Major Canadian airline quietly drops service from Toronto to U.S. city

A major Canadian airline has quietly removed its direct flight service between Toronto and a west coast U.S. city, as demand for cross-border travel continues to soften. 

Calgary-headquartered carrier WestJet cut nearly a dozen transborder routes for summer 2026, including a seasonal nonstop service between Pearson Airport and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). 

According to aviation outlet Simple Flying, the Toronto to L.A. route was among 11 U.S. routes that had flights scheduled by WestJet this summer, but have since been removed from the airline's schedule. 

The daily service was previously operated by the Boeing 737 Max 8 during the busy summer travel season. Over the past few decades, the airline's history on the route has been intermittent, with service until 2004, between 2007 and 2008, and most recently from 2016 through 2025. 

Although WestJet won't be an option anymore when booking tickets to L.A., nonstop options from Toronto will still be available through Air Canada and Porter. 

In total, WestJet is removing nearly a dozen routes between Canada and the U.S. as transborder travel demand weakens, including: 

• Calgary to Raleigh/Durham 
• Edmonton to Chicago
• Edmonton to San Francisco
• Edmonton to Seattle
• Halifax to Orlando
• Toronto to Los Angeles 
• Vancouver to Boston
• Vancouver to Nashville
• Vancouver to San Diego
• Vancouver to San Francisco
• Winnipeg to Nashville 

WestJet isn't the only airline scaling back in 2026. Last year, multiple aviation outlets reported that American Airlines was preparing to end its daily service between John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York and Pearson Airport after just two years of operation. 

The carrier launched the route back in January 2023 and offered up to two daily flights, but is set to officially end the service in May.