Flair Airlines Launches Tucson Non-Stops to 5 Canadian Cities

AZ – Canadian low-cost carrier Flair Airlines launched its new nonstop flights from Tucson International Airport on Wednesday with the first of its twice-weekly flights to Edmonton and Fort McMurray, Alberta. Flair also is launching once-weekly nonstops this week between TIA and Prince George, British Columbia, and London and Windsor, Ontario. A planned nonstop to Lethbridge, Alberta, was dropped due to a lack of needed equipment at the airport.

Flair’s Tucson nonstops — except for Edmonton, the only flights to a U.S. city for the other five Canadian airports — are expected to provide warm refuge from the cold and a shot in the arm for local tourism. As detailed below, Edmonton and Fort McMurray were the first two of five Canada-Tucson routes that Flair will begin in the next few days. A sixth route, Lethbridge-Tucson, was also to start, but it has been removed from its Flair’s website. Windsor might pick up some Detroit passengers.

In 2019, in both Canada and Mexico, Tucson’s largest unserved international markets were Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico City, Cancun, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta. Again, this is based only on those who flew to/from Tucson, not those who flew to Phoenix and traveled overland. For context, Toronto, and Vancouver, with 12,000+ roundtrip passengers, each had more than four times the passengers than Flair’s Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Windsor, Prince George, and London routes combined. Will they ever have nonstop flights to the southern Arizona city?