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With the current Trump administration making deportations a centerpiece of its policy, tourism to the U.S. has also dropped steadily as many fear getting caught up in the anti-immigration crackdown.

A report from the research firm Tourism Economics predicts that the number of international visits to the U.S. will fall by 15.2% by the time the numbers for 2025 are calculated, while visitors from European countries like Spain and Slovenia have already dropped by more than 20%. Amid Trump’s trade war and references to the country as a “51st state,” air travel from Canada also fell by 14% in April and 24.2% in May.

Multiple airlines have, as a result, reworked their schedule to cut certain U.S. routes initially expected to do well during a busy 2025-2026 tourism season.

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Routes to Miami and Las Vegas scrapped as airline sees more potential in Thailand

Since the start of the spring, flagship carrier Air Canada (ACDVF) canceled flights between Toronto and Jacksonville, Vancouver to Washington and Houston, as well as Montréal and San Francisco in what Executive Vice President Mark Galardo classified as “the right move right now in this context.”

Main Canadian competitor WestJet had also cut routes from Vancouver to Austin, Kelowna to Seattle, Winnipeg to Los Angeles, and Edmonton to Atlanta in April.

In addition, Iceland-based low-cost airline Play will cancel all service to the U.S. by October and is instead focusing on building out a network of vacation flights to southern Europe.

Another major Nordic player in the low-cost airline space, Norse Atlantic Airways (NRSAF) , has spent the years immediately after its launch in 2021 building a network of flights between the East Coast of the U.S. and different European capitals, only to now scale back those plans.

As first reported by Ishrion Aviation, the Oslo-based airline will discontinue flights between London Gatwick Airport and Harry Reid International in Las Vegas as well to Miami International and from Oslo and Berlin by the coming winter.

The airline will instead redirect the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners (BA) used for those flights for new routes connecting Thailand to different Scandinavian cities — two flights from Stockholm to Bangkok and Phuket launching on Oct. 22 and Dec. 4, as well as a new flight from Oslo to Phuket that will begin on Dec. 8.

Norse Airways launched in 2021 with the goal of offering low-cost flights between Europe and the U.S.

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Even with airlines not commenting, the low demand is felt

An additional flight from London Gatwick to Bangkok is slated to start running on Oct. 26. Flights to London and Oslo from larger U.S. cities like New York and Los Angeles will continue throughout the year.

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Norse has not publicly commented on the choice to draw service away from the U.S. and is instead focusing all its statements on the new routes that it will launch.

While airlines generally avoid publicly commenting on or connecting politics to its route planning decisions, phrasing like “demand” often indicate that the popularity of certain countries has fallen.

“Norse Atlantic Airways continues to deliver a world-leading load factor and significant volume growth,” Norse founder and CEO Bjørn Tore Larsen said in a statement. “We maintain our good momentum into the upcoming busy summer months, where we will continue to deliver our affordable, value-for-money product to our customers worldwide.”