The airline said Tuesday that it will connect Montreal and Berlin; Montreal and Nantes, France; Toronto and Ponta Delgada in the Azores; and Halifax and Brussels during the summer of 2026. Air Canada is also resuming its Montreal-Tel Aviv route next summer.

Air Canada will operate the Montreal-Berlin route with an Airbus A321XLR and the Montreal-Tel Aviv service with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The other routes will use unspecified narrowbody jets, the carrier said.

All five flights are available for booking now.

“From Canada to Berlin, Ponta Delgada, Nantes, and Brussels, we are strategically increasing new non-stop routes across Europe to bring convenient access to key destinations, while strengthening economic ties and supporting tourism,” Mark Galardo, Air Canada’s executive vice president, COO, and president of cargo, said in a statement. “With these additions, Air Canada will offer North America’s second largest transatlantic network by destinations next summer.”

Air Canada previously announced new summertime routes from Montreal to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and Catania, Italy, and from Toronto to Shanghai and Budapest.

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The union has pushed for better pay and conditions.

The statement also referred to a promise by new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu not to ram his austerity budget through parliament without a vote, seen as a key concession to the opposition.

No other details were provided.

French air traffic controllers had initially planned to stage a strike in September and had later pushed it back to October.

The union has called for “a profound change in the management of operations”, complaining of “mistrust, punitive practices and humiliating management methods”.

On Friday, Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, said Europe’s worst performing air traffic controllers were in France, Spain, Germany, the UK, and Greece.

“Their governments refuse to ensure their ATC services are properly staffed and managed,” the airline said in a statement.

In early July, French air traffic controllers staged a strike that brought chaos to European skies. Then, flights booked by hundreds of thousands of people were cancelled at the start of the summer vacation period.

The industrial action in July was launched by smaller unions, while the SNCTA abstained.

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