Add Swoop to the List of Canadian Carriers Serving Chicago

There’s a new Canadian airline in town. The town in question? Chicago. The airline? Swoop.

Per PR Newswire, As of today, 31 May, Swoop, the “low-cost Canadian carrier,” has inaugurated flights to Chicago O’Hare (ORD) from Toronto Pearson (YYZ).

Twice a week, that is on Mondays and Thursday, flight WO746 is scheduled to leave Toronto at 06:30, and arrive in Chicago at 07:20; for the return, WO747 is slated to leave Chicago at 08:10, and land in Toronto at 10:50.
Recall that there’s an hour time difference between the two.

Although Swoop prefers to call itself a ULCC — in other words, an ultra low-cost carrier — if you had a glance at those fees much of Canada charges, you might be confused by the terminology. An open secret in the world of travel hacks is that many Canadians, when flying to a U.S. destination, would cross the border to take a likely cheaper domestic flight. That’s why, at least pre-pandemic, airports like Buffalo BUF, Burlington BTV, and Bellingham BLI had brisk seasonal business to places such as Arizona and Florida.

Doing that is a chore, yes, but it might have saved some families quite a bit of scratch in the long-run. Now we’ll get to see if Swoop can, you know, swoop up that ambitious business.