BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.7B
- Public
- CA
Dow Jones Description
WestJet is Canada's leading low-fare airline offering scheduled service throughout its 44-city North American and Caribbean network. Named Canada's most admired corporate culture in 2005 and 2006, WestJet pioneered low-cost high-value flying in Canada. With increased legroom and leather seats on its modern fleet of 70 Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft, and live seatback television provided by Bell ExpressVu on the majority of its fleet, WestJet strives to be the number one choice for travelers.
Number of Employees 6,152
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Scheduled Freight Air Transportation: 481112
Recent Events
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Glitches fail to faze WestJet
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WestJet chops prices
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Glitches Mar WestJet's New Reservation System Launch
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WestJet Appoints Gregg Saretsky As EVP, Operations - Quick Facts
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MTS Allstream renews two-year service deal with WestJet
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UPDATE 1-RESEARCH ALERT-RBC raises WestJet to outperform
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ISO and the New Focus on Customer Satisfaction
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WestJet Airlines to raise $150 million in share issue to finance capex
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BRIEF-WestJet names director
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Air Canada flew with fewer empty seats in August
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX may gain on oil, but sentiment weighs
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WestJet announces significant fleet-plan enhancements
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WestJet postpones Boeing deliveries
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WestJet strikes interline deal with Air France-KLM
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WestJet suffers decline in June passenger traffic
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BRIEF-RESEARCH ALERT-Raymond James raises WestJet Airlines to outperform
News & Analysis
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WestJet flies from Toronto.(BARBADOS)(WestJet Airlines)(Brief article)
- 2008-12-01
WESTJET FLIES FROM TORONTO. WestJet Airlines marked its inaugural visit to Barbados on Nov. 3. The service, from Toronto, makes four stops (Mon., Wed., Fri. & Sat.), said Cheryl Carter, Senior Business Development Mgr of the Barbados Tourism Authority's BTA Toronto office, adding that Canadians now...
Airline plays a hunch: WestJet's William Lee helps keep fares low by using an intelligent application delivery appliance for WAN traffic over an MPLS network
- 2008-07-01
Growth is good, but WestJet airlines found that growing was beginning to threaten its low fares-based business model. Faced with a costly upgrade for its WAN services enterprise-wide, the airline's manager of technical infrastructure had a hunch there must be a better, more cost-effective alternative. He was right. WestJet...
WestJet Reports Record First Quarter Results
- 2008-04-29
WestJet (TSX: WJA) today announced record first quarter net earnings of $52.5 million, a 75.9 per cent increase over the $29.9 million in the first quarter of 2007. The airline's diluted earnings per share EPS for the first quarter was 40 cents compared to 23 cents in the same period...
Low Cost Airline News - North America
- 2008-04-07
Apr 7, 2008 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines on Apr. 3 promised to rebook or refund its passengers who were scheduled to travel on ATA Airlines, which stopped flying after filing for bankruptcy Wednesday. Southwest has had a code-sharing agreement with ATA since February 2005. Its offer does not...
Low Cost Airline News - North America
- 2008-03-24
Mar 24, 2008 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways has scaled back its capacity growth plans to 5% for 2009 and 2010. The airline said it will sell or reschedule the deliveries of new planes. Mar 19, 2008 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways flew 1.42 billion RPMs in February,...
WestJet Announces Record Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results
- 2008-02-13
WestJet (TSX: WJA) today announced record fourth quarter and full-year 2007 results. The airline's quarterly net earnings increased to $75.4 million from $26.7 million in the same period last year. Diluted earnings per share EPS for the fourth quarter was 57 cents compared to 21 cents in the same period...
Company Watch - WestJet Airlines
- 2007-08-13
Aug 13, 2007 WestJet Airlines said on Tuesday its planes were more crowded in July, the seventh straight month of gains, as passenger loads climbed even as capacity increased. WestJet said its load factor rose to 82.6 percent last month, an increase of 1.1 percentage points from July 2006....
WestJet Introduces Daytime Flights to Hawaii; WestJet Vacations will increase island packages for next season.
- 2007-04-30
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Apr 30, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX:WJA) WestJet today introduced daytime flying to Hawaii from Vancouver to complement the existing winter schedule that begins November 4, 2007. Starting December 15, 2007, non-stop service between Vancouver and Honolulu will increase from...
CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: WestJet Introduces Daytime Flights to Hawaii.
- 2007-04-30
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Apr 30, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- In the release issued earlier today, there were two errors within the schedule: the arrival time for flight WS 905 NEW should have read '10:38 p.m.' and the arrival time for flight WS 922 NEW should have read...
WestJet Welcomes Back the 2007 Travel Pass; Travel Pass Provides Great Savings and Flexibility for Business and Leisure Travellers.
- 2007-02-28
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Feb 28, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX:WJA) WestJet is pleased to announce the return of its most affordable and convenient way to travel - the 2007 Travel Pass. The Travel Pass is available for only $1,700 and can be redeemed for...
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