Cheap flights to Ottawa
Flights to Ottawa in 2021
Flight route prices based on searches on Cheapflights within the last 3 days, monthly prices based on aggregated historical data.
| Popular in | August | High demand for flights, 16% potential price rise |
| Cheapest in | October | Best time to find cheap flights, 5% potential price drop |
| Average price | 2,619﷼ | Average for return flights in October 2021 |
| Return from | 4,374﷼ | From Doha Hamad Intl to Ottawa |
Ottawa 2021 flight deals
Cheap flights to Ottawa found for this year
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Can I fly to Ottawa from Qatar right now?
Most visitors from Qatar need to provide a negative COVID-19 test result and/or quarantine to enter Ottawa.
COVID-19 testing requirements
Visitors from Qatar must present a negative RT-PCR (NAAT) test taken 72 hours before departing to Ottawa.
Quarantine requirements
Visitors from Qatar are not required to quarantine after entering Ottawa.
Documents
Compassionate entry for travellers and limited release from quarantine - Foreign nationals traveling without an advance written approval for an exemption of a border restriction may be denied entry into Canada.
Can I fly back to Qatar from Ottawa?
COVID-19 testing requirements
Visitors from Ottawa must present a negative RT-PCR (NAAT) test taken 72 hours before departing to Qatar.
Quarantine requirements
Visitors from Ottawa are not required to quarantine after entering Qatar.
Which day is cheapest to fly to Ottawa?
The cheapest day to fly to Ottawa is usually Tuesday. At the moment, Friday is the most expensive.
What time of day is cheapest to fly to Ottawa?
At the moment, flights at midday are likely to offer the best value for money for your Ottawa trip. A flight in the evening will more often than not be of higher cost.
Ottawa overview
Ottawa is Canada’s fourth-largest city, selected as the capital by Queen Victoria in 1857. The city is located on the Ontario side of the Ottawa river, opposite the French-speaking city of Hull and less than an hour’s drive from the border with the US. Ottawa itself is bilingual, with most residents speaking both English and French.
The city is home to the country’s parliament – housed in three spectacular gothic buildings perched atop Parliament Hill on the Westside of the Rideau Canal – and something of a cultural centre.
Museums, galleries and theatres abound, including the National Gallery, the Museum of Civilisation and the National Libraries.
Lying on the confluence of three rivers (the Ottawa, Gatineau, and Rideau), it is also one of the greenest cities in Canada, with many public parks and spaces as well as easily accessible surrounding countryside.
Its compact size makes it all the more appealing for visitors as most attractions are within easy walking distance.
Getting around Ottawa
Public transport in Ottawa is provided by OC Transpo (buses and the light rail O-Train). Driving is pretty easy and parking spots are freely available. Ottawa is a great city for walking and cycling too. Most of the sights in the Downtown area are within walking distance of each other. Taxis, tour buses and riverboats are all other ways of seeing the city.
Getting from the Airport to the City
The airport, Ottawa International, at which flights to Ottawa land, is well connected by public transport as well as by taxi and limousine. There are hotel shuttle and limousine services available to the centre of Ottawa. Buses depart from outside the Arrivals area. Taxis are also available.
What is good to know if travelling to Ottawa?
- The annual Canadian Tulip Festival is the largest of its kind in the world, and takes place every May through Ottawa and Gatineau. The festival dates back to 1945, when Queen Juliana of the Netherlands gave a gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs to Canada. Today, the festival showcases tulips throughout the city, with more than three million tulips on display for ten days in May.
- Canada Day, on 1 July, is celebrated best in the country’s capital. Major events take place throughout the city, but the focus of the entertainment is (understandably) on Parliament Hill. Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets to celebrate with concerts, street displays and fireworks in the evening.
- Parliament Hill is the first spot most tourists visit. Don’t miss the sound and light show which runs on summer evenings. Half an hour long, the film about Canada is projected onto the Parliament Buildings accompanied by fantastic lighting effects. The show is free and no booking or tickets are required.
- The Byward Market, east of downtown, is a huge neighbourhood, characterised by its open air market stalls. Fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers and art are all on sale in the stalls, while the surrounding shops have become increasingly boutique in recent years. Visit during the day for some shopping or browsing, or at night time for some of Ottawa’s best restaurants, bars and clubs.
- For open air pursuits, the Rideau Canal is one of the best spots in town. Boat trips are available, for views of the city by water. These can usually be arranged at your hotel or at the canal. The banks of the river are popular routes for joggers and cyclists. Best of all, when the canal freezes over in the winter, it is transformed into a huge outdoor skating rink.
What airport do you fly into for flights to Ottawa?
Ottawa (YOW), located 10.6 km from the city centre, is the airport you fly into when you book flights to Ottawa.