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Air Cana­da is set to re­launch its Toron­to-Port of Spain route on May 2, one year af­ter abrupt­ly can­celling plans to re­sume fly­ing to T&T. How­ev­er, in a change from its ini­tial an­nounce­ment, the air­line will now op­er­ate three week­ly year-round flights in­stead of four. The Cana­di­an car­ri­er plans to op­er­ate non­stop overnight flights on Mon­days, Fri­days, and Sun­days out of Toron­to. The ser­vice will use Boe­ing 737 Max 8 air­craft from Air Cana­da’s main­line fleet, with 169 seats (16 busi­ness, 153 econ­o­my) - adding over 4,000 seats to the mar­ket.

Luis Nor­ie­ga, Air Cana­da’s Latam and Caribbean sales di­rec­tor, told Guardian Me­dia at a news con­fer­enceat the Hilton Trinidad, that the de­ci­sion to re­turn is the cul­mi­na­tion of plan­ning that be­gan last year.

“Our de­ci­sion to fly to Port of Spain is not re­lat­ed to [the cur­rent] geopo­lit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion. We ac­tu­al­ly de­cid­ed to come here last year, and we've been work­ing on mak­ing this route suc­cess­ful by its own mer­its. As you know we did it up un­til 2020 and it was a very suc­cess­ful route,” said Nor­ie­ga.