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WestJet Earnings Soar

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Business

CALGARY - WestJet Airlines Ltd.'s "best ever" quarterly earnings were overshadowed Tuesday by a drop in its stock, as investors worried whether the ai...

'Thousands' Of Jobs Lost In Canada To Cheap U.S. Flights

CBC | Posted 05.03.2013 | Canada Business

The promise of cheaper flights is driving many Canadians across the border to U.S. airports — costing millions of dollars in lost revenue in Canada ...

WATCH: How WestJet Got A Monkey On The Plane

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 04.09.2013 | Canada Alberta

WestJet announced on April Fool's Day that the company would be easing restriction on pets as part of their "furry family" program, and now they're ex...

WestJet's New Pet Policy Sounds Really Good

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.01.2013 | Canada Travel

WestJet's new pet policy looks really good. Almost too good to be true. On Monday, the airline announced that the company would be easing the restr...

Air France Gets Friendly With This Canadian Airline

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Travel

CALGARY - WestJet and Air France have tightened their relationship.A new agreement between the airlines will enable Air France to offer 10 additional ...

WestJet Just Made Flying Less Convenient

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.05.2013 | Canada Business

CALGARY - WestJet plans to reduce how much its passengers carry on, a move the airline says will make its increasingly full Boeing 737s less crowded a...

WestJet Beefs Up Its Service

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.13.2013 | Canada Travel

Canadian passengers flying in Western Canada will see some relief from rising airfares this summer as WestJet's new Encore regional service takes flig...

Air Canada, Porter Only 4-Star Airlines In North America

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 01.25.2013 | Canada Business

Canadian airlines Air Canada and Porter are the only carriers in North America to receive a four-star rating from research firm Skytrax. The latest...

WestJet Plane Slides Off Tarmac

The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted 01.11.2013 | Canada British Columbia

A WestJet plane slid off a snowy tarmac in Kelowna on Monday morning as it was departing the gate, bound for Edmonton. "The nose wheel and the two ...

WestJet Calls Out Rude Tweeters, Earns Customers' Love

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 11.28.2012 | Canada Travel

When it comes to social media, companies tend to have a tough call to make: They can stick to the formal, informative style of corporate tweets, or ca...

Planes Aren't The Only Thing Soaring At WestJet

CP | Craig Wong, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.07.2013 | Canada Alberta

WestJet Airlines Ltd.'s plan to launch a new regional airline next year will help the company build its network of partnerships with other carriers ar...

Which Is the Best Airline in Canada?

Daniel Baylis | Posted 12.18.2012 | Canada Business
Daniel Baylis

I once witnessed a bar fight in Ottawa where a seemingly docile civil servant and a mild-mannered professor were reduced to fisticuffs over their contradictory alliances. True story. But, incidentally, I'm not talking about hockey here folks. I'm talking about the airline carriers across our fair northern nation.

OOPS! WestJet's 'Ragged Ass' Gaffe

CBC | Posted 12.16.2012 | Canada British Columbia

WestJet is apologizing after one of its flight attendants asked a B.C. man to remove a souvenir T-shirt from Yellowknife and wear it inside out becaus...

WestJet's Discount Airline Coming Soon

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.11.2012 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - WestJet says it has a name for its new discount regional carrier: WestJet Encore.The Calgary-based company says the name was picked by its c...

Uh Oh: WestJet Flights Cancelled

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.01.2012 | Canada Travel

CALGARY - WestJet Airlines Ltd. says operations are back to normal after computer troubles caused flights to be delayed and cancelled.The computer at ...

WstJet, Porter Have Never Been More Popular

CBC | Posted 11.06.2012 | Canada Business

WestJet planes flew with the lowest percentage of empty seats in the airline's history last month, the Calgary-based airline said today. T...

Air Canada Flies on Cooking Oil

John Izzo | Posted 09.09.2012 | Canada Business
John Izzo

Air Canada has recently announced the "greenest flight" in the history of the airline. The flight operated between Toronto and Mexico City on June 18 when an Airbus 319 filled with passengers flew with a 50/50 mixture of normal jet fuel and bio-fuel made from recycled cooking oil. While this news was obviously a savvy marketing move for Air Canada, it also said a great deal about what must be done to achieve sustainability in our lifetime.

The WestJet Prank You Secretly Wish Was Real

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 04.03.2012 | Canada Business

Call it the April Fools joke some of us secretly wish were true. Calgary-based airline WestJet scored a big online hit this past weekend when it an...

WestJet Employees OK Regional Airline

CBC | Posted 02.08.2012 | Canada Business

WestJet employees have voted overwhelmingly to endorse the company's plans to launch a regional subsidiary starting in 2013. "There are not many or...

Canadian Airlines Post Shockingly Good Traffic Numbers

CBC | Posted 02.06.2012 | Canada Business

Canadian airlines say they saw record passenger load factors last month, which is usually a slow period for business travellers. WestJet, Canada's ...

WestJet Mulls Launching Regional Carrier

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.17.2012 | Canada Business

CALGARY - WestJet is considering launching a new short-haul regional airline — a move observers says would intensify competition with its chief riva...

Why It Costs So Much to Get Home for the Holidays

Steve Lafleur | Posted 02.21.2012 | Canada Politics
Steve Lafleur

Expanding the availability of low-cost air travel would be one of the most progressive policies that the federal government could undertake. Our outdated airline regulations are bad for consumers, bad for Canadian businesses, and bad for prospective airline industry employees.

Bomb Scare As WestJet Flight Diverts To Thunder Bay

CBC | Posted 02.03.2012 | Canada

A WestJet flight from Vancouver to Toronto made an emergency landing in Northern Ontario on Saturday afternoon after a man became agitated...

Let Them Negotiate

Keith Beardsley | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada Politics
Keith Beardsley

A war against unions will feed some red meat to the party base, but at what cost both short and long term to our economy and is it worth the risk at this stage of our economic recovery?

'Alarmed' RBC Slashes Outlook For Airlines

The Globe and Mail | Posted 10.08.2011 | Canada Business

Citing "the alarming macroeconomic signals" that have been growing by the day, RBC Dominion Securities Inc. has turned more cautious on the Canadian a...