Created by WestJet as a tailormade and brand-new platform to tackle the rise of ‘budget carriers’ in Canada – which remains a hugely fast-growing segment – Swoop entered service in June 2018. Now with 16 Boeing 737-800s and MAX 8s, it will – unusually – be subsumed into parent WestJet’s operations. Swoop’s own operations will […]
September 7, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Icelandic carrier PLAY has announced its first destination in Canada, Hamilton. The airport is 85 kilometres from central Toronto and 115 kilometres from Buffalo, New York. It is also the closest Canadian airport to Niagara Falls and is nearer to other big Ontario cities, like London and Kitchener, than Toronto YYZ. Keflavik-Hamilton will operate daily […]
January 18, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Swoop continues to grow its international network from Canada. On 11 January the lower-cost subsidiary of WestJet began weekly (Wednesday) service from Hamilton to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. The 2,935-kilometre route is also served weekly by both Air Transat and Sunwing Airlines. Swoop plans to fly the route year-round with its 737-800s. This […]
January 16, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The recovery in air travel demand in the US appears to have stabilised during the last month at around 90%, with some brief fluctuations around the 4 July annual celebrations. Air Service One has identified and confirmed 64 new routes that launched in North America during the last four weeks. This included several new long-haul […]
July 12, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Prior to this years ACI-NA JumpStart air service development conference, Air Service One caught up with Kevin Chan, Leader, Network & Business Planning for Swoop. Kevin has been at the forefront of Swoop’s latest network and fleet expansion, so we had some serious questions but also wanted to know a bit more about his everyday life. […]
June 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Swoop has added another new US destination to its network with the introduction on 30 May of non-stop service to Chicago ORD from the airline’s Toronto YYZ base. Swoop becomes the third Canadian airline to start offering this route in the last month. Low-cost rival Flair began 3-weekly service on 17 May, while Swoop’s parent […]
June 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Swoop (IATA code WO) has added two more airports to its Canadian network. On 9 May it began service to Moncton in New Brunswick (from Hamilton), followed three days later by the first service to Saint John, also in New Brunswick. Swoop will serve Saint John from Toronto YYZ with 2-weekly service using its 737-800s. […]
May 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Swoop (IATA code WO) launched its first service to Ottawa (in Ontario) on Monday 25 April. The Canadian capital is now being served 3-weekly (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) from Edmonton (in Alberta) by WestJet’s low-cost subsidiary. The 2,860-kilometre route is already served 3-weekly by low-cost rival Flair Airlines (who launched the route last June). Swoop […]
May 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Vancouver Island lies, not surprisingly, to the west of Vancouver on Canada’s Pacific coast. It is home to around 865,000 people, with just under half of those living in the capital, Victoria. The island has a number of water-based airports enabling seaplanes to operate between the island and Vancouver, but there are also a number […]
April 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Abbotsford International Airport (IATA code YXX) is located in the Fraser Valley, around 65 kilometres east of Vancouver and very close to the Canada/US border. With a population of just under 150,000, Abbotsford is the largest city in the province of dBritish Columbia outside of the Vancouver metropolitan area. The airport lies just outside of […]
February 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Canadian LCC Swoop has launched its first route to the Dominican Republic. On Sunday 5 December the carrier began 2-weekly service on the 2,980-kilometre route between Toronto YYZ and Punta Cana using its 737-800s. The route is already served by Sunwing Airlines (10-weekly), WestJet (8-weekly), Air Canada (7-weekly) and Air Transat (5-weekly), according to Cirium […]
December 8, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Canadian carrier Swoop launched a new weekly service between Toronto YYZ and St. Pete-Clearwater in Florida on Friday 5 November. Frequency is set to increase to 3-weekly (Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays) from the middle of January. The 1,770-kilometre route will be flown using the LCC’s 737-800s and faces no direct competition. St. Pete-Clearwater is a […]
November 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +