Some 1,800 pilots at the carrier and its Swoop subsidiary are poised to walk off the job as of 3 a.m. MT after the Air Line Pilots Association served a strike notice Monday.
WestJet began to park the bulk of its fleet Thursday morning using a"measured, phased and safe approach," the Calgary-based company said. “Everything’s already gotten booked up. I'm not really sure what we're going to do," the master's student said, noting options with other airlines are becoming slimmer and costlier."The prices have become so high. For me, my grandma and my dad to go back it's going to be upwards of $1,000."
As of Thursday evening, 29 flights or eight per cent of those scheduled on Friday have been cancelled. Passengers are now unable to make online bookings for WestJet trips on major routes such as Calgary-Vancouver and Toronto-Calgary until Tuesday. "You can either come out a hero or a zero. And in this particular case, both WestJet management and their unions are at a very great risk of coming out as zeros — and the heroes could very well be the other airlines that are going to pick up the slack," Dee said in a phone interview.Porter Airlines, which recently launched a cross-country expansion, unveiled Thursday it will match passengers' WestJet rewards status"with one of our VIPorter Avid Traveller levels.
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