The National Post reports in its Thursday edition that Canadian resident return trips to the United States by air have increased for the first time in 34 months, according to the latest Statistics Canada data. The Post's Ellie Hutchings writes that the figures show that return trips to the U.S. by air edged up 0.6 per cent year-over-year in July to 567,000, marking the first increase since August, 2023. Combined with 2.2 million trips by automobile (a year-over-year increase of 12.6 per cent), total return trips to the U.S. by Canadian residents reached 2.8 million in July, up 10.1 per cent year-over-year. This marked a fourth consecutive month of year-over-year growth, following 15 consecutive months of decline. April, 2026, marked the first year-over-year increase in overall return trips from the U.S. since December, 2024, when return trips by car rose by 5.8 per cent compared with a year earlier. Although return trips by air had fallen 8.1 per cent, the figures meant overall Canadian-resident return trips from the U.S. rose by 1.4 per cent that month compared with April, 2025. Despite this recent shift in travel trends, Canadian resident return trips from the U.S. remained 25.6 per cent below their July, 2024, level.