Guest Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 WestJet celebrates summer with new route between London, ON and Montreal Today, February 26, 2019, 8 minutes ago | Canadian Aviation News Provided by WESTJET, an Aliberta Partnership/CNW CALGARY, Feb. 26, 2019 /CNW/ – WestJet today announced it is adding more choice for travellers in London and Montreal this summer with a new daily service starting June 24 through October 15 on WestJet Encore. “We continue to see robust use of our service between Montreal and Toronto and are aware that many of these guests travel to and from London,” said Brian Znotins, WestJet Vice-President Network Planning and Alliances. “We are certain WestJet guests from Montreal and London will enjoy more convenient access to these popular leisure and business markets during the busy summer travel season.” “We are very pleased to be able to offer passengers the option to fly to Montreal with WestJet,” said Michael Seabrook, London International Airport President and CEO. “Montreal is one of our biggest markets, and with the addition of this non-stop flight our passengers have options. It allows us to provide an easy and comfortable travel experience to even more travellers.” WestJet is the largest airline in London, and this summer will operate six flights per day from London, ON to three Canadian cities including Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. The airline will also operate 23 flights per day from Montreal including two times daily to Vancouver, three times daily to Calgary, daily to Edmonton and Winnipeg, 13 times daily to Toronto, twice daily to Halifax and daily to London, ON. Details of WestJet’s service between London and Montreal: Route Frequency Departing Arriving Effective London – Montreal Daily 10:20 a.m. 11:45 a.m. June 24, 2019 Montreal – London Daily 12:15 p.m. 1:49 p.m. June 24, 2019 For more information on new routes and increased frequencies in 2019 summer schedule, please visit westjet.com/flight-schedules-new. This summer, WestJet will operate more than 750 daily flights in peak summer to 92 destinations including 42 in Canada, 23 in the United States, 27 in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America, and five in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 This was a shot back at Air Canada starting seasonal service to Calgary starting June 24th. Looks like a turf war has started in London Ontario between Westjet/Swoop. AirCanada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 20 minutes ago, wizard said: This was a shot back at Air Canada starting seasonal service to Calgary starting June 24th. Looks like a turf war has started in London Ontario between Westjet/Swoop. AirCanada And of course Air Canada Express will continue to offer multiple YXU-YUL flights, but then so will WestJet Encore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvlchange Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 This is now not about domestic travel however, international connections. If you look at the WJ shift the last 12-18 months, they have dropped all direct flying from remote(not hub) airports and shifted to hub and spoke( YYZ YYC YVR). Now why the YXU-YUL.? I agree, it’s a response. So I change my mind, it’s about domestic, the point to point has me baffled. Maybe widebody out of YUL to come? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 AC Express has one flight a day to YUL and was down gauged from 78 seat Q-400 to 50 seat RJ about 7 weeks into service. Encore only has 78 seat Q-400 aircraft with a lot less connections in YUL for WJ then AC. Encore will most likely be flying at a 25% load factor on this route. Makes no sense. Just a reaction to last weeks Air Canada Rouge announcement of starting flights to Calgary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaEH Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 On 2/26/2019 at 9:44 PM, lvlchange said: This is now not about domestic travel however, international connections. If you look at the WJ shift the last 12-18 months, they have dropped all direct flying from remote(not hub) airports and shifted to hub and spoke( YYZ YYC YVR). Now why the YXU-YUL.? I agree, it’s a response. So I change my mind, it’s about domestic, the point to point has me baffled. Maybe widebody out of YUL to come? There is 0% chance of WJ starting any wide body flying out of YUL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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