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A year after U.S. President Donald Trump began threatening Canada with tariffs, Canadians still appear to be shunning travel to the south.
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Air traffic to the United States fell 10.2 per cent in February from the same month in 2025, marking the 13th consecutive month of year-over-year declines, according to Statistics Canada’s airport screening data released Tuesday.
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The agency said one million screened passengers travelled south of the border via Canadian airports in February, “continuing a notable change in travel patterns amid trade tensions with the United States.”
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“Indeed, transborder counts for February 2026 were well below (-12.0 per cent) the same month in 2024, before such tensions,” the report said.
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StatCan said people flying to the U.S. accounted for 24.2 per cent of the total number of passengers in February, which is down 27.2 per cent from February 2025.
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All eight of Canada’s largest airports posted year-over-year declines in transborder traffic that month, with a concentration at the four largest airports — Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary — which account for more than 90 per cent of all such traffic.
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To compare, outside of the U.S., there were 1.4 million international flight passengers in February, 5.1 per cent higher than the year before.
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Domestic traffic continued to be strong, reaching 1.8 million that month, up 5.3 per cent year over year with all eight largest airports posting increases.
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Overall, 4.2 million passengers were screened at Canada’s eight largest airports, up one per cent from a year ago.
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