Airlines
My Emirates Pass Is Back
Emirates is giving customers more reasons to explore Dubai and the United Arab Emirates with the return of its signature pass this summer. My Emirates Pass turns the Emirates boarding pass into an exclusive membership card, giving travellers exclusive offers and discounts within the UAE. Customers flying to or through Dubai between June 1 and Aug. 31, can take advantage of a range of offers at some of Dubai's best known hotspots by simply showing their boarding pass and a valid form of identification. My Emirates Pass gives customers exclusive offers at over 250 locations including...
It’s Five For WestJet Encore
WestJet Encore is celebrating five years of bringing choice and competition to regional markets across Canada, lowering airfares and creating jobs and economic growth. Since its launch in 2013 powered by two Bombardier Q400 aircraft, WestJet Encore has operated more than 300,000 flights and has expanded its fleet of Canadian-made Q400 aircraft to 47. Charles Duncan, president, WestJet Encore, and executive vice-president, WestJet, said: “Over the past five years WestJet Encore has connected nearly 13 million guests from more than 37 cities who may not have had the opportunity to...
New Options From Brussels Airlines
Brussels Airlines is now offering an Economy Light fare option to travellers on its North American routes. The new offer is the cheapest choice for price-conscious passengers who are travelling with hand luggage only and do not require ticket flexibility. Dirk Janzen, VP pricing & revenue management, distribution and commercial steering, said: “The new Economy Light Fare is a further development of our efforts to offer individualized solutions to cater to the needs of our different types of guests. It is a logical step after having introduced a similar hand luggage-only fare on...
Hahn Air Signs Interline Deal With Sunwing Airlines
Hahn Air reports that it has activated ticketing on the HR-169 document for the Canadian leisure airline Sunwing Airlines (WG). The new addition to Hahn Air’s network of over 350 air, rail and shuttle partners can be booked in Abacus, Amadeus, Apollo, Galileo, Infini, Sabre, Topas and Worldspan GDSs under its own code and issued on Hahn Air’s insolvency-safe ticket worldwide. Founded in 2005, the Toronto-based airline, Sunwing Airlines, comprises Canada’s youngest and most fuel-efficient fleet of over 40 Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. With convenient flight...
Get Ready For Summer
Air Canada inaugurated the first of three new, non-stop domestic services from BC communities with the departure of AC1976 from Kamloops to Toronto yesterday. Today, the carrier is inaugurating new non-stop seasonal services from Victoria to Montreal and from Nanaimo to Toronto. The new domestic long-haul services are operated onboard the airline's leisure carrier Air Canada Rouge, which will be celebrating its fifth birthday on July 1, and are launching just in time for the busy summer travel season. Benjamin Smith, president, Airlines and chief operating officer at Air Canada,...
New Home For Flair Airlines
Flair Airlines says that following extensive analysis, it will build on the success of Edmonton International Airport as its Main Transfer Hub and officially establish itself as Edmonton's Hometown Airline. The carrier will continue to expand its network to/from Edmonton by growing its frequency and network - both domestic and trans-border; announcing new low-fare routes in the coming weeks. Flair will also progressively relocate its operations and executive base in Edmonton. Flair's executive chairman, David Tait said: “Just last week Flair doubled its frequency out of Edmonton...
It’s Broken, So Fix It
Following the release of the Montreal Economic Institute's “Air Transport: High Taxes and Fees Penalize Travellers” on June 21, the president and CEO of the National Airlines Council of Canada (NACC), Massimo Bergamini said the study “confirms what we have been saying for years and what the federal government’s own Emerson report said in 2016 – namely that the so-called user-pay principle is hurting consumers and the competitiveness of our industry.” “To put it more bluntly,” Bergamini continued, “with the changing demographics of demand, aviation user-pay has become...
Sunwing Increasing Kelowna Lift
Sunwing will be expanding its flight services from Kelowna for this coming winter to include a direct flight service to Los Cabos in Pacific Mexico for the first time; departing Saturdays from December 15, 2018 until April 20, 2019. With the addition of this new flight, residents of Kelowna can look forward to three convenient options to escape the cold. The travel company will also be resuming their popular weekly flight services into Cancun, Mexico and Varadero in Cuba. While there, travellers can take advantage of numerous Sunwing Experiences such as teeing off at world-class...