[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Voodooman

Hope you eventually made it to LAS, and are having a blast.

This tale emphasizes one of WestJet's major issues, lack of flexibility and contingencies during IRROPS. The unified fleet type, and very high fleet utilization, makes it difficult to recover from cancelled flights. Whereas Air Canada has the flexibility to send in a significantly larger aircraft, which they have done multiple times over the winter, to both YHZ and YYT. During the mess you were caught in last week, they subbed in a 777-200, which was able to take the loads from 3 cancelled flights. WestJet just can't do that.

Didn't westjet charter some 747s once during a backlog?