The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Air Canada is again scaling back flights to the United States amid high jet-fuel costs and lower demand for trips south of the border. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says the country's largest carrier is halting or delaying eight transborder routes starting this fall. Three routes from Toronto and Montreal to cities in America's Midwest will be cancelled for the second winter in a row, while three seasonal routes from Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City to Florida will start in December rather than October. Two previously suspended routes from Montreal and Toronto to New York's JFK airport also will not be returning this winter. Air Canada, WestJet and Air Transat all made cuts to their summer flight capacity to the U.S. earlier this year as the war in Iran sent jet fuel prices soaring, rendering some routes unprofitable. Preliminary figures from Statistics Canada show that the number of Canadians returning by air from the U.S. fell 28 per cent to fewer than 462,000 between May, 2024, and this past May. The airline aims to beef up its presence in New York with up to five daily flights between Toronto's Billy Bishop airport and LaGuardia this winter.