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Aéroports de Montréal is pleased to announce the new destinations
and services that will be available out of Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport for the
2009-2010 winter season.
Altogether, travellers will have a choice this winter of 105 destinations served by non-stop flights from
Montréal–Trudeau. Antigua, the Honduran island of Roatan, Fort Myers (Florida) and Houston
(Texas) are the main additions since last year. With greater flight frequencies and changes in aircraft,
the number of seats available will be 5% higher than in the winter of 2008-2009. It is important to note
that schedules are subject to change.
International sector
In the international sector, Air Canada will continue to serve Geneva (Switzerland) with four flights a
week, and Fort-de-France (Martinique) with one weekly flight. These destinations were both launched
last summer. In addition, starting this December 19, Air Canada’s will add Samana, (Dominican
Republic) and Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) to its schedule, with one flight a week to each destination.
Air France will maintain three daily flights to Paris–Charles de Gaulle airport, providing total capacity
of about 850 seats a day, up 20% from last winter.
Starting in December, Air Transat will offer five new sun destinations this winter, namely Antigua as
well as Cartagena (Colombia), Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic),
and the Turks and Caicos Islands, each with one flight weekly.
Sunwing will add two new winter destinations: Roatan (Honduras), and Panama City (Panama), and it
will continue its weekly flights to Port-au-Prince (Haiti). Sunwing becomes the first airline to serve
Roatan, a Caribbean island renowned for its scuba diving, out of Montréal–Trudeau.
SkyService will operate two new weekly flights to Montego Bay (Jamaica), starting December 18,
while WestJet will be serving Cancun (Mexico), with a twice-weekly service as of this December 9.
AeroMexico, which began serving Montréal–Trudeau in April 2009, will double its operations
between Montréal and Mexico City starting in January 2010. The four weekly flights will all be
operated with 121-seat B737 aircraft.
Transborder and domestic sectors
Regarding flights to the United States, Air Canada will be launching a new daily service between
Montréal and Houston (Texas) this November 30 using 75-seat CRJ705 aircraft. This new service fits
in well with Montréal–Trudeau’s aim of becoming an even busier hub. On December 6, Canada’s
national airline will also inaugurate a weekly flight to Fort Myers (Florida) using a 120-seat A319
aircraft.
WestJet will be serving Las Vegas from Montréal–Trudeau for the first time, with five flights a week
starting this December 17. The flights will be operated with 119-seat B737 aircraft.
Finally, Porter Airlines will increase its capacity by 50% on the Montréal–Toronto Island route with an
average of 11 daily flights, all using Q400 aircraft.
About Aéroports de Montréal
Aéroports de Montréal is the local airport administration in charge of managing, operating and
developing the Montréal-Trudeau and Montréal-Mirabel international airports under a lease signed
with Transport Canada in 1992. The corporation employs 600 people, spread among the two airport
sites and the head office.
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