darwink
Senior Member
The turn is too long- would require a frame for a 3 a week schedule.
Westjet is only flying at this point to in and out in 24 hours destinations. Requires a bit more logistics and time in the ground to go much further.
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Westjet is only flying at this point to in and out in 24 hours destinations. Requires a bit more logistics and time in the ground to go much further.
trtcttc
Active Member
Wonder how close or far we are from getting a non-WestJet Asian flight to Calgary. Especially a Skyteam partner that will have good connectivity.
Beltline_B
Senior Member
March numbers are out. A 1.4% increase over last year. It's not much of an increase, but decent for the time of year.
Beltline_B
Senior Member
A decrease of 3.2% on domestic, but Transborder and International showing big increases.
Still behind 2019 for the three months, but ahead of 2023 numbers, and 2023 overall is the record. Last year the summer months crushed 2019's summer numbers, it'll be interesting to see how it is this year.
| Month | 2019 | 2023 | 2024 | |||
| January | 1,388,240 | 1,226,098 | 1,320,079 | |||
| February | 1,341,673 | 1,190,423 | 1,333,487 | |||
| March | 1,484,223 | 1,392,200 | 1,411,657 | |||
| April | 1,414,975 | 1,385,673 | ||||
| May | 1,460,073 | 1,557,941 | ||||
| June | 1,576,650 | 1,739,011 | ||||
| July | 1,778,991 | 1,936,088 | ||||
| August | 1,795,475 | 1,949,890 | ||||
| September | 1,530,826 | 1,726,143 | ||||
| October | 1,453,152 | 1,634,135 | ||||
| November | 1,292,476 | 1,337,293 | ||||
| December | 1,441,026 | 1,319,703 |
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Chowda7
Active Member
WestJet adds six Asian destinations to its network as code-share deal grows
WestJet is adding six cities across four Asian countries to its network, not long after announcing direct flights from Calgary to Iceland.
calgaryherald.com
Golfing guy
Active Member
To me it’s a poorly written headline. It’s not actually new flights just code shares on existing Korean Air flights (and a KE codeshare on WS YYC/Seoul flight)WestJet adds six Asian destinations to its network as code-share deal grows
WestJet is adding six cities across four Asian countries to its network, not long after announcing direct flights from Calgary to Iceland.
Chowda7
Active Member
WestJet announces more Calgary flights to Tokyo and vacation spots starting late 2024
WestJet has announced more Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights from Calgary to Tokyo, Paris, London, Mexico and Hawaii starting in fall 2024.
calgaryherald.com
AtlanticAvenue
Active Member
WestJet Link will be shutting down as of October 26th 2024, the agreement with Pasco ends and its not being renewed. All routes (YXL, YXC, YXH) will be transferred to Encore which is a substantial up gauging, unclear as if flight crews will be transferred over as well.
Beltline_B
Senior Member
Slight drop over April last year due to a drop in domestic. Huge bump in International travel.
Vanfan123
New Member
Good
. Calgary YYC international passenger traffic will probably remain strong with the addition of flights 
to Reykjavík (KEF) Iceland 
& Seoul Incheon, (ICN) South Korea 
in S24.
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Nawads
Active Member
Wonder how much of the domestic drop is due to Lynx air being gone. They were probably carrying 15-30K per month through Calgary. and being so much cheaper than the competitors probably induced a bit of demand that didn't continue to other airlines now.
That's what I was thinking. There's a base demand for domestic travel, but something like Lynx with super cheap prices might induce travel that wouldn't normally happen.
Albertasaurus
Active Member
The important thing is to see those international numbers continue to increase. It shows Westjet's international expansion out of Calgary is working, and we might see even more international destinations (or at a minimum, frequency increases) if the numbers keep going up.
Golfing guy
Active Member
I’m not sure the additional of Seoul will make a difference. WS only has 7 789’s and last year they mostly went out full. Seoul is just replacing the Cancelled LGW flights and that lift just got moved to other routes. Only way numbers will up this summer is if they expand 737 routes (ie get more frames and pilots). Hope they decide on more Dreamliners in the future (New, used or leased)