WestJet has added 60 new flights per week out of Vancouver International Airport giving travellers more options to Canadian destinations and to Mexico.
Brian Znotins, vice-president of network planning, alliances and corporate development for WestJet, said in a press release that the increased flights means the airline will now offer more than 80 daily departures.
Details of WestJet's increased service from Vancouver:
- An increase of 24 weekly flights between Vancouver and Calgary for a total of 16 times daily, with hourly service in both directions (top of the hour from Vancouver, and bottom of the hour from Calgary)
- Vancouver-Edmonton from 50 to 59 times weekly (nine times each business day)
- Vancouver-Calgary, from 88 to 112 times weekly (16 times daily)
- Vancouver-Kelowna from 40 to 49 times weekly (seven times daily)
- Vancouver-Ottawa from seven to 14 times weekly (twice daily)
- Vancouver-Regina from six to seven times weekly (daily)
- Vancouver-Fort St. John from six to 12 times weekly
- Vancouver-Victoria from 33 to 35 times weekly (five times daily)
- Vancouver-Cancun, from two to three times weekly
- Vancouver-Cabo San Lucas from one to two times weekly
As previously announced, starting March 15 WestJet will launch three-time weekly service between Vancouver and Mexico City with the route moving to daily service on April 29.
The service is part of the airline's seasonal schedule for the summer of 2018. In addition to the above increases to Vancouver service, highlights of WestJet's 2018 summer schedule include:
- New non-stop daily service from Halifax to Paris and London (Gatwick).
- The addition of almost 200 flights to WestJet's hubs including 60 to Vancouver, 72 to Calgary and 28 to Toronto.
- Additional flights from Calgary to a number of trans-border and sun destinations including Nashville, Cancun, Dallas / Ft. Worth and Las Vegas.
- Additional flights from Calgary to a number of domestic destinations including Nanaimo, Edmonton, Halifax, Kelowna, Fort McMurray, Windsor, Grand Prairie, Montreal, Abbotsford, Penticton and Victoria.
- Additional flights from Edmonton to a number of trans-border and domestic destinations including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Kelowna, Fort McMurray and Saskatoon.
- An increase of 14 weekly flights between Edmonton and Calgary for a total of 12 times daily.
- Additional flights from Toronto to a number of sun destinations including Cancun, Montego Bay, Nassau, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana and Fort Myers.
- Additional flights from Toronto to a number of Canadian destinations including Ottawa, Montreal, Saskatoon and Victoria.
- An increase of nine new weekly flights between Toronto and Ottawa for a total of 13 times daily.
- An increase of nine weekly flights between Toronto and Montreal for a total of 14 times daily.
This summer, WestJet will operate an average of 765 daily flights to 92 destinations including 43 in Canada, 22 in the United States, 23 in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America, and four in Europe.
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