WestJet
Appearance
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Founded | February 29, 1992 | ||||||
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Frequent-flyer program | WestJet Rewards | ||||||
Subsidiaries | WestJet Encore | ||||||
Fleet size | 120 (incl. Encore) | ||||||
Destinations | 90 (incl. Encore) | ||||||
Company slogan | Love where you're going | ||||||
Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | ||||||
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Employees | 10,000 | ||||||
Website | www |
WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian low-cost carrier. It was founded on February 29, 1992.[1] It is Canada's second largest air carrier, behind Air Canada.[2] It operates an average of 425 flights and carries over 45,000 passengers per day.[3] It was the eighth-largest airline in North America by passengers carried and carried 18.5 million passengers in 2013.[4]
WestJet has a subsidiary regional airline called WestJet Encore, which started operating on June 24, 2013 with Bombardier Q400 twin-turboprop aircraft.[5]
Gallery
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The head office building for WestJet at the Calgary International Airport
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A WestJet Boeing 737-200 at Calgary International Airport, this airplane is no longer used
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A WestJet Boeing 737-700 at Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
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A WestJet Boeing 737-800 with a special livery promoting its customer-service promise, or "Care-antee"
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A WestJet Boeing 767-300ER
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A WestJet Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Airlines". Kamloops Airport. Archived from the original on 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ "WestJet, Air France, KLM work toward code-share". USA Today. Retrieved 2014-07-21.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "WestJet passengers get bumpy start to long weekend". Peninsula News Review. Archived from the original on 2012-05-31. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ "WestJet reports record full-year earnings per share of $1.78, up 68 per cent". WestJet. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ Deveau, Scott (7 November 2012). "WestJet's new regional carrier Encore aims for mid-June takeoff". Financial Post. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
Other websites
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