Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar

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Source: AP

Updated 2:50 PM EDT, April 17, 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.

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.

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[Initech]

1. Oh my god, we cannot fire the fucking asshole fast enough!

[dave99]

2. a double tsp to the skull would be preferable

[IronLionZion]

3. MAGA will claim victory by keeping Canadians out

[Justice matters.]

5. MAGA will buy all the World Cup tickets to compensate

the fact that nobody from outside the USA will travel there and risk of getting abducted by iceholes to get thrown into their concentration camps.

Oh, and the Olympics in 2028... will team USA compete only against "itself" (?)

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. The mostly empty planes didn't help either

[Beringia]

6. Boy, that is going to make Canadian fliers fit to be tied

[ck4829]

7. Oh my.