Air Canada adds nonstop to Tenerife

Air Canada is opening flights to Tenerife that skip the usual Madrid or London connection and go straight from Canada to the Canary Islands. The airline says Toronto starts on October 25, 2026, Montréal starts on October 31, 2026, and both routes run in the winter 2026–27 season. (aircanada.com) That is unusual because Air Canada says these will be the only nonstop flights between North America and Tenerife. Aeroroutes shows the schedule at two weekly flights from Toronto and one weekly flight from Montréal to Tenerife South Airport. (aircanada.com) (aeroroutes.com) Tenerife sits in Spain’s Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa, so it has Europe’s legal and tourism infrastructure with winter weather that is much warmer than Toronto or Montréal. Tenerife South Airport is the island’s main international gateway for beach tourism. (britannica.com) (airwaysmag.com) The aircraft is the reason this route exists. Air Canada is using the Airbus A321 Extra Long Range, a single-aisle jet built to fly farther than older narrow-body planes, with a published range of about 4,700 nautical miles. (airbus.com) That matters on a route like Toronto to Tenerife because the trip is long enough to be awkward for older narrow-body aircraft but smaller than the kind of market that usually gets a giant twin-aisle jet every day. Simple Flying reports Toronto to Tenerife is about 3,135 nautical miles each way, which fits neatly inside the Airbus A321 Extra Long Range’s design range. (simpleflying.com) (airbus.com) Air Canada is also trying to make a small plane feel less like a small plane. The airline says its Airbus A321 Extra Long Range will have 182 seats, including 14 lie-flat seats in business class, which is the kind of bed-style seat travelers usually expect on much larger aircraft. (aircanada.com) The timing is not random. Air Canada announced Tenerife inside a broader winter sun expansion that also added places like Roatán, Santo Domingo, Mérida, and Mazatlán, which shows the airline is chasing cold-weather leisure demand when Canadians are most likely to pay for warm beaches. (aircanada.com) For travelers in the United States, the route is not nonstop from home, but it is still simpler than piecing together separate tickets through Europe. Upgraded Points notes that passengers from dozens of United States cities can connect through Toronto or Montréal onto the Tenerife flight on one airline network. (upgradedpoints.com) The bigger airline story is that new aircraft are opening places that used to be stuck between “too far” and “too niche.” Tenerife is a Spanish island with mass-market tourism demand, but until now it did not have enough North American traffic to justify a traditional long-haul setup, and the Airbus A321 Extra Long Range changes that math. (aircanada.com) (airbus.com)