WestJet, Canada’s second-largest airline, unveiled a 2023-24 winter schedule featuring four new routes and a number of restarts and extensions of summer services to year-round routes.

The Calgary-based carrier says the schedule is driven by high demand for leisure travel, particularly the sun routes that have long been a key component of the Canadian airline industry.

From Nov. 12, WestJet will launch new service between Edmonton International Airport (YEG) and Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport in Jamaica. The route will be flown 1X-weekly. Other new routes include Calgary-Tampa, Florida (1X-weekly from Dec. 23), and Winnipeg-Huatulco, Mexico (1X-weekly from Dec. 24). 

Also launching will be service from Toronto Pearson to Bonaire in the Caribbean, starting Dec. 1 and operating 1X-weekly.

Resumed routes include 2X-weekly service from YEG to Mazatlán, Mexico. WestJet will operate 230 sun routes during the winter schedule.

Highlighting the extensions of summer routes to the winter schedule are Calgary-Paris Charles de Gaulle (4X-weekly) and Edmonton-Minneapolis (5X-weekly). Also being extended are 5X-weekly flights between Winnipeg and Atlanta.

“Due to exceptional demand, WestJet is extending key routes, highly utilized by its guests this summer, to operate year-round,” the carrier says in a statement.