Why are flights to U.S. from Canada increasing despite the enormous surge in COVID-19 cases?

The U.S. border is more open than advertised, and airlines are adding flights down. Tyson Fedor reports.

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38 comments

    1. Seems mexico is doing better then the states??? Did he say that 😳

    2. deaths will be millions very soon for USA, and Trump then will start on the body bags for kids in the classrooms.

    3. @TPC TreesPottingchic they already are with the 72 doses of toxic cocktails kids receive and most before the age 6

  1. Because we need more cases to try to validate the destruction of the economy all the borrowing massive unemployment /massive closer of business over a virus that kills less then the influenza going to have heads rolling by the end of this let me tell you!

    1. Nothing about this convid has been right…absolutely nothing. Thankfully, some are wising up to it.

    1. Your source? There are currently no non-stop flights between Wuhan (WUH) and Canada. However, eligible passengers from WUH can reach Canada via one-stop connections through various hubs like PEK, PVG, CAN & NRT or through two-stop connections via hubs like LHR, FRA, ICN, CDG, MUC, LAX, JFK.

  2. Opening flights to the worst hit country…but not to the uk? You screwed my 4 month commitment in england….so not impressed..

    1. Worst hit? You’re leaving a lot out eh, like population vs cases and deaths. Quit drinking the liberal kool aid

    1. @TPC TreesPottingchic I will, and I’ll recover just fine because I’m not 80+ with underlying health conditions.

    2. Don’t know what is underlying until you got it. Go ahead though. Take your chances with a pandemic level mutating virus. You can help thin the herd or you might infect someone you love who is more susceptible. Assuming, of course, you know what love is.

    3. @Tortuga Verde the virus doesnt infect and kill millions out protestering though or plp in walmarts , fast food joints , liquor stores ect..

    4. @Tortuga Verde fine.. don’t fly.. don’t go to the store.. don’t go out.. hide in the basement.
      Maybe we can go back to horse travel. Or screwing in trees.

    5. @TominBach or…I could just follow basic instructions, wear a mask, social distance, and not pretend there isn’t a pandemic because it hurts my feelings 😂

  3. The Canadian border never closed, we had more flights from hotspots epicenters etc since the beginning of the wuhan flu

  4. I am definitely not going to United States until the coronavirus there is put completely under control.

  5. Actually WestJet is already flying from Calgary (YYC) to Los Angeles (LAX), Las Vegas (LAS), Atlanta (ATL). Only WestJet’s Toronto (YYZ) – Cancun (CUN) route is starting in a few days.

  6. Maybe it was increasing because statistically, it was so low during the pandemic and now this is the pent up demand. At first I was thinking who is going there now?

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