Starting December 18 and through April 25, 2020, an Air Transat Airbus A321LR will connect Vancouver, Canada to San José and Liberia in Costa Rica.

Tickets went on sale starting June 6 and will be offered twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays, leaving Vancouver at 6:30 a.m. and arriving to Liberia, Guanacaste at 5:25 p.m. making an 80 minute stop at the Juan Santamaría Airport in San José. The Airbus will then continue its route directly to Vancouver leaving Liberia at 6:40 p.m. and arriving in Canada at 12:20 a.m. the following day.

¨This opens a new stage in the coordinated operation of both international airports, the Juan Santamaría and Daniel Oduber¨, commented Minister of Tourism María Amalia Revelo. ¨The fact that Air Transat becomes the second airine that offers a triangle flight between these two airports is an opportunity to multiply the visitation, generate employment and continue strenghtening Costa Rica as a tourism destination¨. added Revelo.

The flight that begins in Vancouver, Canada can be concluded with the same ticket either in San José or Guanacaste, and in the same way a traveler can return to Vancouver directly from Liberia with the same boarding pass or board in San José.

Air Transat operates weekly flights to the Juan Santamaría Airport originating from the cities of Montreal (Monday and Friday) and Toronto (Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday) and to the Daniel Oduber Airport in Liberia it flies three times a week from Toronto (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and twice a week to Montreal (Wednesday and Friday).

In 2018 a total 217,006 tourists arrived from Canada, 92% of which arrived by air . Canada represents 7% of the total number of arrivals and 14% of the arrivals from North America.

Canadian tourists prefer to travel to Costa Rica between the months of December through March, during the winter months in the North American country. The average stay is of 14 nights and each person spends an average of $109.84 a day.