It turns out slapping tariffs on your biggest trading partner and provoking a diplomatic brawl isn’t great for business — or for booking flights. Commercial air travel between the United States and Canada has nosedived into oblivion, with new data revealing a catastrophic 75.7% plunge in flight bookings as tensions between the two neighbors escalate under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau’s unraveling Liberal Party.
According to new data from aviation analytics company OAG, the once-busy U.S.-Canada air corridor has become a ghost town. A comparison of ticket bookings for April through September shows the kind of collapse usually reserved for pandemic travel bans, not peacetime allies.
In March 2024, Americans and Canadians booked over 1.2 million flights for travel in April. This year? That number sits at just under 296,000. That’s not a dip. That’s a crater. A whopping 75.7% drop in bookings for April alone — and similar numbers are being projected for the months to follow.
The Biden-era media might rush to blame Trump’s tariffs, but let’s not forget who started this mess: Justin Trudeau, the walking embodiment of globalist failure, decided to slap retaliatory tariffs on $155 billion of U.S. goods and even threatened to choke off energy exports to American states like Michigan and New York.
This all came after President Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian goods to pressure Ottawa into cracking down on the northbound flow of fentanyl — which, by the way, is a perfectly reasonable demand. Trudeau, desperate to distract from his sinking approval ratings and failing policies, turned the spat into a political soapbox, hoping to revive his moribund Liberal Party. And now, thanks to his flailing theatrics, the skies are empty and the border’s gone cold.
Airlines have already slashed flights between the two countries by 3.5%, and if this nosedive in demand holds, industry insiders say carriers will need to “radically overhaul” their flight schedules. Translation: hundreds of pilots, flight attendants, and ground crew may soon be out of work. Why? Because Trudeau’s ego couldn’t handle a stern negotiation from Trump.
This isn’t just about travel. Historically, the U.S. and Canada have enjoyed one of the busiest and most amicable air travel relationships in the world — driven by cross-border business, tourism, and countless families who live on opposite sides of the border. But Trudeau’s stubbornness and anti-American posturing have thrown a wrench into that legacy.
And just when it looked like Canadians might rescue themselves from Trudeau’s stranglehold, the Conservative Party of Canada — led by the once-promising Pierre Poilievre — is losing steam. The man who once looked poised to sweep Trudeau out of office is now slipping in the polls, as globalist darling Mark Carney takes the reins of the Liberal Party. Carney, a former Goldman Sachs banker turned Trudeau clone, has already warned that Trump “wants to break us so America will own us.”
No, Mark. What Trump wants is a secure border, fair trade, and an end to subsidizing a neighbor who’s been coasting off U.S. defense guarantees and trade concessions for decades. If that’s “breaking” Canada, maybe it was already broken.
Let’s be clear: this freefall in travel bookings isn’t a fluke — it’s a referendum on Trudeau’s failed diplomacy. Americans don’t want to travel to a country that slanders them, taxes them, and can’t even keep its border drug-free. And Canadian travelers? They’re increasingly trapped by an economy in decline, run by a PM who seems more concerned about pronouns than productivity.
If Canada wants to restore travel, trade, and trust, it’ll have to start by dumping the failed leadership of the Liberal Party. Until then, President Trump will continue doing what he does best: putting America first — and making sure we’re no longer footing the bill for globalist freeloaders.
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