Air Canada has been dribbling out announcements that amount to a flurry of new routes out of Vancouver International Airport (YVR) starting next spring.
Canada’s national carrier is also planning to double its number of flights between YVR and London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR), to two from one, on a seasonal basis.
Dublin, Ireland is the latest city that Air Canada plans to service with non-stop flights out of YVR.
Air Canada announced November 25 that its Air Canada Rouge will fly non-stop flights three times per week between Vancouver and Dublin, starting June 10 and continuing until at least October 8.
These would be the only scheduled non-stop flights between YVR and Dublin Airport.
The news follows Air Canada’s announcement November 19 that it will fly daily non-stop flights, starting in spring 2016, between Vancouver and three new U.S. cities: Chicago, San Diego and San Jose.
Flights to San Jose International Airport launch first, on May 9, and it is the only new route that will be twice daily instead of simply daily.
Flights to San Diego International Airport then launch June 2, while flights to Chicago O’Hare International Airport follow two days later, on June 4.
All these flights are in addition to what will be the furthest new route out of Vancouver for Canada’s national airline.
On June 1, Air Canada plans to launch three non-stop flights per week year-round between Vancouver and Brisbane, Australia.
In July, when the airline first announced its YVR flights to Brisbane Airport, it had set a start date of June 16.
On October 30, it announced that it was bumping up the start date for those flights.
As for the increased frequency between YVR and LHR, those will start June 1 and continue until September 29, when frequency will revert back to once daily.
Airlines plan a series of new or enhanced routes at YVR:
March 15, 2015: Philippine Airlines ups its number of weekly flights between Manila and New York’s John F. Kennedy airport (with a stopover in Vancouver) to 11 from seven.
March 29, 2015: Air France launches thrice weekly, non-stop flights between Vancouver and Paris, with service rising to five times per week during summer months.
May 1, 2015: Air Canada Rouge launches service five times per week to Osaka, Japan’s Kansai International Airport.
June 26, 2015: China Eastern Airlines begins service three times per week between Vancouver and Kunming, China via Shanghai, China.
December 9, 2015: Aeromexico to begin daily non-stop flights between Vancouver and Mexico City.
January 1, 2016: WestJet plans to launch twice-weekly, non-stop flights between Vancouver and Orlando’s Orlando International Airport.
January 20, 2016: National Airlines plans to begin twice-weekly flights between Vancouver and Florida’s Orlando-Sanford International Airport.
May 1, 2016: British Airways plans to seasonally increase capacity on its route between Vancouver and London Heathrow Airport by using a larger plane on its existing daily non-stop flights.
May 6, 2016: WestJet plans to begin non-stop service six times per week between Vancouver and London Gatwick Airport
May 9, 2016: Air Canada plans to launch twice daily, non-stop service between Vancouver and San Jose.
June 4, 2016: Air Canada plans to launch daily, non-stop service between Vancouver and Chicago.
June 6, 2016: Air Canada plans to launch to begin daily, non-stop service between Vancouver and San Diego
June 10, 2016: Air Canada plans to begin seasonal, non-stop flights between Vancouver and Dublin.
June 17, 2016: Air Canada to launch non-stop flights three times per week between Vancouver and Brisbane.
