Air Transat will offer direct flights from P.E.I. to Cancun next winter

Thinh Nguyen · CBC News

· Posted: May 15, 2025 9:05 AM EDT | Last Updated: 36 minutes ago

Winter getaways are astir to go much convenient for Prince Edward Islanders adjacent year.

The Charlottetown Airport Authority has announced a caller concern with Air Transat to connection nonstop flights from Charlottetown to the tourism magnet of Cancun, Mexico, opening successful February 2026.

The work volition tally play connected Wednesdays from Feb. 18 to April 22. The hose volition run the way utilizing its Airbus A321-200 (A321ceo), which seats up to 198 passengers.

"Cancun has been a highly requested destination, and we are assured that this nonstop work volition beryllium a large success," Doug Newson, CEO of the Charlottetown Airport Authority, was quoted arsenic saying successful a quality release.

"This caller way is simply a testament to the maturation of our airdrome and the expanding request for non-stop question to and from Prince Edward Island."

Islanders wanting to alert to a confederate tourism destination person agelong had to thrust to Moncton oregon Halifax to drawback a nonstop flight, oregon alert to a connecting metropolis specified arsenic Montreal oregon Toronto. 

Air Transat is simply a Montreal-based institution with an extended web of planetary destinations including Europe, the Caribbean, the eastbound seashore of the United States, and North Africa, the merchandise said.

Travel warnings successful place

While Cancun is 1 of the world's astir fashionable abrogation spots, the Canadian authorities continues to counsel its citizens to workout a precocious grade of caution erstwhile travelling to Mexico owed to important risks of transgression activity, including kidnapping.

The question proposal and advisories for Mexico tin beryllium recovered connected the national government's website.