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Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK
for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar
[April 18, 2026]
NEW YORK (AP) — Air
Canada will suspend service to New York's JFK International airport over
the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent
prices soaring.
Canada's flag carrier said Friday that service from Toronto and Montreal
to JFK will cease June 1 and resume Oct. 25. Service to the New York
metropolitan area's two other airports — LaGuardia and Newark — will
continue. Air Canada offers 34 flights a day to those two airports from
six Canadian cities. |
A worker fuels an Air Canada jet at DFW International Airport in
Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) |
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Air
Canada says it will reach out to customers who are impacted by
the suspension with alternate travel options.
“As jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the Iran
conflict and some lower profitability routes and flights are no
longer economic, and we are making schedule adjustments
accordingly,” a spokesman for the Montreal-based carrier said
Friday.
The average price for a gallon of jet fuel reached $4.32 on
Thursday, up from $2.50 the day before the war in Iran broke
out, according to Argus Media.
Oil prices dropped more than 10% Friday, after Iran said the
Strait of Hormuz is open again for commercial tankers carrying
oil from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide.
Fuel and labor costs are typically the largest annual expenses
for airlines. Delta Air said this month that the tab for higher
fuel would add $2 billion to its second-quarter costs. Airlines
including JetBlue and United Airlines are raising bag fees to
offset skyrocketing fuel costs. Other airlines, including
Lufthansa and KLM, have had to scale back service as jet fuel
costs render some routes unprofitable.
In an exclusive Associated Press interview Thursday,
International Energy Agency Director Fatih Birol said Europe has
“maybe six weeks” of remaining jet fuel supplies and said the
global economy faces its “largest energy crisis.”
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