TORONTO — The night of the U.S. presidential ********, the Canadian Immigration website crashed due to a ***** in people – seemingly Americans – trying to access information on how to emigrate to the country. And now, with ************ confirmed as the new President of the United States, Cheapflights.com has reported a huge increase in searches for one-way flights to Canada during ******** night as well.
According to the company, as of 6 p.m. ET on ******** Day, the website experienced more than double the searches for one-way flights to Canada, a 133% increase from the same time frame across the previous four Tuesdays.
As polls closed and results started to roll in, the searches accelerated, jumping to more than 900% between 6 p.m. and midnight. And things didn’t slow down the morning after; searches from 6 p.m. until 8 a.m. the morning after were up more than 1,000% over the average volume in the same window over the last four weeks.
Other destinations that saw spikes in one-way flight searches throughout the course of the night were Japan, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, South Africa and Germany, all of which jumped more than 500% between midnight and 8 a.m. ET compared to the previous four weeks.
In other news, Travelweekly has reported that Royal Jordanian Airlines is poking fun at President-Elect ***** with a new tongue-in-cheek campaign that encourages passengers to “travel to the U.S. while you’re still allowed to!” ***** has continually promised to ban Muslims from entering the country during his run for the presidency. Jordan is a predominantly Sunni ****** nation.