Feb 29th

[farmaholic]

Could there be a better winter to get an extra day?

Anyone celebrating a birthday, or some other special event today?

[sumdumguy]

Our uncle in BC celebrates his birthday today. He is 92 and an aero mechanic. He still works every day and is flown long distances in the US for his expertise.

[TOM4CWB]

WestJet:

We took flight on Feb 29th, 1996.
A great leap forward for Canadian air travel –
on leap year day, no less.

Why “WestJet”? Co-founder Mark Hill's Mom came up with the name. We're glad she did, as it sounds a lot better than “ABC Air”.

2004;
Let's fly south. WestJet introduces service to several US destinations: New York City, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, San Francisco, Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale,
Orlando and Tampa.

More ways to serve: WestJet adopts common-use check-in kiosks to further enhance our self-service options for our guests. Our buy-on-board program introduces in-flight food purchase menus.
And after lengthy testing,
WestJet now offers live seatback TV on flights.
(Lengthy testing = the first 3 seasons of The Sopranos).

2006;
Celebrating ten years in style. WestJet goes international. Choosing our first international destination was easy: Bahamas, here we come.

WestJet Vacations launches, offering affordable, reliable and easy booking
of vacation packages. WestJet is soon Canada's carrier of choice to Hawaii.
11.2 million guests flew WestJet this year.
That's like flying the entire population of Beijing.
We don't fly to Beijing yet, but when we do, we'll be able to fly the entire city.

2015-16

Another great year and boy, were we busy. There was definitely a buzz in the air when the first of four wide-body Boeing 767 aircraft joined our fleet. Also, our Disney Frozen-themed plane arrived and we couldn’t wait to let it go.

As the year came to a close, WestJetters across our network performed almost 32,000 mini miracles for WestJet Christmas. And we welcomed 20 million guests. Like we said: busy.


A western Canadian Leap Year Story... very worth being proud of!!!