WestJet to cancel 15% of flights due to COVID-19 related staff shortages.
CALGARY - WestJet Airlines Ltd. is dealing with so many employees out sick with the Omicron variant that it is being forced to cut 15 per cent of its scheduled flights through to the end of January.
“Despite all contingency planning, in addition to hiring back thousands of WestJetters to safely support peak operations, we find ourselves no longer able to predictably resource our planned schedule due to Omicron impact.” WestJet said it will notify all customers with affected flights. For any WestJet-initiated cancellation or schedule change, where the schedule change was greater than 90 minutes or one or more stops were added, guests are eligible for a refund.
Air Canada had cancelled 76 of its 905 scheduled Thursday flights, according to Cirium, while Porter Airlines had cancelled none and Flair Airlines had cancelled four.
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WestJet to cancel 15 per cent of January flights due to COVID-19 related staff shortagesWestJet Airlines Ltd. says it is being forced to cut 15 per cent of its flights through to the end of January as it deals with staffing shortages due to the Omicron variant.
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WestJet to cancel 15 per cent of January flights due to COVID-19 related staff shortagesWestJet Airlines Ltd. says it is being forced to cut 15 per cent of its flights through to the end of January as it deals with staffing shortages due to the Omicron variant.
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