The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that as patriotic sentiment continues to drive down U.S. travel demand, Canadian airlines slashed flight capacity to the U.S. by 10 per cent in the first quarter of the year. The Globe's Mariya Postelnyak and Jason Kirby writes that and Air Canada and WestJet have since reduced available seats and sometimes scrapped entire routes as rising fuel costs offered even more incentive to do so. WestJet alone reduced its June schedule by 279 flights, or 25,769 seats. Air Canada announced it was temporarily cancelling its flights to and from New York's JFK on routes to Toronto and Montreal starting in June. It also suspended service between Salt Lake City and Toronto starting at the end of June. Las Vegas saw the biggest percentage change in seat capacity from Canada between 2024 and 2026, down about 35 per cent (221,545 seats). Canadians make up the largest portion of foreign visitors to Vegas - and still did last year, despite a more than 17-per-cent drop in visitors. The city has rolled out the welcome mat to lure back Canadians, with cash-bleeding casinos and hotels sometimes offering northern visitors the option to pay on par with the U.S. greenback.