Air Canada postponed its Budapest relaunch due to Russian-Ukrainian war

Due to the geopolitical situation, Air Canada will not resume its flights between Toronto and Budapest this summer season. 

International tourism is back but Air Canada hesitates

Even though international tourism has shown some recovery, the Canadian airline was compelled to reorganise its plans for 2022 as a result of the recent events.

The current precarious situation, the Russian-Ukrainian war, will certainly affect the demand for travel in the Central European region, which is why the decision was made to postpone the resumption of the Toronto-Budapest seasonal flight until the summer of 2022.

In early February, the company announced that its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft would have flown to the Hungarian capital from Canada 3 times a week between May and October 2022, offering almost 1,000 seats a week in one direction during the high season, writes airportal.hu.

Planned return after 2019 halt

According to Air Canada, passengers who have already bought their tickets for the Toronto-Budapest route will be transferred to other partner airlines.

Air Cananda last flew to Budapest in 2019. There were scheduled flights for 2020 as well, but they were thwarted by the arrival of the first wave of the pandemic. It currently looks like there will be no Air Canada flights between Budapest and the North American country until 2023.