During the upcoming summer season, which spans from March 30 to October 25 according to IATA slot seasons, a total of 50 airports in the US and Canada– including Saint Pierre in the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon–will offer non-stop passenger flights to Europe. Data from OAG reveals that these airports will collectively account for 146,706 European take-offs during this period, averaging around 699 daily departures.
The focus here is on the ten airports with the fewest flights to Europe this summer. These airports will collectively contribute just one in every 145 non- stop departures, totaling 1,015 take-offs.
The list includes three Canadian airports, six U.S. airports, and Saint Pierre. Notably, Saint Pierre offers a limited service via Air Saint Pierre to Paris CDG using a Boeing 737-700 wet-leased from ASL Airlines. If excluding Saint Pierre, Quebec City replaces it with its tally of178 one-way flights to Europe.
Quebec City has seen changes since losing Air Transat’s London Gatwick link in August2024; however, increased services by the Canadian leisure carrier to Paris CDG have resulted in more European flights this summer.
Here are the details for each airport:
– **Saint Pierre:** Air Saint Pierre operates weekly flights between June24 and September9.
– **Hamilton:** PLAY Airlines ends its service on April22.
– **Fort Myers:** Discover Airlines flies twice-weekly from Frankfurt.
– **Anchorage:** Condor operates mainly thrice-weekly from May17-September13; Discover flies twice-weekly between June4-September20.
– **St Louis:** Lufthansa operates three weekly flights from Frankfurt.
– **Indianapolis:** Aer Lingus begins a new route with four weekly flights starting May3.
– **New Orleans:** British Airways operates five weekly flights plus an additional flight on March30.
– **Edmonton:** KLM flies four to five times weekly from Amsterdam.
-**St John’s:” WestJet resumes routes starting May22
“Cleveland:” Aer Lingus operates four to five weekly flights
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