World News – CA – WestJet Ends Flights to Many Eastern Cities

Calgary-based WestJet has announced that it will indefinitely suspend flights to a number of cities in eastern Canada in early November, citing reduced demand for flights due to COVID- 19

Flights to Moncton, Fredericton, Sydney, Charlottetown and Quebec will end in November 2 Service to Halifax and St John’s will be « significantly reduced »

These changes will eliminate more than 100 flights per week or 80% of the Atlantic region’s seating capacity, according to a company statement

« It has become increasingly less viable to serve these markets, » said Ed Sims, President and CEO of WestJet in a statement “Since the start of the pandemic, we have worked to maintain essential air service to all of our domestic airports, but demand for travel is severely constrained by restrictive policies and third party fee increases that have left us out of the blue. runway without specific sector support « 

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