WestJet

WestJet will launch four new routes between Canada and the U.S. for the 2024 northern hemisphere summer season.

The Canadian Transportation Agency has given the go-ahead for WestJet to serve the Icelandic market.

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

The evacuations are some of the latest during what has been Canada’s worst wildfire season on record.

Initial operating experience of a recently developed drag-reduction package on a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-800 indicates cruise fuel-burn savings of up to 2%.

Component support and modifications agreements feature in this month’s Contracts and Briefs.

WestJet has chosen Jetaire’s Invicta product for fuel tank flammability reduction on its Boeing 737 fleet.

Canadian carrier WestJet says the 2023-24 winter schedule is driven by high demand for leisure travel, and it features a new service to Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Agreements with pilots at American carriers have made great progress this year.

Alexis von Hoensbroech’s arrival has coincided with a pivot toward leisure travel that bolsters the airline’s growing presence in domestic Canadian markets.

WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech joined the company in February 2022.

Canada’s WestJet Group will shut down recently acquired Sunwing Airlines and incorporate its 18 Boeing 737s into WestJet mainline operations next year.

How recent forest fires in Canada are affecting commercial aviation and aircraft.

A new contract approved by WestJet Group pilots folds ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) subsidiary Swoop into mainline operations.

WestJet Group has appointed longtime StandardAero executive Michael (Mike) Scott to the role of EVP and CFO.

IATA’s real-time turbulence data-gathering platform is up to 20 participating airlines, with ANA and WestJet the latest to sign on.

With just hours to spare before a work stoppage could begin, WestJet Group and its pilots reached a tentative agreement on a contract.

Pilots at Air Canada are close to deciding if they’ll open up contract talks a year early this September.

Air Canada has become ALPA's 40th pilot group, growing the union’s representation ranks to more than 73,000 members.

Summer readiness is something United Airlines says it is not taking lightly.

The carrier’s pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), issued a 72-hour strike notice on the evening of May 15.

Canadian airline WestJet's new Winnipeg-Atlanta service, flying from September 6, will make it the only carrier to operate the transborder route.

Progress is being made in contract negotiations between WestJet and ALPA-represented pilots, as the potential for a work stoppage nears.

A near-unanimous vote from pilots represented by the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has authorized potential strike action.