The Canadian list
Skyscanner's Canadian edition of its 2027 travel trends report names ten destinations, with the year-on-year rise in return flight searches for each: Cardiff, United Kingdom, 1,046%; St. George's, Grenada, 156%; Tivat, Montenegro, 149%; Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 139%; Penticton, Canada, 137%; Salzburg, Austria, 119%; Bergen, Norway, 119%; Olbia, Italy, 117%; Podgorica, Montenegro, 116%; and Tofino, Canada, 83%. Skyscanner describes Olbia as the gateway to Sardinia and presents it as an island alternative to Italy's big cities.
Olbia across Skyscanner's editions
Each national edition of the report publishes its own top ten. We checked four. The United States edition ranks Olbia third, with searches up 143%, as we reported earlier. The Canadian edition ranks it eighth at 117%. The British edition does not include Olbia; its only Italian entry is Trapani, fourth at 95%. The Australian edition has no Italian destination at all. We could not retrieve the German, Dutch or Irish pages.
The two lists that include Olbia are both North American. That fits the direct flights now arriving from that side of the Atlantic. Delta flew New York JFK to Olbia seasonally from May 2026, and United has announced a Newark to Olbia service from 27 May 2027, three times a week on a Boeing 767-300ER.
A note on the numbers
These are searches, not bookings or arrivals. The percentages compare return flight searches made between 1 January and 17 June 2026 with the same period of 2025, and Skyscanner does not publish the underlying volumes, so a large rise can come from a small base; Cardiff's 1,046% is the obvious example. Skyscanner also says destinations were "selected for travel suitability" after the search data was assessed, so the order is not a pure ranking of growth. The percentages from different editions measure different markets and should not be compared as if they were one series.
Sources: Skyscanner Canada, Travel Trends 2027 · Skyscanner United States, Travel Trends 2027 · Skyscanner United Kingdom, Travel Trends 2027 · Skyscanner Australia, Travel Trends 2027 · Victoria Buzz, 21 October 2026 · The Flight Club, 25 August 2026 · La Nuova Sardegna, 11 March 2026
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Elsewhere on Sardinia Blog: United's Newark to Olbia route for summer 2027; why Ryanair is cutting its winter flying at Olbia; and how foreign overnight stays grew to August 2026.
Sardinia Blog is published within the Rental12 ecosystem, an owner-operator letting homes it owns in Olbia and Golfo Aranci rather than a property manager acting for other owners. Its own account of preparing for American guests on the JFK route and its press archive are company statements, not independent evidence.