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2:11 AM MYT OTTAWA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Canada's second-largest airline WestJet announced Friday it would lay off 1,000 people and cut flights due to official travel restrictions against the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic. "Immediately following the federal government's inbound testing announcement on Dec. 31, and with the continuation of the 14-day quarantine, we saw significant reductions in new bookings and unprecedented cancellations," said Ed Sims, WestJet chief executive officer, in a statement on Friday. "The entire travel industry and its customers are again on the receiving end ...

The CEO of WestJet Airlines Ltd. is laying the blame squarely on "incoherent" policy from Ottawa as his carrier cuts staff and flights in response to new COVID−19 testing requirements for passengers returning to Canada. The Calgary−based airline announced Friday about 1,000 employees will be furloughed, temporarily laid off, put on unpaid leave or have their hours cut, and it will chop about 30 per cent of its capacity for February and March and pull 160 domestic departures from its schedule. Trip cancellations and reductions in new bookings began immediately after the federal government ...

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WestJet says it plans to resume flying its fleet of 737 MAX aircraft later this month, pending approval by Transport Canada.

WestJet planning to return Boeing 737 MAX to the skies later this month WestJet has announced that it plans to return the controversial Boeing 737 MAX to the skies – with passengers – later this month. But Transport Canada will first need to approve the flights. The 737 MAX was involved in two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019, prompting its grounding. The crashes, which were caused by technical faults, killed over 300 people. Since those tragedies, however, Transport Canada has said that safety experts have validated design changes for the aircraft and outlined r...