Air Transat officials at Routes Americas 2025.
Canadian carrier Air Transat has confirmed plans to expand service to Martinique as part of its summer 2025 schedule, which includes several new routes.
Speaking at Routes Americas 2025, Selva Veragou, senior director of network planning and strategy, said Air Transat will extend its Montreal–Fort-de-France route through the summer months. The service, which currently operates four times per week during the winter, will continue with once-weekly flights during the summer.
“It's our continued objective to reduce seasonality and continue serving routes with stable leisure and VFR demand,” Veragou told Aviation Week. “We’ve seen steady demand between Canada and Martinique, and this service allows us to strengthen the ties between Canada and Antilles.”
Valerie Cesarine, commercial director at Martinique International Airport, welcomed the service expansion. “Securing year-round commitment from a key player in the region is a vote of confidence,” she said. “We’ve seen healthy two-way demand for leisure, business and VFR travelers, so this will benefit both destinations.”
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The planned expansion of service to Martinique comes as part of Air Transat’s summer 2025 schedule, which will offer more than 275 weekly nonstop flights to over 40 destinations from Montreal, Toronto and Quebec. The program includes new Montreal-Valencia and Toronto-Berlin routes using Airbus A321LR aircraft.
“We’re continuing to push the boundaries of the A321LR,” Veragou said. “Toronto-Berlin will become our longest A321LR route [at 4,038 mi.], which will allow us to penetrate the German market and strengthen our joint venture with Porter Airlines.”
Operations to Berlin will be twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays from June 19 through Oct. 24. According to Sabre Market Intelligence data, Berlin was the largest unserved market in Europe from Toronto in 2023, with approximately 36,000 two-way passengers traveling indirectly between the cities during the year.
As well as capturing this traffic, Air Transat will also offer connections via Toronto Pearson International Airport to destinations including Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal and Vancouver through its partnership with Porter.
Asked what other new destinations the airline is evaluating, Veragou said the carrier continues to target unserved and underserved thin long-haul routes using the A321LRs. Air Transat received its first A321LR in 2019 and currently has 19 in its fleet.
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