Canada’s airline sector could be on the brink of a new merger involving two low-cost carriers. Flair Airlines and Lynx Air are reportedly preparing to unveil merger plans, according to multiple Canadian media outlets. The Airline Observer, which initially reported the news on February 7, 2024, disclosed that both budget carriers are in advanced talks… Read More »
After spending a week in San Diego without a hitch, Alex Blair and his family were in for a rude awakening from WestJet. Blair and his wife had booked a roundtrip flight from Victoria to California to accompany their daughter to soccer camp. On Saturday, June 29, the day they were supposed to fly back… Read More »
Joanna Chiu was asked to leave a WestJet flight after she made a number of trips to the toilet with an “upset stomach”. A woman suffering from an “upset stomach” claims she was reduced to tears after she was booted off a plane for visiting the toilet “too many times” before take-off. Joanna Chiu had… Read More »
After a brief foray in the southwestern Ontario city, Flair Airlines has paused trips to and from Windsor International Airport as it needed to reallocate planes to busier routes, according to the company’s vice-president of revenue management and network planning. “Unfortunately, during our first forays into Windsor, the market just didn’t really perform that well,”… Read More »
WestJet has announced that it will continue to cancel flights “for the foreseeable future” following significant damage to its aircraft caused by a hailstorm in Calgary. This severe weather event, which occurred last week, has led to a substantial impact on the airline’s operations, leaving thousands of passengers scrambling to adjust their travel plans. The… Read More »
An incident at Comox Valley Airport on Wednesday, Aug. 9, involving a WestJet plane and a military aircraft, is under investigation. “It was a minor incident with a WestJet plane and one of the planes from 19 Wing,” said Comox Valley Airport marketing manager Erin Neely. A WestJet statement confirmed the incident, involving Westjet flight… Read More »
When Javaune Wallen boarded his Calgary-bound flight in Kamloops on Thursday afternoon, he never thought he’d be in for a tense flight. The flight, WestJet Encore 3252, was forced to divert and make an emergency landing at Kelowna International Airport after one of its two engines failed. The plane, with its 75 passengers onboard, landed… Read More »
A passenger onboard a recent Flair flight to Toronto described moments of panic after the captain declared an emergency, oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and the plane made a sudden descent. “I thought I was going to die – sitting next to my partner was the only comfort,” Toronto resident Bhagya Ramesh told CTV… Read More »
Canada’s WestJet has cancelled more than 800 flights after mechanics walked off the job, upending the travel plans of thousands of people over the Canada Day long weekend. Some 680 workers have been on strike since Friday after the Calgary-based airline and the Airplane Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) failed to reach a deal on salaries… Read More »
A flight between Calgary and Cancun that usually takes around six hours ended up being a three-day affair for one group of Flair Airlines passengers. “It was a terrible three days. We’re supposed to take off on Sunday, and they just kept pushing the flight back an hour at a time and wouldn’t tell us… Read More »
Flair Airlines, an up-and-coming low-cost airline from Canada, recently introduced a remarkable offer that has the travel industry on edge: a base fare of just one US dollar on select routes from popular vacation destinations such as Mexico, Jamaica, the United States and the Dominican Republic to Canada. This offer comes after a successful summer… Read More »
WestJet has returned two aircraft to service following the intense hailstorm in Calgary, Canada, on August 5, which damaged more than 10% of its fleet. Returning aircraft In a statement WestJet provided to Simple Flying, the airline confirmed that two aircraft have been repaired and returned to service. As a result, 15 aircraft are still… Read More »