WestJet Launches Flights to Cuba
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- Travel and Tourism
- Destinations
- 11 / 09 / 2009
The company issued separate press releases for the St Maarten and Cuba routes, each identical except for the obviously made up location-specific quotes from Hugh Dunleavy, WestJet Executive Vice-President of Strategy and Planning. That doesn't make WestJet's announcement any less exciting. It just kind of made us giggle.
Both new routes have flights three times per week, and both last only until April 29, 2010. Presumably that's the date they expect Toronto to thaw, with all the consequences for demand that would portend. They're promising more "sun destination" announcements in the coming days though, so maybe those will last past the winter months.
It's probably worth mentioning that we first heard about the new routes last week via @WestJet, which also confirmed that the first airplanes on the routes were in the air. Like many airlines WestJet does plenty of customer troubleshooting over Twitter, so let this serve as your official reminder that frequent travelers need to be following their favorite airlines' streams. Even USATODAY is now writing articles about LCC Twitter streams. So we figure we've got at most 3 months before everything gets ruined for everyone.
Source: www.scoop.co.nz
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