Halifax Stanfield International Airport Developments

[JonToms]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

My sister and brother-in-law lived in Bermuda for about five years. It can get a tad chilly there at that time of year. Not cold. Just chilly. Mid teens. Not perfect beach weather,

Perhaps this is why.

Yes it is a bit cooler in Bermuda at that time of year so that certainly could be a factor. Just speculation on my part but I suspect it also has something to do with all their expansion into Belize and Turks and Caicos. They only have four aircraft at present with one more on the way so they could just be redeploying them. They have also cut the YUL and YYZ to BDA flights in half from two to one flight per week for YUL and four to two flights per week for YYZ.

[JonToms]

Simple Flying Article on the Major Growth of European Routes at YHZ

This is a good article on the major increase in European flights at YHZ for Q3. They speak about the over 40% increase for Q3. The only piece they miss is that they say Edelweiss is arriving in YHZ for the first time whereas it is actually their second season operating their twice weekly flight to ZRH.

https://simpleflying.com/halifax-airport-transatlantic-growth/

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Edelweiss’ Halifax–Zurich is now served on an Airbus A350-900. Parked next to Discover Airlines A330-300 Halifax-Frankfurt service.


https://www.facebook.com/hfxstanfield

[JonToms]

HIAA Predicts 4.4 Million Passengers in 2026

This is a Saltwire article talking about HIAA route development and predictions on the airport reaching 4.4 million passengers in 2026.

https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/hal...rt-atlantic-canadas-gateway-to-the-world

[JonToms]

Pascan Aviation Cancelling YHZ - YSJ Flights

It looks like Pascan Aviation are cancelling their YHZ - YSJ flights. I haven’t seen an official announcement yet but in trying to do a booking on their website for this route, the last available date to book is June 26, 2026.

[JonToms]

Halifax Stanfield International Airport April 2026 Passenger Statistics

Halifax Stanfield International Airport

April 2026

Passenger Statistics Summary
April
Actuals / Percentage Change
Sector / 2026 / 2025 / 2019 / vs 2025 / vs 2019
Domestic / 255,201 / 235,174 / 263,569 / 8.5% / (3.2%)
Other International / 41,533 / 61,037 / 46,140 / (32.0%) / (10.0%)
Transborder / 21,432 / 30,929 / 40,059 / (30.7%) / (46.5%)
Total / 318,166 / 327,140 / 349,768 / (2.7%) / (9.0%)

Year-to-Date
Actuals / Percentage Change
Sector / 2026 / 2025 / 2019 / vs 2025 / vs 2019
Domestic / 867,977 / 804,221 / 914,063 / 7.9% / (5.0%)
Other International / 153,755 / 183,303 / 139,353 / (16.1%) / 10.3%
Transborder / 80,884 / 122,319 / 124,751 / (33.9%) / (35.2%)
Total / 1,102,616 / 1,109,843 / 1,178,167 / (0.7%) / (6.4%)

Transborder traffic continues to be hard hit by the severe reduction in flights to both MCO and TPA on both Porter Airlines and Air Canada.

International numbers continue to be hard hit by the cancellation of all Cuba flights on Air Transat, WestJet and Air Canada due to the lack of fuel in the country.

Once again domestic traffic had a healthy increase of 8.5% over April 2025.

May 2026 should have more positive stats for HIAA over 2025 as most of the transborder and international flights that were cut in February, March and April 2026 would have already ended by the end of April 2025. Thus the transborder and international flight numbers in May 2026 should be more similar to the numbers in 2025.