WestJet’s largest-ever 2024/2025 winter schedule includes Canada-wide connectivity

The WestJet Group recently announced its complete 2024/2025 winter schedule, which includes a 36 per cent capacity boost from Winnipeg and 27 per cent from Saskatchewan.

“Our winter schedule is building on our ambitions to ensure Canadians benefit from a comprehensive network of affordable domestic air service, while providing seamless access to fulfill cold-weather escapes to the most popular sun destinations,” said John Weatherill, WestJet Group, executive vice-president and chief commercial officer. “As we bring more seats and affordable fares across our entire network, we are giving Canadians choice and flexibility this winter.”

Growing Saskatchewan

With a 26 per cent growth in domestic seat capacity, WestJet is making strategic enhancements to Saskatchewan’s cross-Canada air connectivity, unlocking greater opportunity for business travel to and from the region and fostering greater access to leisure getaways through:

• Increasing Vancouver service to daily from both Regina and Saskatoon, providing the option for guests to do same-day returns, a critical enhancement for business travellers
• Increasing Toronto service to daily from both Regina and Saskatoon, providing the option for business travellers to do same-day returns, with earlier departure times unlocking seamless connections in Toronto to eight warm-weather destinations
• Twice daily service every weekday from both Regina and Saskatoon to Winnipeg, enabling same day returns for guests
• Increased frequency between Regina/Saskatoon and Calgary and Edmonton

With 32 per cent overall growth in Regina sun capacity vs. winter 2023, WestJet will offer:

• 95 weekly departures to 11 different destinations during peak travel
• 125 per cent growth in transborder seat capacity
• 27 per cent growth in Latin/Caribbean seat capacity

Included in the winter schedule are enhancements requested by loyal guests to make business travel more convenient for Winnipeggers, including:

• Unlocking better schedules for business travellers with opportunities for same-day return travel including:
  • Morning and evening departures to Edmonton
  • Double daily service to/from Regina each weekday, complementing double daily service to/from Saskatoon
  • Increased service and optimized departure times to Vancouver for same day business return trips on most weekdays
  • Continued multi-daily flights to Calgary and Toronto
• Increasing nonstop service to Ottawa to operate every weekday with business-friendly flight times
• New nonstop service to Montreal operating every weekday

More seats to the sun

Together as the WestJet Group, WestJet and Sunwing Airlines will provide more seats to the sun than any other Canadian airline, across 320 nonstop routes to 63 popular destinations in the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America this winter. With more than 16 million seats available to 37 domestic, 21 transborder, 42 sun and three intercontinental destinations this winter, The WestJet Group will increase its overall capacity by nine percent versus 2023 with growth across all regions including:

• 48 per cent increase in intercontinental capacity
• 15 per cent increase in domestic capacity
• Five per cent increase in transborder capacity
• Three per cent increase in Latin-Caribbean capacity

Domestic growth highlights

With more than 323 domestic daily departures, WestJet will provide service on 71 unique domestic routes, while continuing to enhance east-to-west connectivity across the country, including:

• Significant domestic capacity growth vs. winter 2023 in Winnipeg (44 per cent), Regina (24 per cent), Saskatoon (27 per cent), Edmonton (32 per cent), Kelowna (14 per cent), Vancouver (16 per cent), Calgary (6 per cent)
• A 53 per cent seat share of all domestic air service operating in the West within and between Alberta and British Columbia
• More unique routes between Eastern Canada and Western Canada than any other airline

Leisure growth highlights

On the heels of announcing winter service to Tulum, Mexico and the Caribbean Island of Grenada, WestJet continues to elevate its leisure offering, through the following sun and transborder investments this winter, including:

• Leading with a 63 per cent share of all flights connecting Canada to Hawaii
• Offering the most flights to Arizona and Las Vegas, with a 57 per cent and 44 per cent share of seats, respectively
• Notable capacity increases to Latin Caribbean destinations from Kelowna (68 per cent), Winnipeg (37 per cent), Regina (27 per cent), Victoria (27 per cent), Calgary (10 per cent), Edmonton (Nine per cent)

Beyond providing Canadians with unparalleled access to sun destinations, WestJet will enhance service to its most popular intercontinental destinations throughout the winter with non-stop, year-round service to Tokyo, and daily connectivity to Paris and London via its global hub in Calgary.

Increasing capacity to Delta hubs by 42 per cent year-over-year

Across the winter season, WestJet guests will benefit from seamless access to codeshare partner, Delta Air Lines’ hubs including Atlanta and Minneapolis, providing single-connect access to more than 100 U.S. destinations via the U.S. carrier’s robust network. Flights are available from Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Vancouver.