Jet set & soar: Boost your travel with WestJet’s 26 new summer 2024 routes!

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

WestJet boosts summer 2024 travel with 10 new routes & 16 returns/extensions, enhancing coast-to-coast connections & leisure travel options.

WestJet has just unveiled exciting news for Canadian travelers, revealing plans to significantly enhance travel options across the country with their early peek at the summer 2024 flight schedule. They’re launching 10 brand new routes and bringing back or extending 16 others, aiming to better connect people across Canada as part of their ambitious growth plan. The complete details of WestJet’s summer offerings will be shared over the next week.

John Weatherill, a top executive at WestJet, highlighted the airline’s dedication to investing in Canada’s travel infrastructure. The 2024 summer schedule promises to offer more affordable travel choices, both for Canadians and visitors from abroad, making it easier to connect with loved ones and key destinations. The upcoming summer will reintroduce seasonal flights aimed at leisure travel, linking the eastern and western parts of Canada, and will include a significant boost in flights to sunny vacation spots, solidifying WestJet’s reputation as the go-to airline for Canadian holidaymakers. With over 75,000 seats flying into Canada each week from Europe, Asia, and the United States, WestJet is playing a vital role in supporting the country’s tourism sector, particularly through its main hub in Calgary and other cities nationwide.

Enhancing Connections Across Canada
WestJet is expanding its network with 15 new routes within Western Canada and introducing 11 new ones in Eastern Canada, including:

• New seasonal direct flights between Calgary and Deer Lake, Newfoundland.
• The comeback of seasonal direct flights from Toronto to Deer Lake, Moncton, Charlottetown, and Victoria.
• The resumption of transatlantic flights connecting Halifax with Dublin, Edinburgh, and London, as well as St. John’s with London (Gatwick).
• A notable increase in flights in Halifax (44% growth) and St. John’s (60% growth) compared to the previous summer.

Dominating Leisure Travel
As the leading choice for leisure travel in Canada, WestJet is set to offer unmatched capacity to popular sunny destinations this summer, including:

• A 57% increase in flights to Latin America and the Caribbean compared to last summer.
• A 56% boost in flights from Toronto to vacation spots.
• The most flights between Hawaii and Canada offered by any airline, including exclusive year-round service to Maui-Kahului from Calgary and Vancouver.

Expanding Transborder Services and Access to Delta Hubs
WestJet is also enhancing travel options between Canada and the U.S. this summer, with a 26% increase in seat capacity on these routes, which includes a 70% increase in flights to Delta hubs.

Key transborder additions include:

• New flights connecting Regina with Minneapolis, Vancouver with Detroit, and Edmonton with Atlanta.
• Direct flights from Edmonton to San Francisco and Nashville.
• The return of summer seasonal flights from Halifax and St. John’s to Orlando, Florida.
• The highest number of direct flights to Phoenix and Las Vegas from Western Canada.

Thanks to WestJet’s codeshare agreement with Delta Air Lines, passengers can easily travel to over 100 U.S. destinations via Delta’s hubs, enjoying seamless check-in, baggage handling, and, for some, lounge access. Frequent flyers of both airlines will also benefit from reciprocal perks, such as earning and redeeming rewards on their journeys.

Overview of New and Returning Services:

• New routes include Edmonton to Atlanta, Edmonton to Nashville, and more.
• Returning and extended routes include Calgary to Honolulu, Halifax to Dublin, and many others, enhancing travel options for Canadians and international visitors alike.

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