anonymous Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 WestJet pulling service out of Sudbury Airline says lack of demand left aircrafts operating with ‘half of the seats empty’ WestJet is cancelling its service for a second time in Sudbury. In 2003, WestJet pulled its services from the Greater Sudbury Airport, citing weak demand and high government taxes. The airline returned to the city in in February 2017. Now, the airline says it will offer its last flight from the Sudbury Airport on Oct. 27, 2018. Airport CEO Todd Tripp says he was surprised to hear of WestJet's decision. He says he will meet with WestJet officials this week to get more information. "I have no reasons at all yet," he said. "The Greater Sudbury Airport has experienced significant traffic growth in 2017 and it has continued into 2018." Tripp adds work is being done to mitigate any negative impact on travellers. 'Weak demand' "Although the situation is not something we projected, we will continue to service our customers and travellers with our current airlines," he said. "For us, it's business as usual until the end of October and at that point, we will maybe have something else in place or maybe WestJet will still be here." In a statement to CBC Sudbury, WestJet said the decision was made to end service in Sudbury due to weak demand. "WestJet bases our service on supply and demand and we review our schedule on a regular basis to ensure we are meeting both guests' and the company's' needs," Lauren Stewart with the company said. "Unfortunately demand did not pick up sufficiently over the last 16 months. This lack of demand consistently left our aircraft operating with more than half of the seats empty." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 I thought Westjet was a low cost airline and it stimulated traffic with it's low fares??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeker Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Standby for Swoop announcement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Airline says lack of demand left aircrafts operating with ‘half of the seats empty’ One aircraft, two aircraft, many, many aircraft.....and so it goes.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 They did the same with YTH. I guess you have to produce a bag of cash like PEI did a few years ago. However from personal experience it still doesn’t guarantee departures as booked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internet Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 YAM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaEH Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 tough crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 3 hours ago, CanadaEH said: tough crowd. Indeed. Whatever happened to "use it or lose it"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deicer Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 They need the aircraft for the new Tunisia service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMP Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Standby for WJ Link YYZ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaEH Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, SMP said: Standby for WJ Link YYZ... good call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 WestJet's going to operate a train service now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobcaygeon Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 With WJE in YSB there are currently 225 seats departing YSB before 0700. About 10 years ago it was 50 seats on Jazz. It's not really a big surprise. It was just whether it was Porter or WJE that would pull out. Encore only started basic service (once a day) there in Feb 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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