I am really not happy with those who have money just forgetting about those of us who are doing are part to stick it to the US.
Do they really think demand for flights to the US to pick up, drastically, after Trump crocks or the next election?
Uh … I’ve flown their Dreamliners twice and I haven’t set foot on US soil since 1999. There are more places in the world than the USA and Canada. And Westjet covers, to my knowledge, the following:
- Guadalajara
- Panama City
- Tepic
- Puerto Plata
- Cozumel
- Mexico City
- Havana
- Managua
- Liberia (Costa Rica, not the country)
- Samana
- Montego Bay
- Punta Cana
- San Andres
- Tokyo
- Incheon
The latter two are part of a plan they seem to have to hit more Asian destinations, and I suspect that’s what the extra Dreamliners are for. Either that or ramping up their operations in the Carribean.
That being said, even the 737MAX-10 can easily fly to the Carribean directly from about half of Canada (Winnipeg on east) and with a single connection from anywhere else.
I’m going to give Westjet a pass simply because purchasing airliners is a multi-year long process and the deal (and payment) was likely inked and made long before the boycott started. The costs of ditching a deal this close to delivery and retraining people for an entirely different aircraft (the A320 and whatever the Dreamliner-equivalent is for Airbus) are far too high to realistically expect them to do this.
Absolutely. Their entire fleet is (and has always been) 737.
It has been part of their marketing that standardizing on a single platform helps them be more cost efficient.
It is unreasonable to expect them to branch out to another platform.
Right? What is OP ranting about? I can’t see anywhere in the article that says they’re specifically servicing flights to the US alone with these new planes. It also says they went with Boeing to keep things cheap and simple for them.
Well, if you value your life don’t fly WestJet.
