Airlines
Sunwing Helps Travellers Celebrate Canada’s 150th
Sunwing will help travellers take part in Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations with the reintroduction its domestic summer flight schedule. Whether travellers are situated in Central, West or Eastern Canada, Sunwing has plenty of flight options to enable them to explore Canada’s diverse and majestic landscape. For example, daily flights between Toronto and Vancouver will be available from May 16 until Sept. 6. For travellers journeying eastbound, Sunwing offers regular flights to three of Newfoundland's airports from Toronto: Monday to Friday flights to St. Johns from June 14 to...
Air Canada Launches Re-Designed Web Site
A more user-friendly and completely re-designed web site has been launched by Air Canada at http://www.aircanada.com. According to officials, the site now offers “a simple, intuitive user experience that is fully accessible across all devices and screen sizes, enhanced functionality and an easier-than-ever booking process.” “Thank you to the thousands of customers and Air Canada employees whose feedback drove our redesign efforts,” said Lucie Guillemette, executive vice-president and chief commercial officer. “The site's new features include an easier flight shopping...
Making It Simple
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is finally moving to deep six its archaic, paper-based passenger booking and ticketing system and replace it with an infrastructure that will vault the industry into the 21st century, reports Montreal editor, Mike Dunbar in this week's digital edition of Canadian Travel Press. Once its fledgling One Order initiative is fully implemented, passengers and their travel agents will no longer have to juggle passenger name records, e-ticket numbers and electronic miscellaneous documents. Now that more and more airlines are jumping on the...
Transat Official Airline Partner of the Toronto Wolfpack
Flying high... the Toronto Wolfpack, Canada's first professional rugby team, has an official airline partner – Air Transat. The three-year sponsorship will see Air Transat providing round trip flights for all visiting clubs and additional flights as needed each season. Air Transat logos will also be featured on the front and back of the Toronto Wolfpack home and away kits, as well as signage at both Manchester Airport and at Lamport Stadium in Toronto, along with advertisements on all Wolfpack broadcasts in Canada (online and TV) highlighting the sponsorship and travel...
New Name, Same Company
Effective Jan. 27, Jade will be officially re-branding its air consolidator division. The new name for that division will be the Air Booking Center. Jade Tours remains the same and this division will continue to offer tour products from the offices in Toronto and Vancouver. To celebrate this change, Air Booking Center will be offering a $20 per passenger gift card when the reservation is booked and ticketed through the online booking engine on any airline through to March 31. Air Booking Center’s B2B site can be found at http://www.airbookingcenter.ca and the same username...
WestJet Inaugurates Service to Mesa
WestJet officially launches the start of service to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport from Calgary today. Inaugural service from Edmonton begins Jan. 21. “WestJet is providing our guests in Calgary and Edmonton even more options when travelling to this very popular sun destination,” said Brian Znotins, WestJet vice-president, Network Planning. “The Phoenix-Mesa market is very robust and WestJet continues to add new service to meet demand. These new non-stop flights connect Albertans to a highly desirable leisure market and offer convenience to those looking to fly directly into...
Business Boost
Hainan Airlines says that teaming up with WestJet this past fall is quickly paying dividends for the Chinese carrier when it comes to making inroads in this country. Hainan began a codeshare agreement with WestJet on Sept. 12, a development that was the result of lengthy negotiations and makes Hainan's service from both Calgary and Toronto to Beijing more accessible to people in provinces ranging from Nova Scotia to B.C., reports Ian Stalker in this week's digital edition of Travel Courier. Throughfares are available. “It's a very good deal for both airlines,” Maurice Heroux...
Transat Tel Aviv Flights Available for Booking
Air Transat is advising travel agents that its new flights to Tel Aviv are now available for booking. Last week, the airline announced it will be offering direct flights from Montreal to Tel Aviv (as well as from Toronto with a connection in Montreal). The new non-stop service will operate twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Sundays, from June 18 until late October. Transat will also be offering an array of packages, guided tours and hotels for discovering Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as well as the region’s many tourist attractions. The new Montreal-Tel Aviv flight will be aboard...