There will be one less direct flight to Europe from St. John’s in the summer of 2019. WestJet announced Thursday that its direct service from St. John’s to Dublin is ending. “We understand this is disappointing news for the community and Newfoundland and Labrador overall and we are sorry we are unable to continue this… Read More »
WestJet’s Dreamliner made its official debut when it pushed back on its first revenue flight today from Toronto Pearson International Airport. The aircraft, heading for Calgary, was carrying WestJet guests for the first time. “Today’s first revenue flight on the Dreamliner has been years in the making,” said Arved von zur Muehlen, WestJet Chief Commercial… Read More »
The unfortunate incident occurred on Wednesday, marking the latest in a series of similar events to affect the aviation industry, The Guardian reports. A United Airlines flight, originating from Cancun, Mexico, and bound for Chicago, encountered an unexpected and intense episode of severe turbulence, resulting in injuries to seven passengers and necessitating an unscheduled emergency… 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 safely.… Read More »
A woman found dead in a southwest Calgary home has been identified. As Tomasia DaSilva reports, Christina Thomson is being remembered as a great leader and human. Colleagues of a former WestJet pilot who was found dead last year held a celebration of life at the Calgary International Airport on Monday. Christina Thomson, 45, was… Read More »
student at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs has been arrested for allegedly killing his roommate and a young woman in a double homicide in a dorm room, according to officials. Nicholas Jordan, 25, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of his roommate, Samuel Knopp, and Celie Rain Montgomery,… Read More »
On Oct. 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel at the Israeli music festival Supernova, a weekend long electronic dance music festival, held near the Gaza Strip. Hamas killed 260 festival goers in the unprecedented attack and claimed to have taken several hostages.�� For many at the University of Colorado Boulder,… Read More »
A strike by WestJet plane mechanics forced the airline to cancel hundreds more flights on Sunday, upending the plans of roughly 110,000 travellers over the Canada Day long weekend and prompting the carrier to demand action from the federal government. Some 680 workers, whose daily inspections and repairs are essential to airline operations, walked off… Read More »
A University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student was fatally shot late Friday night near campus, marking the fifth college student death in a week as the new academic year begins. Whitewater police found 21-year-old Kara Welsh of Plainfield, Illinois, with multiple gunshot wounds in an apartment near Main and Whitewater streets. A 23-year-old man, also in the… Read More »
WestJet flight WS3252 was forced to divert to Kelowna International Airport (YLW) after suffering an engine failure shortly after takeoff. The Dash 8-Q400 was flying from Kamloops (YKA) to Calgary (YYC) and was operated on behalf of WestJet by its regional subsidiary, WestJet Encore. The aircraft had not long finished its climb out of Kamloops… Read More »
On Friday afternoon, tragedy struck the University of Colorado (CU) community when a student was found dead off-campus. The student, identified as Jeremiah Park, was described by university officials as “a rising junior” who had a bright future ahead of him. The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) promptly responded to the heartbreaking news by… Read More »
It makes me proud to be a Latina on this campus,” said a student receiving the first round of scholarships.BOULDER, Colo. — Six students at the University of Colorado Boulder are receiving the first round of a new scholarship honoring the lives of activists who died 50 years ago. In the late spring of 1974,… Read More »