel between Canada and the United States, continue at such low levels.

The downturn in travel between Canada and the U.S. may also be ending the Amtrack rail service between Seattle and Vancouver. The company last week suddenly cancelled the service citing maintenance problems with the aging trainsets plying in the route.

But while previous Amtrack press releases had announced new equipment was coming to the route starting in 2026, last weeks’ notice of service suspension made no mention of a return to service next year with new equipment.