Airlines are launching a wave of new winter-sun routes this week, with Porter Airlines, Qatar Airways and Breeze Airways all adding nonstops to warm-weather destinations.
Porter Airlines of Canada began Ottawa to Aruba on Saturday, November 7, three times a week, and will add Ottawa to Montego Bay on November 25, twice a week, Providenciales on December 17 and Los Cabos on December 18. From Edmonton, its first international routes, Porter began Puerto Vallarta on November 3, three times a week, and Phoenix on November 6, daily, with Los Cabos and Las Vegas both starting on November 16, four times a week each. All the routes use the 132-seat Embraer 195-E2.
Qatar Airways inaugurated twice-weekly flights from Doha to Bogotá and Caracas on November 4, on a Boeing 777-200LR, flight QR783, operating on Wednesdays and Sundays. The two cities are the airline’s 16th and 17th destinations in the Americas, and Qatar says its winter network now covers more than 170 destinations. It is the first Gulf airline to serve Venezuela, via Bogotá.
Breeze adds a brand-new market
Breeze Airways is launching 16 new nonstop routes between November 2026 and February 2027. Its Raleigh-Durham to Dayton service began on November 6, twice a week — a brand-new market, with no airline having flown the route nonstop before. Tampa to St Thomas starts on December 16, and Tampa to Cancun and Montego Bay both start on December 19.
Avelo Airlines is adding five new routes in November on Boeing 737-800s, including Lakeland to Aguadilla in Puerto Rico from November 18, twice a week, and New Haven to Aguadilla from November 19, three times a week, plus Concord to Orlando on November 18, Fort Myers on November 19 and Tampa on November 20.
Looking further ahead
United Airlines, announcing on November 3 for spring 2027, is adding five new routes from San Francisco from March 28, 2027, including Charleston, South Carolina, four times a week on a seasonal basis. TAP Air Portugal’s Lisbon to Orlando service is now flying three times a week on an Airbus A330, and LATAM plans São Paulo to Geneva from April 2027, three times a week on a Boeing 787-9.
For travellers, the new routes mean more nonstop choices to the Caribbean and Mexico this winter — and more competition on fares. Porter, Breeze and Avelo are all low-cost carriers, and their new routes are aimed squarely at leisure travellers heading south for the winter. With Black Friday travel deals already live, the new routes are arriving at the right time for anyone planning a winter escape.
