WestJet celebrated its 27th birthday at the end of February having taken to the sky on 29 February 1996 (yes, a leap day!). The carrier has undertaken a huge network transformation. Most recently, it ended all long-haul routes except from Calgary, its original and biggest airport – a real retreat-to-core. Over the past few years, […]
March 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) on 24 February introduced flights between its hub in Calgary and Las Vegas. The 4-weekly service operates each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The airline deploys a B737 MAX aircraft on the 3,130-kilometre route. Flight Y9601 departs Calgary at 08:00 local time, arriving in Las Vegas at 10:10 local time. […]
March 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Porter Airlines has commenced a two-daily service between Toronto YYZ and Calgary on 22 February. The carrier is utilising its new E195E2 aircraft on the 2,680-kilometre route. The addition of Calgary is part of Porter Airlines’ new strategy to develop Toronto YYZ as a hub with its new all-economy cabin jets. The airline recently introduced […]
February 23, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Canadian North introduced a new domestic service on 14 February connecting Calgary and Yellowknife (IATA code YZF). The 1,260-kilometre journey is maintained daily by the carrier’s B737-300 aircraft. It competes directly against WestJet, which operates a 9-weekly service between the two cities through its regional feeder WestJet Encore and its Q400 turboprop aircraft. What they […]
February 15, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Last week saw Air Canada launch service between Vancouver and Bangkok, making it currently the only non-stop service between anywhere in North America and the Thai capital. The 11,820-kilometre route will be served 4-weekly by the Star Alliance carrier using its 787-9s. A few days later, local rival WestJet revealed that it plans to launch […]
December 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
Canada Jetlines (IATA code AU) is the latest airline to launch low-cost, leisure flights in the Canadian domestic market. On Thursday 22 September the carrier launched its inaugural service between Toronto YYZ and Calgary. The 2,700-kilometre route will be flown just 2-weekly initially (Thursdays and Sundays), increasing to 3-weekly in October and November. The airline’s […]
September 23, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Canadian carrier WestJet launched domestic operations way back on 29 February 1996. Yes, 1996 was a leap year. It would be 18 years before it started flying to Europe. The first such route, started on 15 June 2014, was between St. John’s in Newfoundland and Dublin in Ireland, a sector length of ‘just’ 3,300 kilometres. […]
May 12, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The skies of Canada welcomed a new airline last week when Calgary-based Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) launched its first route between Calgary and Vancouver on Thursday 7 April. However, the airline is not quite as new as it seems as it has evolved out of Enerjet, which received its Canadian AOC as long ago […]
April 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
WestJet (IATA code WS) has launched its first ever service to London LHR with the start of 4-weekly service from Calgary on Saturday 26 March. The 7,040-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s 787-9s and faces competition from Air Canada’s 5-weekly service. For Heathrow this marks the second new airline in the last week, […]
March 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Passenger demand in Canada, which saw a significant recovery in August, appears to have stalled in September. During last month passenger numbers through the country’s eight busiest airports were consistently between 40% and 45% of the figures from 2019, when adjusted on a rolling week basis. Capacity at 58% of 2019 levels in October Analysis […]
October 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Passenger demand in Canada is finally starting to recover. Latest passenger figures collected by CATSA at Canada’s eight busiest airports shows a rapid improvement since early June. At that time demand was only at 10% of the 2019 figure. However, by the end of August, demand was up to around 45% of the pre-pandemic figure, […]
September 17, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
After a long period of severely restricted operations, Canada’s WestJet launched a new transatlantic route on Thursday 5 August between Calgary in the province of Alberta and Amsterdam. Initially operating 2-weekly, frequency is set to increase to 3-weekly from 9 September. KLM already connects the two airports with 6-weekly service. The two carriers have a […]
August 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +