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
Located just 100 kilometres from the border with Mexico, Tucson is the second biggest city in Arizona (after Phoenix) with a population of over 500,000. The airport serving the city is located around 13 kilometres south of the city centre and is a joint civil-military facility. Between 2009 and 2019 annual passenger numbers had been […]
December 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) now serves Edmonton in Alberta. On 14 July, the new Canadian low-cost carrier began daily service on the 2,700-kilometre route from Toronto YYZ. The route is already well served by Air Canada (52-weekly), WestJet (44-weekly), Swoop (10-weekly) and Flair Airlines (9-weekly). Edmonton becomes the airline’s tenth airport, and this is […]
July 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 +
Flair has recently launched a number of new international routes between Canada and the US. This includes a 2-weekly (Thursdays and Sundays) service on the 590-kilometre connection between Toronto YYZ and New York JFK, which began on Thursday 7 April. Maybe surprisingly, Flair is the only airline linking these two airports in April. Prior to […]
April 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Canada’s commercial aviation industry has been slow to recover from the pandemic as the government introduced severe restrictions, even on domestic travel. Last autumn passenger numbers were at around 15% of the level of 2019. Between February and May of this year that figure had fallen to less than 10%, according to passenger data collected […]
July 30, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America