MONTREAL — Last night marked the successful launch of **********’s nonstop, seasonal Montreal service to ********, which will operate twice weekly until Oct. 16, 2017.

Flight AC082 departed at 6:00 p.m. from Montreal-Trudeau airport on June 22 onboard a 292-seat airbus A330-300 aircraft featuring three cabins of service, including **********’s International Business Class. Flights are timed for convenient connections with **********’s extensive domestic and transborder network.

“********** is the leader in the Canada-****** market, which we have served for 22 years. Today we are pleased to launch a new seasonal non-stop service between Montreal and ********, which will also offer convenient connections throughout Canada and the U.S. and complement our existing daily year-round flights from Toronto,” said Benjamin Smith, President, Passenger Airlines at **********.

Smith also noted that the new service reflects **********’s ongoing international expansion strategy; since the beginning of the year, the ******* has launched new services from Montreal to Shanghai, **********, Reykjavik, Dallas and Washington Dulles, with Algiers scheduled on July 1.

Ron Huldai, Mayor of ********, was on site to commemorate the launch. On his city’s **** appeal, he said: “******** is a rare city that enjoys two major assets that usually do not exist in the same destination. First, it is a great beach city. With 14 kilometers of beach and 300 days of sun, National Geographic named it ‘One of the Top Ten Beach Cities in the *****’. Secondly, it is an extremely vibrant urban center. The New York Times calls us ‘The Capital of Mediterranean Cool’ thanks to 1748 bars and pubs; amazing art; high culture and street culture; and one of the best culinary scenes in the *****. We are eager to see many tourists from Quebec enjoying ********.”