WestJet is expanding its domestic network with new non-stop summer service between Calgary (YYC) and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. (YAM), North Bay, Ont. (YYB) and Campbell River, B.C. (YBL). The airline is also adding non-stop seasonal service between Terrace, B.C. (YXT) and Edmonton (YEG), strengthening domestic connectivity within Western Canada.
Beyond the four new routes, WestJet is also adding additional flights between some of its most popular domestic routes between Eastern and Western Canada. The airline will increase domestic capacity at Halifax Stanfield by almost 50% with significant increases in flight frequencies to Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, Toronto, Regina and Saskatoon.
WestJet is also doubling its capacity between Deer Lake, Nlfd., and Calgary.
“Adding these routes to our summer 2026 schedule reinforces WestJet’s commitment to strengthening regional connectivity and supporting tourism and economic growth across Canada,” says John Weatherill, WestJet Group Executive VP and COO. “The new routes will give guests from across Canada greater choice to explore their own backyard, as well as more efficient access to onward connections through WestJet’s home province.”
Improving access from Campbell River (daily starting May 15), Sault Ste. Marie (twice weekly starting June 12), and North Bay (twice weekly starting June 19) to WestJet’s global hub in Calgary will connect guests to destinations across the Americas, Europe and Asia, while also offering seamless connectivity for Alberta-based tourists to uncover paths less travelled in British Columbia and Ontario.
WestJet says that by improving East-West domestic connectivity, it is helping stimulate travel across Canada as well as offering onward connections to the rest of Canada from Atlantic Canada and onwards from there to Europe.
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