WestJet offers the most flights among airlines using Victoria International Airport, flying travellers to destinations including Vancouver, Kelowna, Edmonton and Calgary
WestJet flights could be grounded as of Friday morning if pilots go ahead with threatened labour action, upsetting thousands of long-weekend travel plans.
WestJet offers the most flights among airlines using the Victoria airport. On Wednesday, 14 arrivals and 14 departures are scheduled to locations including Vancouver, Kelowna, Edmonton and Calgary. She suggested travellers worried about the uncertainty consider booking a different flight that is totally refundable, saying they could still use their WestJet flight if the strike did not materialize.Good also advised travellers to speak to their travel insurance providers and look carefully at the terms and conditions of their insurance.
Bernard Lewall, head of the union’s WestJet contingent, said flight disruptions are “never an ideal outcome,” but WestJet pilots will withdraw their services to secure a contract “that will fix many of the airline’s labour problems and make it a career destination for pilots once again.” But it said the company would begin preparations to operate a reduced schedule and warned it would be “a significant reduction from WestJet and Swoop’s current networks.”
In a statement last week, WestJet said its pilots are among the best paid in Canada, but that a contract on par with those recently secured by some U.S. pilot groups would be financially unworkable and put the company’s future at risk.
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