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The same year, the cities of Thunder Bay, Grande Prairie, and Prince George were added to WestJet's route map. In 2000, WestJet CEO Steve Smith was released from WestJet after 18 months in the position, apparently due to differences in management style; [26] Smith went on to head rival Air Canada's low-cost subsidiary Zip. After Smith's ...
Country City Airport Notes Refs Antigua and Barbuda: St. John's: V. C. Bird International Airport [2]Aruba: Oranjestad: Queen Beatrix International Airport
From the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, Pacific Western Airlines was the primary passenger air carrier serving the airport with Boeing 737-200 jetliners on nonstop and direct flights between Kelowna and Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and other small cities in British Columbia with the airline also operating Convair 640 and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 ...
WestJet Encore also services transborder routes to the US, including year round service from Calgary to Seattle, and seasonal service from Calgary to Portland, Edmonton to Seattle, as well as service to Delta Air Lines' hub in Minneapolis from Edmonton, Regina and Saskatoon. WestJet Encore flights are numbered as flight 3100 to 3899.
All WestJet Link flights were operated by Pacific Coastal using its fleet of 34-seat Saab 340 aircraft. Only the first two WestJet Link aircraft display the word 'Link' on the livery, the rest used the standard WestJet colours. [11] As of September 2023, Pacific Coastal Airlines had 5 Saab 340s painted and operating for WestJet Link [12] [13]
Westjet primarily uses A gates, Air Canada flights primarily use C gates, and B gates are used by all airlines. Concourse A1 includes departure gates A1-A6 (used for WestJet regional non-jet flights); Concourse A2 includes gates A11-A24; Concourse B includes departure gates B31-B40; and Concourse C includes departure gates C50-C65. [59]
On 31 January 2020, WestJet Encore Flight 3107, a Bombardier DHC-8-400 operating from Vancouver to Terrace, experienced a nose landing gear collapse during landing on Runway 33. [ 8 ] [ 72 ] [ 73 ] At the time, snow was falling, and the runway was partially cleared, with windrows of snow approximately 18 inches high along the edges of the ...
In May 2016, Turkish Airlines began offering direct flights to Istanbul and Qatar Airways began Doha flights just one month later on June 1. In March 2019, WestJet began offering direct flights to Calgary, and in 2023, the airline started non-stop service to Vancouver and Winnipeg. In 2024, WestJet began non-stop service to Edmonton.