Sunwing cancelation toon town and Regina

[shtferbrains]

Don't know exactly why but it appears many of these airlines lost the people who used to run them.

Southwest used to have a great reputation like Westjet. They had to suspend operations because they basicly lost track of where there crews were and had crews waiting 23hrs to get a ferrie to their next assignment.
It seems the people that used to know are gone and nobody trained the replacements.
Good people make good companies.
The lockdowns effects are showing up. Probably in lots of places not as obvious as the travel industry.

[RD414]

We were booked on westjet for Christmas Day. Son and his family were on sunwing, same day, and we were all cancelled that day, all rebooked for 26 th on sunwing. That too was cancelled. We all booked for dec. 30th on sun wing and got cancelled also. Now driving to Edmonton this afternoon to catch Flair airlines tomorrow morning. Westjet and now supposedly sunwing have been bought out by Onex Corp. Jerry Schwartz is ceo. Sounds like another mayo Schmidt or Hunter Harrison. Good for share holders but will destroy morale with employees and, if like Schmidt and Harrison, will be lacking on infrastructure maintaince on everything. Hope that part is wrong. We will eventually get to our home in Guayabitos, but this has been a shit show. Absolute confusion with anyone you called who were supposed to be representing the company. Sunwing now denying responsibility and dragging feet on refunds. Westjet already refunded everything. Oh well, had lots of snow in the yard to push,,,Happy New year to one and all.

[shtferbrains]

Onex bought Westjet May 2019.
Westjet bought Sunwing March 2022.

Who ever thought Air Canada would be considered the preferred airline?

It's a new world.

[jazz]

Onex bought Westjet May 2019.
Westjet bought Sunwing March 2022.

Who ever thought Air Canada would be considered the preferred airline?

It's a new world.

Doesnt WJ also own that Swoop line too.

Maybe time for that company to consolidate a bit and focus on core operations. Get back to jets between Canadian cities instead of those Dash 8 antiques.