WestJet to suspend some Calgary and Edmonton flights due to oil prices
Posted Jan 25, 2016 12:12 pm.
Last Updated Jan 25, 2016 2:29 pm.
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CALGARY – Fewer WestJet planes will be flying in and out Alberta’s two biggest cities as the oil downturn continues to bite.
As of March, the airline says it will be reducing service between Calgary and Edmonton.
Several more routes to and from those two cities are either being cancelled or scaled back.
WestJet will also be removing flights between Calgary and two B.C. destinations; Terrace and Prince George.
As well, it’s reducing the number of flights between Calgary and Brandon, Man., Fort McMurray, Alta., and between Edmonton and Nanaimo and Kamloops, B.C.
There will also be reduced service between the provincial capital and Abbotsford, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta.
