Originally Posted by
YLWflyer
AC has premium service over Westjet. Westjet, especially as a company based in Calgary YYC, for lack of better words it’s Dogshit! How do they call it a lounge. It’s more like a high school cafeteria.
AC however has a far superior lounge in both YYC and YYZ and most places. Comparing these airlines and there products are like comparing apples to oranges.
I’ll fly AC any day even if I have to pay for there J product.
WestJet is building 9 dedicated lounges. Three in each of Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. No idea what they are going to be like. Perhaps they will be "dogshit" cafeteria like or not. We don't know.
WestJet currently uses the same network of lounges that I have access to with AMEX, In Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Edmonton I would chose these lounges over the Maple Leaf lounges any day. Calgary has a nice Maple leaf lounge but its only in domestic. If you in transboarder or international, guess where AC sends you? The same lounge that AMEX and WestJet use.
As I said, I was disappointed they did not do proper business class seats on the new 737 aircraft. If they did it would have been a competitive hard product to AC. AC needs a domestic competitor to keep them honest.
As for the soft product.... The AC soft product on the CRJ 705 or 900 is not much better than WS on most of these regional flights in the West. (The types of flights the OP was discussing). Lately the flights from YVR to Calgary and Edmonton have been airbus aircraft. The catering is a step up but its not spectacular by any means.