Canadian airline WestJet wins Heathrow slots

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• Lev441 says:

  30 Mar30 March 03:15

  Shame the Heathrow slot isn’t for Toronto for WestJet. I’ve enjoyed my flights with them over the past couple of years – they’ve always been on time, brand new 787s and More often then not, I’ve had a row to myself in economy to enjoy a makeshift business class seat!

  • Anna says:

    30 Mar30 March 14:08

    The days of makeshift business class! I once had 3 seats to myself on an overnight from SFO which must be the most grateful I’ve ever been for unexpected extra leg room.

  • ChrisC says:

    30 Mar30 March 16:30

    Slots are rarely destination specific (unless they are specific remedy slots) so this is a choice by West Jet to not fly to Toronto.

• tony says:

  30 Mar30 March 06:49

  I suspect Bamboo are picking up the slots vacated by VN, in which case that’s as good as nailed on (subject to border reopening). Wideroe seem to have dug in, with flights next winter already bookable. Westjet do have an advantage on West coast departures because there’s a bigger potential window for arrivals compared to the East coast.

• Dr C says:

  30 Mar30 March 07:45

  Wow never knew about the sell credit thanks

• JohnT says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:15

  Any crystal ball views for Canada reopening?

  • Andrew says:

    30 Mar30 March 09:18

    Only 11% of their population has had their first jag.

    Compared to over half in the UK and around a third in the USA.

    Might be a wee while yet.

    • Sideshowbob says:

      30 Mar30 March 09:38

      I wish the UK was giving away free jags

      • Chrisasaurus says:

        30 Mar30 March 09:41

        Just become deputy PM – you get two

        • kitten says:

          30 Mar30 March 11:27

          must be a Labour Deputy PM though.

        • Anna says:

          30 Mar30 March 14:11

          I wonder how Mrs Prescott is coping without her hairdresser!

  • Chris Heyes says:

    30 Mar30 March 10:02

    JohnT Yes i looked into a crystal ball it told me Canada will be reopening ?

    • Nick says:

      30 Mar30 March 12:09

      Labour Deputy PM gets two jags… but our current PM has bought two A321neos… at much greater expense and (apparently) unscrutinised by anyone!

      • kitten says:

        30 Mar30 March 14:50

        why do I think so much of Covid rules and purchasing looks corrupt? never been so obvious before even though you always knew there must be some….

        What’s he using them for @Nick?

        • Callum says:

          30 Mar30 March 18:52

          Though the Conservatives are the party of the wealthy and big business, and the wealthy and big business are in the best position to capitalise on a pandemic.

          I don’t doubt for a second there’s some corruption (didn’t Cameron lobby on behalf of a friend?), but it seems very overblown to me (a person who despises the Conservative party and its followers so much, they’re a large motivation for emigrating!).

      • ChrisC says:

        30 Mar30 March 14:51

        He did indeed have 2 jags at one time. One was his personal car that he had owned for some time.

        The other was his ministerial car.

      • Richie says:

        31 Mar31 March 11:08

        Looks like Titan Airways are owning and operating https://simpleflying.com/titan-airbus-a321neo-uk-government/

• Tom says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:56

  Just for interest, the Rwandair Kigali flights were operating out of LHR last year after the pandemic hit LGW.

• Jonny says:

  30 Mar30 March 09:12

  Amex Platinum £75 (+£75) credit benefit – does the Dell purchase need to be through Dell Business or will Dell Consumer do?

  (Not sure if the two channels show differently on Amex statement – or if Amex discriminate between them for this benefit). Thanks

  • Rob says:

    30 Mar30 March 09:34

    Doesn’t seem to matter – I have done both with no issues.

• Mark says:

  30 Mar30 March 09:45

  We did a domestic flight with Bamboo Airways last year. Unplanned until a few days before as we reacted to a number of short notice cancellations in February 2020 that saw our return to the UK via Hong Kong somewhat disrupted.

  It was a brand new A321neo and for the very short trip from Nha Trang to Da Nang a perfectly good (and cheap) means of getting somewhere with more flights out. Hardly anyone on it so can’t really say much more, though I would be interested to try them on a long haul especially as their business class cabin looks decent.

• BlueThroughCrimp says:

  30 Mar30 March 10:06

  Liked the J seats on the Westjet 787 on an intra-Canada flight last year.
  Not a huge J cabin compared with BA, but decent service, and the breakfast was fine.

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