altitude75k

I would fly WJ over being Rouged any day. Great to see WJ expanding more into Europe and hopefully more international destinations.

sokolov

Exactly my thoughts.

Will there be an additional rotation between YYZ and YHZ starting May 30? Or does this replace an existing one?

Mrtrash757

Interesting routing... the price is interesting also.

Indelaware

One doesn't need a marketing agreement for logical connections to exist. One only needs an interline ticketing agreement - and preferably underlying fares which allow for through ticketing between the two airlines.

pinkcat

Anyone at the UK end- Go to NS, its amazing

Symmetre

My thoughts too. It will be interesting to see what happens once they announce routes for the leased 767s. Does anyone know when that may be?

go_around

Airpost have little marketing of their service as far as I can see. Do people even know it exists? It's not like the days of Zoom.

jucstransport

I welcome this in principle, but have a difficulty with the not quite one world status of Westjet. BTW a Belfast route would also be welcome:

If Westjet was fully OW* I would fly on this in preference to others as the short duration transatlantic is really attractive. I am going to connect in the US or Canada anyway, why not NS. Oh yes, no FF points, lounges or status.

irishguy28

All* of those airlines serve only one destination directly from GLA. No-one in their right mind would travel via Glasgow if their goal was to fly to Philadelphia, or to connect onwards from GLA via PHL with US Airways. Getting to Dubai (or travelling further) on Emirates also seems improbable. Similarly, travelling all the way to Glasgow just to backtrack across the Atlantic to Reyjkavik on Icelandair seems counter-intuitive. Most of Europe could, in theory, be reached by connecting to KLM in Amsterdam or BA in London - but would the Canadian traveller really want a ticket that required stops in Halifax, Glasgow, and then Amsterdam or London?

(*BA's non-London destinations from Glasgow are holiday charters, and as such could not be bought on a single ticket. Though I really think you would have a hard time buying a single ticket including WestJet and any of the airlines mentioned).

iceblueshoes

It is. I may have to go to Scotland sooner than later then.

I'd like to check this out: http://www.enchantedforest.org.uk/
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I also highly recommend it, and I'm Canadian (although not from the east coast)

I think it's great news. I guess Dublin went really well for WJ that they've decided to expand, or they got a sweetheart deal that they couldn't say no to.

I actually flew from from Dublin to YYZ on my way back from my round the world Asia trip and check-in was a gong show. They'd only been operating the route for about a week though, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
It was pretty bad though in that some of the WJ management that had gone over to train the Irish employees had to man the check-in desks. I sat a few rows in front of them on the plane so I overheard them talking about it.

In any case, I'm curious as to if they'll allow for a 6-7 hour stopover like the Dublin route...

Still wish it was possible to get points though...

hnl808

These may not be the best connections in order to get somewhere, but they are options none the less. Having to go via two stops from canada to the UK are ok with most travelers as these flights may cost less than a non-stop. I always believe having more options than none are better, especially when traveling.

sokolov

Interlining with EasyJet would be extremely nice, but itis unlikely.

And why not continue with Emirates to Dubai and beyond? They don't fly to YHZ themselves, so if one wants to go to/via Dubai, GLA isn't a bad route.

HangTen

There's a huge difference. WJ has scads of feed and flow traffic. Airpost was a completely unknown brand.

The YYZ - YHZ sector is flown as a domestic flight. Some will continue on, some won't.

The other thing to consider is what part of Scotland is, from an ethnic perspective, considered "home" to most Nova Scotians?

Why fly to places others already fly to? This is right out of WJ's play book.

Hyacinthe

I'm hoping that their next european route would be France… I can see YUL-YQM-PAR as a good idea (YQM-PAR is shorter than YYC-HNL). Linking the two francophone/bilingual provinces of the east coast to France would make sense. Especially since YQM has no routes to Europe, this could be profitable.

irishguy28

Flying Westjet to GLA to take up an Emirates flight would require a wait of at least 6 hours in Glasgow, in what would be, for the Halifax traveller, the middle of their night.

If Westjet wished to codeshare with Emirates, perhaps they could do so via one of Emirates' other North American gateways. The longer EK flight would also make for a more comfortable trip (the short transatlantic hop to GLA makes for a very short night's sleep).