Air Canada increases London to Edmonton flights

Edmonton Festival City is a hot destination… even throughout the cooler months. Air Canada has announced that it will be increasing its non-stop winter flights between the London Heathrow and Edmonton International airports to 7 days a week.

Air Canada – Canada’s largest airline – is the first carrier to introduce this daily year-round non-stop service between the two destinations. This has increased from three times weekly since the carrier launched the route last December, and daily since April 1 for the spring and summer months.

With the VIA Rail Snow Train running between Edmonton and Jasper National Park – the largest and most northerly Canadian rocky mountain national park – skiers and other winter travel enthusiast will be able to enjoy more flexibility when planning their Alberta getaway. Visitors can travel between Edmonton and Jasper aboard The Canadian three times a week and take advantage of some of the best ski hills and resorts in the Canadian Rockies.

As a global player on the festival scene – and Canada’s leader – Edmonton and its surrounding regions play host to a wide variety of festivals with more than 30 held on an annual basis that celebrate arts, culture and sports. Upcoming festivals for this winter include:

- Global Visions Film Festival 2007: November 1 - 4, 2007
- Farmfair International 2007: November 2 - 10, 2007
- Canadian Finals Rodeo 2007: November 7 - 11, 2007
- Bright Nights Winter Family Festival: November 24, 2007 - January 06, 2008
- Festival of Trees: November 29 - December 02, 2007
- New Years Eve Downtown: December 31, 2007
- Ice on Whyte: January 18 - 28, 2008
- Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival 2008: February 8 - 9, 2008
- Silver Skate Festival 2008: February 16 - 17, 2008

Edmonton and neighbouring communities together comprise a metropolitan region that is home to 1.04 million residents. It is the capital of the province of Alberta, Canada’s sixth-largest city, and has the longest stretch of urban parkland in Canada, which is 22 times larger than New York’s Central Park and eight times larger than Vancouver’s Stanley Park.

From the thriving arts and culture scene in Edmonton – Canada’s Cultural Capital for 2007 – to the beautiful surroundings in Jasper National Park, Air Canada guests traveling from London Heathrow have something to get excited about!

For more information visit:

Aircanada.com
Edmonton.com
Festivalcity.ca
Jaspercanadianrockies.com
TravelAlberta.com